1st September, 2014
Cyriacus Izuekwe
A jilted man, Abiodun Atinuke, has been arrested and charged before Ijeshatedo Magistrates’ Court sitting in Lagos State, western Nigeria, for allegedly hiring assassins to kill his ex-wife.
The 34-year old suspect allegedly hired three men now at large and paid them an undisclosed amount of money to assassinate his ex-wife Eniola for dumping him for another man six months after their marriage.
Antinuke, who hails from Ogun State, married Eniola from Ilorin in Kwara State, but they broke up six months later.
Angered by her action, Atinuke allegedly took suspected assassins to 15, Ogunmokun Street, Mushin, Lagos, where Eniola lives after she left his house and asked them to kill her.
Eniola managed to escape and reported the matter to the police at Olosan Division.
Subsequently, Atinuke was arrested but his accomplices fled.
When interrogated by the police, it was reported that Atinuke did not deny the allegation.
He said trouble started after they got married and Eniola started behaving strangely and was coming home late.
He said he confirmed his suspicion when he caught his wife with her lover.
The suspect said that when he confronted Eniola, instead of showing remorse, she packed out of their matrimonial home and moved into her lover’s house.
Subsequently, Atinuke was charged before the court for conspiracy and conduct likely to breach public peace.
When he was arraigned, he pleaded not guilty.
The presiding magistrate, Mrs. Abegunde Davis, granted him bail in the sum of N50,000 with two sureties in like sum.
However, Atinuke was remanded in prison custody at Kirikiri, Lagos pending when he will perfect his bail conditions. The matter was adjourned till 24 September, 2014.