The house. Inset: Adeleke
There
was confusion at 12, Baoku Street, Ifako Agege, Lagos State, when a
single parent, Grace Adenike-Alade, inflicted head injuries on her
landlord, Mr. Lawrence Adeleke, after a minor disagreement.
Adeleke said he was attacked by
Adenike-Alade, who claimed to be a Personal Assistant to the General
Overseer, Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries, after he asked her
to mop up the water which she poured at the entrance to her room to
forestall domestic accident.
Adeleke said, “On the fateful day, about
9.30pm, I had returned from a party at Surulere when I saw water at the
entrance to her room. So I told her to clean it up so that visitors and
little children who might be passing through the passage would not slip
and injure themselves.
“Instead, she replied, ‘I will deal with you; what do you think you are saying?’
“Before I could say any other thing, she
had seized the nearest wood and hit me several times with it and blood
started to gush out from my head and body.”
He said he could not fight back because he was losing blood, adding that his children had gone out for choir practice.
His neighbours were also said to have slept and could not intervene on the night of the incident.
It was learnt, however, that a neighbour, Mr. Jolaosho Olaniyi, came in the nick of time to stop the fight.
Olaniyi, who spoke with PUNCH Metro, on Wednesday said he saw the landlord drenched in blood.
He said he had to wrest the wood from
Adenike-Alade and advised Adeleke to report the matter to the police
after going for medical treatment.
Adeleke told our correspondent that he
reported the matter to the police at Area G Command, Ogba, where his
blood-soaked clothes and underwear were taken to as evidence.
He said Adenike-Alade was subsequently arrested and detained.
He, however, alleged that she kept boasting of being the PA to the GO of MFM and that she would be released.
Adeleke said, “To my dismay, she was
released and the Police asked me to go and bring N20,000 if I wanted the
matter to be taken to court or N10,000 in the alternative to settle out
of court. I was surprised.
Later, they said she also suffered
injuries and here was a woman that didn’t complain of any pains from
Saturday when she was arrested till Monday, she was released.”
When PUNCH Metro called to speak with Adenike-Alade, she cut off the telephone after learning she was speaking with a journalist.
“I don’t speak with strangers,” she said.
She later invited our correspondent to the Headquarters of the MFM church at Olasumbo Street, Onike, Lagos.
When our correspondent got to Onike on
Thursday, Adenike-Alade could not be located. Our correspondent moved
round the church, but nobody was willing to reveal her whereabouts.
Other attempts to reach her proved
abortive as she neither picked up her telephone set afterwards nor
replied to the text messages.
PUNCH Metro visited her residence at Baoku Street in Orile Agege and learnt that Adenike had locked up the room for some days.
The landlord said he had written the GO of MFM, Pastor Daniel Olukoya, to complain about her conduct.
He demanded compensation for his material loss and hospital bills.
Police Public Relations Officer, Mrs. Ngozi Braide, confirmed the incident to PUNCH Metro. She, however, denied the allegation that the police made any demand from Adeleke.
Braide said, “The Area Commander said it
was a case of affray and that both parties were seriously injured in
the fracas, which was confirmed by some witnesses.”
She said both parties were invited for an interview with the Area Commander and Adeleke had yet to show up.
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