Mother of seven wraps baby in nylon bag, arrested

Attempt by a widow to throw a day-old baby into the bush has been foiled, provoking a question of what could make a mother of seven children to come up with such a wild thought. TUNDE BUSARI writes.
After being blessed with seven children, Adeola Mujidat was expected to have kept a distance from labour room.
Perhaps, because she is an unusual woman who is known for self delivery, she saw no reason to deny herself additional fruit of the womb. So, she took in and had the baby.
But her alleged inability to determine the biological father of the new blood, according to a source, made the baby her albatross, which she must do away with.
She, therefore, attempted to throw the baby to God-know-where, but was caught on her way.
Saturday Newswatch gathered that Mujidat criminal act was thwarted last Wednesday by a vigilant community leader at NEPA Phase 1, Ijagemo, a Lagos suburb.
The community leader had placed the woman under a surveillance having suspected her countenance when she ran into him.
“When Baba Oloye (the community leader) asked her about what she wrapped in a bag, she lied that she was coming from market. She did not know that Baba was wiser. Baba eventually got to see the dead baby in the bag,” the source said.
Sooner afterwards the entire neighbourhood had got the strange news, thereby attracting residents to the scene. Mujidat was shielded from physical attack but thoroughly dressed down, especially by some women, who had not been satisfied with her alleged infidelity.
The source added that Mujidat, after the death of her husband a few years ago, had put no one in doubt of her alleged love for controversy. She was said to have been connected with different men, which, another source said, could have led her into committing the crime.
The woman, however, denied this, saying she knows the man responsible for the pregnancy.
“But she did not disclose the name of the person before I left the station,” another source at Isheri Oshun Divisional Police Headquarters, where she is currently detained said.
Another reported homicide matter involves one Sunmonu Mukaila, a resident of Ikorodu. Mukaila is alleged to have beaten his co-tenant, Ajibola Fausat at their Araromi residence.
It was learnt that Fausat died the following day, resulting in other residents pointing accusing finger at Mukaila. According to the 35-year-old, he is just a victim of the circumstance due to his encounter with the deceased.
“It is true I used cane to beat her. But I took a cane when she held my cloth to the point of almost suffocating me. She came to me and accused me of cutting a part of Mango tree. I did not kill her. The cane I used to beat her could not have killed her,” he said.
However, Mukaila’s claim could not hold water as the police insisted he is culpable, owing to the marks discovered in the body of the deceased. Thus, he was transferred to the homicide department of the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), Panti Street, Yaba.
After ‘Panti’ was through in its investigation, Mukaila was charged to an Ebutte-Metta Magistrate Court. Magistrate Demi Ajayi has adjourned the case till Novemeber 25 but remanded Mukaila at the Ikoyi Prison.
Police Public Relations Officer of Lagos State Command, Ngozi Braide, confirmed the prosecution of Mukaila and urged the public to steer clear of taking law into their hand while expressing difference on issues.
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