Housewife kills step-daughter over Sallah clothes

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Homicide detectives attached to the Adeniji Adele Police Station, Lagos Island, have uncovered the reason a housewife strangled her four-year-old step-daughter and dumped her body into a canal at the Orile area of Lagos.
The woman, Aminat Akanni, confessed that she strangled the girl, Nufisat, because she was angry with her father, who is her husband, for hanging up on her while she was demanding money during the Eidel Kabir to buy clothes for her twoyear- old son, Yusuf.
While the late girl’s father, Moshood Mubo, lives at Adeniji Adele area with his first wife and kids, his second wife, Aminat, lives at Orile with her own two kids. Only Yusuf is Mubo’s biological child. Blinded with fury over Mubo’s alleged refusal to give her money, Aminat waited around Adeniji Adele and kidnapped Mubo’s two kids, Nufisat, 4, and Lateef, 7, on their way to buy biscuits.
She took them home and strangled Nufisat to death, after which she dumped her body into the canal. Police later found Lateef with her after Mubo had reported the kids missing. She was arrested and made confessional statements. Speaking with our correspondent, Mubo said: “My waywardness led to the death of my daughter.” Mubo said he was living comfortably with his first wife at Adeniji Adele before he met Aminat who became his second wife.

He recalled: “I met Aminat on Lagos Island and we started a relationship. Two months into our courtship, she told me she was pregnant. I didn’t want an abortion, so I told her to keep the pregnancy that I would take care of her and the baby.” Immediately he took the decision, Mubo went to Orile and rented a mini flat for her, “because I didn’t want her to live with my first wife here on Lagos Island.”
He added: “After I had rented the apartment for her, I go there thrice in a week to see her. I stay most of the times on Lagos Island because my business is at Idumota market.” Mubo also explained that he discovered that shuttling between Orile and Lagos Island was tasking and thus told Aminat to come to his shop whenever she needed money for her upkeep. Part of the upkeep was that on every Eid-el Kabir celebration, to avoid clash between his two wives, he would kill a ram or a cow and share it between the women.
Mubo added that two days to Eidel Kabir, he was busy with customers in his shop when Aminat called, demanding money to buy clothes for her son. He said: “I was attending to a customer and I shouted at her. She dropped the phone. The following day, which was the eve of Sallah, she called me again to ask for the money.
I promised her that I would come to her house on Saturday which was the Eid-el Kabir day. I told her I would come with the boy’s clothes.” Mubo said that on Friday night, he went to Nufisat and Lateef ’s Arabic school around 8pm to see them.
The kids rushed out of the class and asked what he bought for them. He said: “That was how I gave them money to go and buy biscuits along the street. A few minutes after my kids left, their mum came and asked after them. She said she wanted to show them the clothes she bought for them.
“I told her they went to buy biscuit. She dashed out to search for them, because it was late. We went to the house where they went to buy the biscuit, but the woman told us they had gone.” Mubo said that when they could not locate the kids, they left for Ilorin, Kwara State, to seek traditional intervention. He was still in Ilorin when he got a call that Lateef was seen with his second wife at CMS Bus Stop. She was arrested.
The grieving mother, Mrs Funmilayo Mubo, said: “Where do you expect me to get another baby like Nusifat? When my husband introduced Aminat to me as my second wife, I welcomed her. Even when she was arrested, she told the police that the late Nufisat and I did not offend her. My question is this; why did she kill my daughter?”
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