I gave my husband poison because I hated him ─ Beninoise woman........SEE PHOTO

Firstclass newsline~Seventeen-year-old Beninoise woman, Abiodun Ojo,
who killed her husband, Jimoh, in the Makoko area of Yaba, Lagos
State, has said she poisoned her husband because she hated him.
Abiodun, during an interview with firstclass newsline, blamed her
father for forcing her to marry Jimoh, who she said never took care of
her.
She said she had run away from the deceased three times, and was sent
back by her father, who she described as the architect of her problem.
Firstclass newsline had reported that Abiodun had been handed over to
Jimoh as wife by her father to stop her from marrying her boyfriend.
She was said to have given birth to a baby girl, Hannah, and was
living with the victim in their home on Apolo Street, Makoko.
However, she was said to have met her former boyfriend's elder
brother, Wensu, who allegedly gave her the poison to put in Jimoh's
drink so she could marry his younger brother.
Firstclass newsline reported that Jimoh, a carpenter, who was
retarded, had returned home from work on June 19, 2015 when his wife
poured the poison into his soft drink and forced him to drink it.
The deceased was said to have collapsed and died despite spirited
efforts by residents to resuscitate him.
Abiodun, who initially denied involvement in the crime, later
confessed to community leaders, saying she was given the poison by her
former boyfriend's elder brother, Wensu.
The two suspects were said to have been arrested by policemen from the
Adekunle Police Division and were subsequently transferred to the
State Department of Criminal Investigation.
Abiodun said she never knew the poison would kill Jimoh.
She said, "I was born in Lagos, though I am from Cotonou, Benin
Republic. My father married two wives and he had nine children. My
mother had six children for him and I am number four. I did not go to
school because my father did not allow me.
"I had a boyfriend, Papa, whom I dated for two years. I wanted to
marry him, but my father refused because my elder sister was married
to Papa's brother.
"I was at home one day when my father brought some people and said I
should look at all of them and say if I liked them, and I said yes. He
then asked me to go. It was the next day that they took me to Jimoh."
She said she was taken to a community in Ogun State, where the victim
usually came to make love with her until she became pregnant.
She said when she returned to Lagos, she was not well treated by the
deceased and she complained to her family members, who asked her to
endure the hardship.
"On three different occasions, I ran away from home. But whenever I
got home, my father would ask me to go back, saying marriage was
always full of challenges.
"On the fateful day, I went to the market to buy fish for my
sister-in-law when I saw Wensu on the road. He gave me the poison and
said I should put it in my husband's drink. I put it in his drink and
he took it himself," she added.
She said she regretted marrying the deceased because she never loved him.
It was learnt that the boyfriend, Papa, had travelled back to the
Benin Republic.
His elder brother, Wensu, a herbalist, denied giving Abiodun the
poison, saying she framed him up.
He said, "I am a herbalist by profession and I was taught the job by
my grandfather in the Benin Republic when I was a child. I met her
sister in the community and we married legally. She had three kids for
me.
"But when I married another woman, she divorced me and married
somebody else. I did not give her any poison and I have never met her
husband, Jimoh, in my entire life. She is lying."
The Police Public Relations Officer, Kenneth Nwosu, said the suspects
would soon be charged to court.
Firstclassnewsline.net