Pa Ayoola Oyesiji and the drowned
step daughter
A
62-year-old retired lecturer, Pa
Ayoola Oyesiji, (pictured above) has been arrested by policemen from Agugu
Division of the Oyo State Police Command for drowning his two-year-old
stepdaughter in a bucket of
water, thereby killing her.
The incident, which occurred at Atipe area of Ibadan in
the evening of Friday, 16 Novemeber, was reported to have been the aftermath of
a quarrel between the man and his 22-year-old wife, Barakat Akeem, over
sex.
The young woman, who is currently nursing a
two-month-old baby for the retired lecturer, was said
to have given birth to the deceased child before she married him in December
2011.
Sunday Tribune gathered that the woman lived in the man’s family
house at Atipe area, and that the man used to come there to visit and to carry
out his conjugal duties.
However, things were said to have gone awry, when the
man, who came to his wife on Friday, approached her for sex, and the woman
refused, claiming that her baby was still young, in addition to the fact that
she was in her
menstruation.
Pa Oyesiji, who was said to have retired from the
University of Ilorin in June, reportedly got infuriated and tried to pull his
wife back into the room, but the woman fled, dropping her wrapper in the
process.
Her two-year-old daughter, Aishat Mohammed, was said to
be sleeping in the room then with her two-month-old baby being tended by a
neighbour.
The woman reportedly raised the alarm which made
neighbours to rush out of their rooms.
She pleaded with them to help her bring her daughter,
Aishat, out of the room where her husband had remained.
However, their attempts to do so proved abortive as Pa
Oyesiji refused to open the door, a development that resulted in the neighbours
forcing it open.
After a quick scan through the room, the little girl
could not be located.
This development got the mother and the neighbours
agitated over what could have befallen her.
However, they were shocked when they later discovered
the body of Aishat in a half-filled bucket of water in the unlit room.
As the
news spread in the neighbourhood, an irate mob was said to have descended
on the retired lecturer with different objects,
beating him almost to the point of death, until he was rescued by a team of
policemen from Agugu Division.
Sunday Tribune gathered that
Pa Oyesiji is an habitual drunkard and was already drunk when he approached his
wife for sex, another reason which reportedly made the young woman to have
rebuffed his advances on the fateful day.
Though he admitted that he was drunk, Pa Oyesiji told
Sunday Tribune that he only wanted to prevent the girl
from running about, by putting her in a bucket, adding
that he did not know that the bucket contained water.
When reminded that the baby was already asleep when he
reportedly picked her from where she was, the man
could not put up any further defence.
It was learnt that the police were yet to inform the
man about the girl’s death, so that he would not harm
himself.
He was also taken to a private
hospital for treatment of the
injuries he sustained in his eye
during the mob action.
Oyesiji, a holder of MBBS degree, also lectured at the University of Ibadan before
transferring his services to the University of Ilorin in
1996.
Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of
administration, Mr. Clement Adoda, confirmed the story, saying that the remains
of the girl had been deposited in a mortuary for autopsy.
He added that the case would be transferred to the State Criminal Investigation
Department (SCID), Iyaganku for further investigations.
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