The widow, Mrs Joy Olatunji Shittu who purposely hid her
husband’s corpse in a house since 2013 has revealed that her husband instructed
her to do so, while he was alive.
According to her, “the decision to hide the corpse was my
husband’s dying wish because our family has been under severe attack.
“I got married to my husband in 1973, and before he died in
2013, we had six children. But two of my sons died mysteriously after their
university education; two others got missing, while my two daughters are the
only ones alive.
“It has been a running battle that started after we acquired
a landed property in Ifako-Ijaiye about 20 years ago. My husband and I erected
a storey building but some people in the neighborhood who masterminded the
arrest of my daughters are the ones responsible for all that have befallen my
family.
“While my husband was alive, they tried to sell off our
house because of the strategic location of the building but he refused.
“A particular neighbour (names withheld) who is very
diabolical, threatened to deal with him (my husband) for refusing to sell our
house.
“Later, two of my children died mysteriously and two others
went missing too. My two sons that died mysteriously woke up shouting the names
of these same people in their dream.
“They became very sick and before we could take them to the
hospital, they died.
“At the peak of the crisis, Adebayo hit my husband with a
charm and that was when he became sick. He was sick for eight years.
“We kept taking him from one place to another, one hospital
to another till he finally passed on.
“Because of all these attacks, my husband gave instruction
that if he eventually dies, we should not tell anybody and that he would give
us a sign for us to know it was the right time for him to be buried.
“We hid the corpse of my late husband for two years in one
of the rooms in the house because we did not want people to know he was dead
for fear of them attacking us and selling off our house.
“We did not tell my in-laws that he is dead; they only knew
that he was sick.”
The emotional widow reported that she had been very sick,
which was why she travelled to Edo State, only for her to be told that her children
had been arrested by the police for hiding the corpse.
The case is currently being investigated at the State
Criminal Investigation Department, Panti, Yaba.
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