A
middle-aged woman in Ekiti, Mrs. Victoria Aina Adanikin, has allegedly murdered
her own daughter, Miss. Oluwafunmilayo Rosaline Abosede Adanikin, a 300 level
student of the Federal College of Education, Ikere-Ekiti.
Adanikin,
who until the alleged murder of her daughter lived in Adanikin compound, beside
Baba Ewenla house in Idamodu area of Emure-Ekiti, Emure Local Government Area
of Ekiti State, was said to have put an end to the life of her 22-year-old
daughter on the night of December 7 at their apartment.
Residents
and neighbours in the area said trouble started a few days earlier when Abosede
began to confess to committing some evil deeds through diabolical means. She
was said to have allegedly confessed to causing havoc in her family by killing
relatives and spoiling the fortunes of others with some fetish powers she got
from her mum.
An
old woman, who is a neighbour to the family but who craved anonymity, told the
reporter:
“Abosede had
confessed to killing a relative of her mum as well as causing the misfortune
that befell her father, Pa Titus Folorunso Adanikin, among other things before
we heard that she had died that night. The incident caused a stir in the
community, as the girl actually made the confessions in the full glare of the
public.
“She was taken to
some churches for prayers and spiritual deliverance where she spent days
confessing and disrupting the peace of everyone there. She was even said to
have confessed to be in a spiritual cult in which she already had two babies.
She said she would return to her home in the occult world whenever she lost her
virginity here on earth. She also revealed that she had lost her virginity
recently.”
“Abosede’s confessions were reported to our
traditional ruler, Oba Emmanuel Adebayo (a former Commissioner of Police) who
immediately ordered that the girl and her mum should report at the palace so
the matter could be looked into according to the traditions of the land. The
Oba sent his messenger with the royal staff, but Mrs. Adanikin lied to the
bearers of the king’s message that the girl didn’t confess to committing
anything.
They
said she only had some mental problems. But as soon as the king’s messenger
left, she tied the hands and legs of the girl so as to tame her. Her neighbours
said when it was late in the night, she began to beat the girl in the room
where she had her locked up and eventually pushed her against some planks
earlier kept there by her late father to make doors for his uncompleted
building.
It
was then that the girl lost consciousness. Adanikin then arranged for people
who procured a coffin. She told the hired men to force her dying daughter
inside the coffin for burial even when it appeared that the girl had not
entirely given up the ghost. It was early the next day that Adanikin had her
daughter buried. She buried the girl beside the uncompleted building of her
late father, Pa Folorunso Titus Adanikin. The uncompleted building is in
Mosafejo area of Emure-Ekiti. If you go there now, you will discover that there
are two fresh graves there. One is for Pa Adanikin while the other is Abosede’s
grave.”
One
of the children of Mrs. Adanikin, Abiodun, who also spoke with the reporter,
neither exonerated his mother from nor accused her of committing the act.He
told the reporter over the phone:
“I would have preferred to see
you before we talk about this but I’m not available now. It is true that
members of our community, especially the neighbours in Idamodu area of
Emure-Ekiti where my mum lives with other members of our family, are alleging
that she killed our last born, late Miss. Abosede Adanikin, who until her
death, was a year three student of the Ikere College of Education. However, since
it didn’t happen in my presence, I cannot say that our mum killed the girl. But
I cannot also say that she didn’t do it.
Where one is pushed to suspect
a foul play is that my mum and her sister, both of whom were said to be with
the Abosede during her travails, during the alleged confessions and her
reported mental derailment, suddenly disappeared the morning after they
allegedly buried the girl.
“Given such circumstances, I
think my mum owes us all some explanation, more so since the people alleged that
she turned down the Oba’s invitation to the palace during the alleged
confessions of my sister.Right now, we don’t know where she is; we would have
heard from her what really happenedthat night, leading to the sudden death and
hasty burial of the girl.”
Meanwhile,
a woman in the area, who described herself as a relative of Mrs. Adanikin, said
Abosede’s mum was incapable of killing her daughter. Arguing that it was not
just possible for a mother to snuff life out of her own daughter, especially
when the daughter was said to be mentally disturbed and needing help, the woman
said:
“Aina (Mrs. Adanikin) is not
capable of hurting a fly, let alone killing her own daughter. Please don’t
believe what those people are saying. How is it possible for a mother who has
suffered so much to bring up a child as fully-grown as Abosede to find it easy
to kill her? It is not true. It is not also true that she killed her daughter
to prevent the girl from exposing their witchcraft as is being insinuated in
some quarters.
And
as to why the woman just disappeared the next morning after the hasty burial of
the deceased, she may just be afraid or too shocked and ashamed to face the
people after the embarrassment that the mental imbalance displayed by the
deceased has caused her. Anyone could do that. You needed to be in this town
when the deceased went gaga, saying all sorts of despicable things against
herself, her mum and the relatives. It had been a huge embarrassment to us all
and a big disgrace also.”
Culled from the Sun
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