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. ads
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