Woman Kills Step Daughter To Punish Husband For Not Buying Son Sallah Cloth

The police in Lagos have arrested
a woman, Aminat Akanni, for allegedly abducting two of her stepchildren and
murdering one of them because she claimed her husband refused to provide Sallah
clothes for her own son.

Punch Metro learnt that the
suspect killed one of the kids, Nofisat, by pushing her into a soakaway. Aminat
was arrested by the police at CMS Bus Stop, Lagos Island, on October 9 after
discovering she was behind the kidnap of the children.

Prior to her arrest,
seven-year-old Lateef and four-year-old Nofisat had been declared missing on
Friday, October 3- a day to the Sallah celebration.

It was learnt that the father of
the missing children, Moshood Mubo, who is also the suspect’s husband, had
raised the alarm and reported the case to the Adeniji Adele Police Division on
Friday, October 3.

However, after the suspect’s
arrest, she confessed to have abducted the two kids from Church Street, Lagos
Island where they lived.

She further confessed to have also
killed the younger, child, Nofisat, by pushing her into soakaway beside a
mosque in the Orile area.

Moshood who hails from Ilorin,
Kwara State, said his second wife, who he rented an apartment for in the Orile
area, abducted the kids claiming that she wanted to “punish him for not buying
Sallah clothes for her own son.”

He said, “I married Aminat in
2010. In order to avoid a crisis at home, I rented an apartment for her at
Mosalashi Street, Alakara in Orile. She has only one son for me. His name is
Yusuf. She does not come to Church Street, Lagos Island where I live with my
first wife.

“What happened was that on the
evening of Friday, October 3, when I returned from work- just a day to the
Sallah celebrations- I sent the two children to go buy biscuits in front of the
street. That was around 7pm. We expected them till around 9pm. I was shocked. I
quickly rushed to the Adeniji Adele Police Division, and reported the incident.

“Believe me, I and their mother,
Funmilayo, could not sleep all through that night. We were walking around throughout
the night from one police division to the other, repeating the same thing. The
whole Sallah celebration was a sad one as I looked for my two children. Little
did I know that it was my second wife who sneaked into our area to abduct
them.”

Moshood, who spoke while fighting
back tears, added that Aminat had called him the following day, and made a
suspicious comment.

He said, “The following morning,
around 11am, Aminat called me and heard me crying on the phone. I told her that
we were looking for Lateef and Nofisat, she simply said, ‘All I know is that no
one can kidnap my own son.’ I was shocked at her statement, but I never thought
she was the one behind the whole trouble.

“It was six days later when the
police arrested her that she then confessed that she committed the act because
she claimed I was not taking care of her, and I had not bought sallah clothes
for her son, which is not true. She had sneaked to our area, and asked the two
kids to follow her to Orile. This is unimaginable for me.”

Punch Metro learnt that as the
search for the two children continued, which took Mubo and his first wife to
travel to Ilorin, Kwara State to consult their relatives and get ‘spiritual
help’, a friend had called them on Thursday, October 9, that she saw Lateef
with Akanni around the CMS Bus Stop, Lagos Island. The police were then invited
who trailed her movement and arrested her.

The mother of the two children,
Funmilayo, told Punch Metro that Aminat had bottled up grievances against her
for a long time.

She said, “Aminat killed my
daughter. She made us to have a sorrowful Sallah. We were running around police
stations. She said she wanted to punish me and my husband because she was
having issues with us. So, why did she not come after us, why after my two
children?”

The Lagos State Police Public
Relations Officer, DSP Kenneth Nwosu, confirmed the incident, adding that
Aminat was now in police custody.