22-Year-Old Woman In Trouble Over Dead Boyfriend
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22-year old woman, Mrs. Tawa Rawan, has landed in big trouble. That was
after she sent thugs to beat up her secret lover, Akeem Ganiyu, 25, at
their Bariga area, Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria, over a disagreement.
The police also arrested her accomplices, identified as Joshua
Damilola, 27, Akintude Sodiq, 25 and 17-year old Ismaila Riliwan. The
fourth accomplice, Abiodun Adeleke, is on the run. The incident happened
at the victim’s house at 91, Arobadele Street, Bariga Lagos. Narrating
the incident, Rawan, mother of two kids, said she had a quarrel with the
deceased and he slapped her and took away the money she made from bread
sales.
According to her, she contacted those men to help her recover her
money and to avenge the assault on her and not to kill Ganiyu. She said
she was still shocked that he was killed in the process. On her
relationship with the late Ganiyu, she said he was her lover and that
she is from Oyo State and married to another man with kids. P.M.NEWS
gathered that while she was still with her husband, she was also dating
other men, including Ganiyu secretly. On the day of the incident, she
said that the late Ganiyu assaulted her and since she could not
overpower him, she went and brought the suspects who eventually murdered
him.
According to her, she actually sent those men to harass and beat
Ganiyu up and not to kill him. “I did not ask them to kill him, only to
harass and beat him. I later learnt that they killed him with a
machete,” she said. One of the suspects, Damilola, told P.M.NEWS that
they did not intend to kill him, but used the machete after he attacked
them with bottle. “We went to ask him his problem with Rawan. Instead of
anwering us, he snatched a broken bottle and stabbed me,” he stated. He
said he went to the bread factory and brought a machete and inflicted
injury that resulted in Ganiyu’s death. He also described Rawan as one
of his customers at the bakery. “I am at a loss on what to do and I
don’t know how I am going to get out of this,” he cried at the station.
Another suspect, Sodiq, confessed that Rawan was also her lover but that
he did not take part in the fighting.
When P.M.NEWS visited the victim’s residence in Bariga, the late
Ganiyu’s sister expressed shock over the death of his brother and said
that she had left everything in the hands of God. A witness told
P.M.NEWS that the late Ganiyu sustained several injuries on his body
following the machete attack on him, adding that he died because he lost
too much blood. The body has been deposited at the Gbagada General
Hospital for autopsy. At the SCID, where the matter was transferred,
P.M.NEWS gathered that the matter was being investigated by the same
officer who investigated a murder case against a Divisional Police
Officer, DPO, in Lagos. Police sources also told P.M.NEWS that the
suspects would soon be charged to court for conspiracy and murder.
Ganiyu’s sister, Nafisat Ismail, who sells bread at his 91, Arobadade
residence, demanded for the release of her brother’s corpse so that he
could be given a decent burial like a true Muslim.
She said their aged parents who are farmers in Iseyin, Oyo State,
southwest Nigeria, were in support of her decision because as a Muslim,
Akeem’s burial should not be unnecessarily delayed