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Married Mother of Three Brutally Murdered By Alleged Lover in Lagos | Husband Demands Justice

Married Mother of Three Brutally Murdered By Alleged Lover in Lagos | Husband Demands Justice

A 32-year-old mother of three identified as Mata Jidonu was allegedly killed by an official of the Lagos State University, Samuel Ambe, said to be her lover. Ambe has now been arrested by the police as Mata’s husband, Sunday Jidonu, a lawyer, cries for justice.

According to Punch, Mata, who lived in the Agric area of Ikogazebba, Badagry, had left home around 3pm on February 15, saying she was going to buy foodstuffs in the market, but reportedly headed for her lover’s house, a few kilometres away.

Her husband said,

“I came back from the court that day around 2pm because I was ill. On getting home, I found out that my wife was dressed up, ready to go out. I told her to prepare coffee for me because that it is what I normally take in the afternoon. She said I had been taking too much coffee and advised me to eat eba that was already prepared.

She put the stew on fire while she went to pick our last child, Laura, from the school. I told her to help me buy drugs along the road. The same motorcyclist that took her to and from the school waited for her outside and took her again supposedly to the market to buy beans.

I slept after taking the drugs. Laura woke me up around 5pm and I asked his brother where their mother was. I called her number but it did not go through. I called her mother, our church and the centre, where she was doing a post-literacy study; they all said she was not with them.”

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He added that she still wasn’t home till the following day and quite apprehensive, he reported at the Badagry Police Division. He continued,

“I was at the station, when the head of the vigilante group in our community called me on the telephone that my wife had been found dead in a bush path. When I got to the scene, a crowd had gathered and policemen from Ado-Odo Ota, Ogun State, had arrived to pick her corpse. She was strangled and stabbed in the leg. Her private parts’ hairs had been shaved off…

I was told that my wife had been sighted with Ambe on several occasions at his second house and that she entered the building on the day the incident happened. He is a non-teaching staff member at LASU. His family members do not live with him in that house. I reported to the police and eight days later, he was arrested.

As we were going to the station in a police van, he called somebody on the telephone, telling the person in Egun language that the fat woman had been traced to his house. He did not know that I understand the language.

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The call logs we got from the MTN office revealed that he had been calling my wife every day since February 1. It was discovered that he had called her twice on February 15, the day she did not come back home.”

Police reportedly recovered some charms from the suspect’s house, while bloodstains were found on the wall of the building.

Sunday added,

“He (Ambe) begged me to forgive him. He said he was not the one who killed my wife and that he was only dating her. But there are enough indications for me to believe that he is behind the death of my wife. Since then, some elders in the community have been threatening me to let go of the matter. I have also been noticing strange movements around my house.”

Confirming the incident, the Ogun State Police spokesperson, DSP Muyiwa Adejobi, said the command had enough evidence to prosecute the suspect and he would be charged to court soon.

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