If
Sekinat Emiola had known that an extra-marital affair she was having
with Asimiyu Ayantayo who lives at Oke Aremo Ibadan could lead to her
death, she would have exercised some restraint. She left her four
children with a message that after she finished her business at Eleyele,
she would have a stop- over in the residence of Asimiyu before she came
back home.
Unknown
to her, she was saying the last farewell to her children. She never
knew that all the dreams she had at the beginning of the year would
crash like a pack of cards.
At
Eleyele state police headquarters, all her former friends when she was
alive could not stand by her. It was not that they hated her but because
of the stench that was oozing out of her severed head and two hands. No
thanks to her ‘lover’ who thought it was not necessary she lived.
One
of the children of the slain woman, Kausarat Sekinatu who had the guts
to see the head of her once-loving mum was stunned with the horror
before her. She never imagined that another mortal could display such
level of wickedness. Unfortunately, all these could not revive her
mother whose remains were packed into a bag.All sympathisers who thronged the
police headquarters had to cover their
nostrils so that they would not inhale the odour that had taken over the
entire spacious premises. A policeman nearly betrayed his emotion when
he saw the gory picture of the severed head of late Sekinat.
The
two suspects including a vulcanizer looked unperturbed. One of them
who was said to be the prime suspect, perhaps, underestimated the evil
he was alleged to have committed as he was covering his nose and
spitting intermittently as a result of the odour.
When
asked how he committed the heinous act, the suspect confessed that
Sekinat was his concubine and that they have been having a love affair
for quite some time but he denied killing her.
He
said, on that fateful day, Sekinat came to visit him at Oke Aremo and
they had sexual intercourse. But, after the intercourse, the woman died.
I
knew that she had been laced with a killer charm popularly called Magun
in Yorubaland and that any man who had sex with her would die. I
contacted the magun on her during love-making. She wanted to summersault
but I prevented her. Then, she started foaming after the act and fell
from the chair and died. I then decided to cut off her head and her two
hands so that nobody would recognize her. I then sent this man to buy a
nylon bag for me so that I could put the body there.
“At
night, this man, Isiaka Akanbi helped me to put the sack on my head
and we went and buried it at the cemetery. But the head and the two
hands, I buried at the backyard of my house”.
The
second suspect, Akanbi said, “He just sent for me and gave me N400 to
buy a sack for him. He is a big brother in the neighbourhood. I went and
returned with both the sack and N70 balance. I didn’t know what he
wanted to do with the sack.
The
following morning, he asked me to enter into a covenant. I asked him
why we needed to go into a covenant and he said he wanted to show me the
mystery of the world. I was surprised. He then asked me to drink the
concoction he brought and I declined. Then, he asked me to taste it with
the tip of my tongue which I did.
the suspect
He
asked me to follow him to his house and I did. After a brief
conversation, he asked me to come and see something. When I saw it, I
screamed! Then he said: “You are seeing the mystery of the world. Make
sure you tell nobody, otherwise, you will die. I said that police must
hear this and he said I would die. Then, he took me to the graveyard,
dug a shallow grave and buried the parts. I knew the woman very well. I
knew them as lovers.”
How the bubble burst. Saturday
Vanguard gathered that a boy living in the same house with the suspect
heard the cry of that woman. In curiosity, he peeped through the keyhole
of the door and saw the man using a cutlass to severe the head of the
woman.
The
boy went unnoticed. After, he was discussing with his mates that the
suspect was heartless as he saw him cutting the head of the woman.
Incidentally, a security man was standing close by and arrested the boy
that he should lead him to where he saw the suspect. He was immediately
arrested.
The
daughter of the deceased, Kausara spoke with Saturday Vanguard that she
did not know the whereabouts of her mother. But, it was her brother
that called her only to discover that their mum had been killed.
The
brother of the deceased, Mutiu Emiola, a mechanic at Lagos called on
the security agents to ensure that the life of the suspect was not
spared.
He
said, “On that day, my sister told one of her children that she was
going to the market at Eleyele because she sells ewedu(vegetable) and
that on her way she would go to the house of Asimiyu. She did not come
back home. And on that Thursday, Asimiyu told one of his children that
he wanted to travel to Ijebu but did not disclose what he wanted to do
there. We looked for my sister for two days not knowing she had been
killed”.
The
police commissioner in the state, Mr. Tambari Mohammed, insisted that
Ayantayo killed the deceased, but the suspect claimed that he beheaded
her after she fell down from a chair and died.
But,
to prove that he was hiding some facts, he gave another reason saying
he killed her to save his own life because somebody has to die once
magun is at work.
Whatever
is done to the suspects for the murderous act, the bottom line is that
Sekinat is dead and can never come back to life again. What a wicked
world.
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