Aminat
Akanni has been arrested by police in Lagos for allegedly abducting two of her
stepchildren and pushing her in a soak-away, Punch reports
The woman
(pictured above), who was arrested on Thursday, October 9,2014 claimed she did
it because her husband refused to buy Sallah clothes for her own son.
Aminat
reportedly abducted her two step children, 7 year old Lateef and 4 year old
Nofisat on Oct. 3rd, a day to the Sallah celebration, from their home at Church
street, Lagos Island. She lived in Orile.
The father
went to police to report them missing and the police managed to trace the
missing children to their step-mum after a family friend called to say he'd
seen Lateef with Aminat around CMS bus stop. After she was arrested, she
confessed to abducting the kids and confessed to killing one of them, 4 year
old Nofisat.
The
devastated father spoke to Punch about what happened;
"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. continue..
“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.”
“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.”
The dead
child's mother also spoke with Punch
"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. He said,
“Aminat
Akanni is the second wife of the complainant. Investigation revealed that the
corpse of Nofisat was recovered by the Orile Division in a sudden and unnatural
death.
“The suspect
confessed to have drowned the child and dropped the corpse at Orile. The case
has now been transferred to the Orile Division for further synchronisation and
action.”
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