The
police in Ogun State have arrested two herbalists, identified simply as Quadri
and Adam, for allegedly stabbing a man, Wasiu Balogun, and his friend, Wale
Aderinto, to death in the Agbado area of the state. Herbalists, who are
siblings, allegedly attacked Wasiu and his friend with knives for confronting
them after they allegedly stripped Wasiu’s wife, Mutiat. The incident
occurred at about 7pm on Owonikoko Street last Tuesday. On the day, a teenage
girl, Kabirat, who is the younger sister of the herbalists, had come to
Mutiat’s house, and the woman had scolded her for failing to greet the people
she (Kabirat) met in the house. Kabirat was said to have left the place in
anger.
It was
gathered that Adam and Quadri, came some minutes later to Mutiat’s house, and
started a quarrel, during which they allegedly stripped the woman and beat her
up. Neighbours tried to mediate, but the herbalists allegedly threatened to
beat anyone, who intervened, with charms.
Thirty-eight-year-old
Wasiu, who worked as a vulcaniser, and his friend, Aderinto, a welder,
reportedly came back from their workplaces in the Ebute-Meta area of Lagos
State, and met distraught Mutiat at home.
The two
were said to have headed for the herbalists’ house after they were told of what
transpired between Mutiat and the herbalists. On getting to house, matters
degenerated, which led to the herbalists stabbing Wasiu and Aderinto to death.
It was
learnt that the neighbours reported the incident at the Agbado Police Division.
The herbalists were subsequently arrested and detained. When our correspondent
visited the area on Monday, Mutiat said everybody scolded Kabirat for failing
to greet anyone, but she went to her house to tell her brothers another story.
Mutiat
added that the suspects stabbed Wasiu and his friend to death with poisonous
knives.
She
said, “There was no fight on that Tuesday. The girl came to our house and
ignored everybody. People in the house scolded her for it. “When
the girl left, her brothers came some minutes later. They are herbalists. Their
father is also a native doctor. They came with charms and knives. They beat me
up. They stripped me. Neighbours tried to restrain them, but they threatened
them.
“When
my husband and his friend came back from work, he was angry and he went to
their house. They attacked him and his friend with knives. They were both
stabbed to death.”
There
was no one to talk at the herbalists’ apartment as both suspects had been moved
from the Agbado division to the Ogun State Police Command headquarters,
Eleweran, Abeokuta.
The
teenage girl, Kabirat, had also reportedly fled the area. A neighbour,
identified only as Olumide, said the suspects were notorious in the area for
violence.
He
said, “The suspects’ family worships Osanyin. They were involved in a similar
violence sometime last year, but they were pardoned. The man and his friend had
gone to talk to them for manhandling his wife.
“The
herbalists first attacked the friend, and when Wasiu held them, they stabbed
him too. It was one of us who reported the matter at the police station. Wasiu
had five children from his first wife, but I don’t know how many children
Mutiat has for him.”
The
Ogun State acting Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Abimbola Oyeyemi,
confirmed the arrest. He added that investigation was ongoing into the matter
at the state command headquarters, Abeokuta.
Source: Punch
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