PHOTO : I POURED ACID ON HIM BECAUSE I LOVE HIM!

“The woman who gave me a substance told
me that it was a charm meant to endear my
husband to me. I never knew that what she
gave me was acid.
All I was trying to do was to keep my
husband’s love so that he would not think of
leaving me, because I know that my marriage
with any other man would not endure because
of my barrenness.”
These were that words of Remi Agunbiade
(38), a resident of Ita Barika, Foko area of
Ibadan, Oyo State, after she was arrested by
the policemen from Iyaganku Division over an
alleged attempt to kill her husband, one
Olawale Shola, by pouring acid on him on
January 27, 2016.
The incident occurred less than 24 hours after
a similar happening at Oje area of Ibadan
where a man allegedly poured a bottle of acid
on the mother of his two kids for reasons best
known to him.
But the difference is that while the Oje
suspect ran away after committing the act,
the Foko victim, Shola prevented his assailant
from escaping as he ran after her and held
her until neighbours came to assist him in
preventing the lady from running away.
According to Crime Reports the Foko incident
happened at about 9a.m while Shola was lying
down in a room he stayed with his partner,
Remi. In an interview with Remi after her
arrest, the lady, who also got some of the
acid on her skin, claimed ignorance of the
substance she poured on her partner, saying
that she thought it was a love charm.
According to her,:-
The suspect claimed that she did not know
the residence of the friend who gave her the
purported bottle of liquid, saying that she only
met the lady about two months ago.
She confirmed that she quarrelled with her
husband concerning accommodation, since
she already told him that she was tired of
living with him in a room she rented herself.
“I decided to pack everything out of the room
to another place, leaving it bare. His friends
intervened and he came to sleep in the room
with me on Tuesday. My action was because I
didn’t want to have another husband.”
She also disclosed that her husband started
dating another lady in her neighbourhood
about three years ago, and that the lady used
to scorn her childlessness. Remi added that
her husband rented a room for the lady.
Crime Reports was also at the Burns Unit of
the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan
where the victim was on admission. He
narrated his experience thus: “Remi and I
have been together for over 11 years.
My relationship with her caused a friction
between her and my first wife who has four
children for me.
“I used to defend Remi anytime she had a
quarrel with my first wife, especially because
she had yet to have a child.
At a time, I abandoned my first wife to be with
Remi when the first wife cursed Remi and
said she would never have any child till she
would quit relationship with me”. “Also about
three years ago, I started dating a lady.
This caused Remi to be threatening her. She
even went as far as quarrelling with the lady.
Last year, I discovered that my first wife was
already dating another man because of the
neglect she suffered from me. As a result, I
called Remi in October 2015 and told her that
I would have to share days of the week
between her and my first wife.
Initially, she was angry at my suggestion but
later said I should start in January 2016″.
“I went to my first wife twice in January and
by the I returned to Remi’s place, she had
changed the lock and had packed all her
belongings and mine. She also collected my
phone from me under the pretext that she
wanted to use it. After my friend’s
intervention, she returned on Monday, January
25. But I went to sleep in the third lady’s
house. On Tuesday, I went to Remi’s place
and stayed there with her in the bare room”.
“On Wednesday, I was lying down, waiting for
a friend. Suddenly, I felt a warm liquid on me.
As I opened my eyes, I saw as she was about
to run out and I went after her. I raised the
alarm and people came.
I told them that she had already threatened
that she would do an unforgettable thing to
me. That was how I was rushed to the
hospital.”
Shola admitted asking Remi to have an
abortion in the past, but said it was only
once.
The Oyo State Police Public Relations Officer,
DSP Adekunle Ajisebutu, who confirmed the
story, said that the suspect was still
undergoing investigation, adding that she
would be arraigned to court at the conclusion
of investigation.
Ajisebutu warned members of the public
against adopting acid as a weapon of revenge,
saying that the act was criminal.
Speaking on Shola and the second patient,
Abimbola, the Public Relations Officer of the
UCH, Mr Deji Bobade assured that they would
get the best of treatments.
According to Bobade, “it is good that they
have passed the critical stage. We hope that
in a matter of days or weeks, depending on
how fast the healing process is. they should
be discharged home.”




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