Detectives attached to Ajegunle
Police Station, have arrested a man, who allegedly poured a bottle of sniper
into his neighbour’s pot of soup on Tuesday, while it was on the fire.
The suspect, Daniel, was alleged to
have attempted to wipe out the family of three with the dangerous insecticide
because his neighbour’s wife, Saidat, was always insulting him for not meeting
up with his electricity bill payment.
Saidat was cooking, when she briefly
stepped out to buy something. Before she returned, Daniel had doused the soup
with a bottle of sniper.
Saidat, her husband and their only
child, would probably have died, if not because she was quick witted enough to
smell the stench of the sniper.
Daniel said: “It was the devil that made
me to pour sniper into my neighbour’s pot of soup. I don’t have any problem
with my neighbour, Shakiru, but his wife, Saidat, was always insulting me over
electricity bill. I don't know what came over me; I decided to pour sniper into
the pot of soup to punish her. I’m sorry. I regretted what I did and what I
almost caused.”
It was gathered that after Saidat
smelt the offensive stench from the soup, she knew something was wrong. She
immediately suspected Daniel, because he was the only tenant at home, aside
from her.
When she perceived her soup had been
tampered with, she alerted the landlady of the storey building above their
apartment. When Saidat was asked whom
she suspected of dousing her soup with sniper, she fingered Daniel.
The matter was taken before the traditional
ruler of Aiyetoro 1 Community, Ajegunle, Baale Saheed Fakunle. After
listening to the matter, Fakunle handed Daniel and Saidat over to Ajegunle
Police Station.
A police source said: “Saidat was
cooking her soup after her husband; Shakiru had gone to work on Tuesday
afternoon. Four tenants live on the ground floor of the one story building,
located at Baale Aiyetoro Street. On that fateful Tuesday, only Sadiat and
Daniel were at home. The Saidat went outside to buy something and before she returned,
Daniel has doused her soup with sniper.”
When she returned and opened the
soup, she immediately smelt the changed aroma of the soup. When her husband, Shakiru returned, Saidat
revealed her suspicion.
Mr. Taiye Aroyewun, who is landlord
of the ground floor, where both Daniel and Saidat live, condemned Daniel’s
action.
Aroyewun, who said that Daniel sell
CDs at Boundary Market, Ajegunle, said: “Daniel must be mad! He said he had no
quarrel with his neighbours, aside from the electricity bill problem the
previous day. So why did he want to kill a whole family? Apart from Saidat’s
family, friends might want to eat out of the soup. Daniel would have killed so
many people, if not that the woman was vigilant.”
Aroyewun, who described Daniel as
strange, said the man was aging and refused to get married. He said that Daniel
also doesn’t even cook.
He said that he only accepted one
year rent from Daniel, adding that his rent would expire this August ending. He
wasn’t going to accept Daniel to renew his rent, said Aroyewun.
Aroyewun said: “Since Daniel was
caught, he had been begging. He had been trying to settle the matter, but everyone
refused to listen to him. He is a wicked man! If I forgive him today, he could
chop off my head tomorrow. Let him go to SCID and explain himself.”
It was gathered that the incident
caused panic in Ajegunle, with husbands warning their wives, never to leave pot
of soup or edibles, unattended.
The Divisional Police Officer (DPO),
in charge of Ajegunle Police Station, Mr. Uman Gusau, a Chief Superintendent of
Police (CSP), was said to have transferred the case to the State Criminal
Investigations Department (SCID), Panti, Yaba, for further investigations.
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