Fortune and Eki were not only the best of friends, they were from the
same village. An impregnable line was, however, drawn recently when Eki
caught Fortune pants down with her husband.
A mother of three daughters escaped death recently by the whiskers after
being descended upon heavily by street urchins in her neighbourhood.
Her offence: She was allegedly having sexual relations with her friend’s
husband. Fortune until very recently lived with her three daughters in a
room at Bolumole area of Ifo Local Government Council of Ogun State.
She is a divorcee and teaches at a private
elementary school
at Oju-Oore area of Sango Ota, in Ado-Odo/ Ota Local Government Area of
the state. Fortune was said to have lost her marriage in 2005 when she
was caught having an affair with her husband’s colleague.
The situation made the husband to abscond. This later led to the death
of the marriage as her husband relocated to the northern part of the
country. Then, their abode was at Alapere area of Ketu, Lagos State. As a
result of this she also relocated from Ketu to Ifo with her three
daughters.
There she resettled and got her current work as
a teacher.
At her new place of abode, Fortune, an indigene of Ikom, Cross River
State,soon became friends with Eki who is from the same town with her.
Eki, who has an eight-yearold son, lives with her banker husband in the
town. Eki’s husband,Azu, is from Asaba in Delta State. Fortune, who
lived in a room and parlour at Ifo, was two just blocks apart from Eki’s
house. While Fortune wakes up quite early to go to work every day, her
friend, Eki, is a full time house wife and shealso looks after the
family’s poultry in their own compound.
Since Azu works at a bank around Lagos Island,he used to leave home very
early each day. But,sometime last year, Azu was transferred to the
Allen Avenue, Ikeja, Lagos State branch of his bank. As a result of
this, Eki pleaded with him to help give her friend a ride to Sango while
going to work every morning.
The man obliged and every morning that he while going to work, he would
give Fortune a ride to Sango-Ota. In no time,
something else
happened. Azu and Fortune began an illicit relationship.
This had been on for almost a year now. But one Sunday afternoon in
January this year, Fortune told Eki in company of her husband that she
was relocating from Ifo. It was a shockto Eki. Fortune told the couple
that she was leaving the area because she had been transferred from Ota
to Iju area of Lagos State. Unknown to Eki, however, her husband had
just secured a 2-bedrom
apartment for her friend, Fortune, at Dalemo, in Sango-Ota.
The day Fortune was moving her property out of the house, Eki reportedly
wept like a baby. Eki had prevailed on Fortune to give her, her new
address but the latter kept on promising she would come and take Eki
there. She never did. However, both women vowed to continue their
friendship irrespective of the distance.
Around the time Fortune moved out of Ifo, Azu also reportedly informed his wife that his
schedule of work in the office had changed in such a way that he had to spend the weekend in the office. The wife took the news in good
faith and all had been well since then.
But trouble started around late February, 2013,when
another friend
of Eki reportedly informed her that she saw her husband and a woman,
hand in hand, shopping together on a Saturday at Shoprite, Alausa,
Lagos.
A couple of weeks later, one of Eki’s in-laws also shocked the woman,
but this time, he claimed he saw her husband with Fortune feeding each
other at a drinking joint around Abule-Egba area of Lagos State on a
Saturday night. Eki, apparently too afraid to confront herhusband with
the story, decided to trace his movements, hoping to get to the root of
the matter.
On Saturday, April 19, 2013, Eki’s in-law, a petrol attendant around
Abule-Egba-Fagba Road, again sighted Azu and Fortune at the same beer
joint and hurriedly put a call to Eki. Within a short time, she
reportedly arrived at the area, and saw her husband feeding Fortune with
a glass of drink. Barely an hour after Eki arrived there; Azu and
Fortune entered the car and drove off. Fortune’s new abode is reported
to be a stone throw to the drinking joint.
As the two of them drove off, Eki and her in-law reported rushed on a motorcycle and traced them to the place. Within
minutes,
the door to Fortune’s flat was shut and the light went out. That was around 8:45pm.
Moments later, Eki and her petrol attendant in-law barged into the flat and knocked at the door. It was Azu who reportedly came to open the door.
He was shocked to see his wife there.Eki reportedly brushed past her
husband and made for Fortune, her friend. She was wrappedin a towel in
the living room.
“Twice I was told of the relationship between Fortune and my husband but
I never took it serious, until my sister-in-law’s brother, who works
around there also told me about it.
“When he saw them again that Saturday, he called me and I took a
motorcycle from Ifo down to Abule Egba that I could catch them there.
They were still there when I arrived but I hid myself at the filling
station where the boyworks.
When my husband and Fortune drove off, we chartered another
motorcycle to follow them and we eventually traced them to the house my
husband rented for her and where both of them always spend the weekend,”
Eki narrated. With the shout for help, neighbour reportedly pounced on
Fortune and gave her the beating of her life. She was also reportedly
stripped almost naked in the process.
Azu, on his part, hurriedly got dressed and drove out of the place, but
not without pebbleshurled at his car’s windscreen. A shop owner in the
area, Fidelis, told Saturday Mirror that but for the intervention of
people, Fortune would have been lynched by the irate mob that gathered
at the scene.
“I did not know why the woman’s (Fortune) neighbours treated her like
that, but the wife of the man and the young man that came with her did
strip her almost naked and damaged most of the electrical appliances in
the house. When the woman told the people what happened, some area boys
in the area started beating Fortune and almost killed her,” Fidelis
added.
Fortune reportedly left the house with the onlykid living with her. She
has not been seen sincethen. It was also gathered that Azu had travelled
to his village while Eki had gone there to meet the family.