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See What Chief Allegedly Did to Heavily Pregnant Woman in Lagos

See What Chief Allegedly Did to Heavily Pregnant Woman in Lagos

A chief in the Ijegun area of Lagos has been arrested for allegedly assaulting a heavily pregnant bread seller, Bukola Olasunkanmi, in the Isheri-Oshun area of the state.

According to Punch, the Chief, Ajiroba, and his thugs brutally flogged the seven-month-old pregnant woman for mediating in an argument involving some levy collectors and another bread seller at the Ijegun bus stop.

Narrating her ordeal, the victim said,

“I work as a mobile bread vendor, and the assault happened on March 11, 2016, while I was supplying bread to a customer at the Ijegun bus stop. At a point in the transaction, I noticed that another bread vendor had thrown her wooden tray on the bonnet of my car.

I realised that she was being harassed by some local levy collectors operating in the area. I intervened by pleading with the collectors to let her go as she strapped a baby to her back, I said, ‘Leave this woman alone.’

It was at this point that one Chief Ajiroba, accompanied by four hoodlums, emerged from a corner with a cane and began to flog me. I was beaten like a criminal at the bus stop despite being pregnant.

I ran to the Isheri Osun division and reported the matter. Policemen thereafter followed me to the chief and he was detained that day. Although the chief has apologised to me, my fear is that strange people have been visiting my residence since the encounter.

Most of them warned me that my life was no longer safe as I dared to report a chief to the police. I want the police to help me out and ensure that justice is served in this matter. I go almost every day to the Igando General Hospital for checkups.”

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Reacting to the allegations, Ajiroba said he didn’t know Olasunkanmi before that day, adding that Olasunkanmi and the bread seller were fighting and he flogged both of them.

“I did not know she was pregnant. I did not know her before that day. I saw two women fighting at the bus stop and I flogged both of them. I have been begging her to drop this matter,” he said.

The Police Public Relations Officer, SP Dolapo Badmos, said investigation is ongoing.

View Comments (21)
  • Justice should please be served. All these lagos chiefs believe they are above the law just because they are title holders Mtscheeeeeeewwww.

  • Imagine the stupid Chief. What insolence. Nigerians are crazy. Your life is in danger no doubt but this should not be taken lightly.

  • This local chief and all his cohorts should be arrested and be made to pay for this horrible act. Whatever happens to our sense of communal service, flogging a woman is unaccepted let alone a pregnant one.

  • Why will anybody think of doing that a pregnant woman for that matter. Smh. What a wicked world. Chief ni chief ko

  • What investigation? Thought the man agreed he actually flogged them? So what investigation is the police talking about?

  • You didn’t know she was pregnant… haba! 7 months belle dey hide? How brutal people can be!

    • can you imaging the nonsense, even if they where fighting who gave him the right to flog them? stupid man. na God go punish you wicked he goat

  • He flogged two women fighting because that’s how to separate a fight in his village.I hope the publicity of this matter will ensure justice is done

  • What a chief! Na so they go dey brutalise people thinking they ate above the law.I hope he is severely dealt with to serve as a lesson to others

  • This man must be an addicted wife physical abuser. How can you just pick a cane and start flogging a woman you don’t know. I hope justice prevails. And I also hope his thugs don’t murder d pregnant woman o

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