Mum, 50 kills daughter, 22

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Wonders they say shall never end, this explained incident of how a woman, Mrs. Toria Aina Adanikin, in her late 50s, allegedly confessed and narrated how she murdered own daughter, Miss. Oluwafunmilayo Rosaline Abosede Adanikin, a 300 level student of the Federal College of Education, Ikere-Ekiti, clubbed her to death late in the night, buried her very early next morning and fled the neighborhood immediately ?neighbours

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Daily Times also gathered that up till the time of filling this story, police are yet to be informed about the incident.

Adanikin who until the alleged murder of her daughter lived in Adanikin compound, beside Baba Ewenla house in Idamodu area of Emure-Ekiti, Emure Local Government Area of Ekiti State, was said to have put an end to the life of her 22-year-old daughter on the night of December 7 at their apartment.

Residents and neighbours in the area said that trouble started a few days before December 7 when Abosede began to confess to committing some evil deeds through diabolical means. She was said to have allegedly confessed to causing havoc in their family by killing relatives and spoiling the fortunes of others with the use of fetish powers she got from her mum.

According eye witness told Daily Times that “Abosede had confessed to killing a relative of her mum as well as causing the misfortune that befell her father, Pa Titus Folorunso Adanikin, among other things before we heard that she had died that night. The incident had caused a stir in the community as she had made the confessions in the full glare of the public,” the old woman said.

“She was taken to some churches for prayers and spiritual deliverance where she spent days confessing and disrupting the peace of everyone there. She was even said to have confessed to be in a spiritual cult in which she already had two babies and to which she had promised to return whenever she loses her virginity to a man here on earth. She also revealed that she had lost her virginity recently. The last church she was taken to rejected her and asked her mum to take her home, another resident added but did not reveal the names of the churches.

” Abosede’s confessions was reported to our traditional ruler, Oba Emmanuel Adebayo who immediately ordered that her mum and her should report to the palace so the matter could be looked into according to the traditions of the land. The Oba particularly sent his messenger and some chiefs who brought one of the Oba’s symbol of authority, a certain rod, to show that the bearer were sent by him, but Mrs. Adanikin lied to the bearers of the king’s message that the girl didn’t confess to committing any thing. They said that she only had some mental problem. But as soon as the king’s messenger left, she tied the hands and legs of the girl so as to tame her. Her neighbours in the house said when it was late in the night, she began to beat the girl in the room where she had her locked up and eventually pushed her against some planks which her late father had bought to make the doors of his uncompleted building. It was then, the girl lost consciousness.

Adanikin then arranged for people who procure a coffin, she ordered that the hired men forced her dying daughter inside the coffin for burial even when it appeared that the girl had not entirely given up the ghost. It was early the nest day that Adanikin had her daughter buried, barring all odds. She buried the girl beside the uncompleted building of her late father, Pa Folorunso Titus Adanikin. The uncompleted building is in Mosafejo area of Emure-Ekiti. If you go there now, you will discover that there are two fresh graves there, one is for Pa Adanikin while the other is Abosede’s grave, ” the elderly resident, who craved for anonymity, added.

One of the children, Mr. Abiodun Adanikin, in a telephone chats with the Daily Times who neither absorbed his mother of the accusation nor accuse her of committing the alleged killing. Mr. Adanikin simply told the reporter in a phone conversation: ?I would have preferred to see you before we talk about this but I’m not available now. It is true that members of our community, especially the neighbours in Idamodu area of Emure-Ekiti where my mum lives with other members of our family, are alleging that she killed our last born, late Miss. Abosede Adanikin, who until her death, was a year three student of the Ikere College of Education.

?However, since it didn’t happen in my presence, I cannot say that our mum killed the girl. But I cannot also say that she didn’t do it. Where one is pushed to suspect a foul play is that my mum and her sister, both of whom were said to be with the girl (Abosede) during her travails, the alleged confessions and her mental derailment until the night of December 7, suddenly disappeared the next morning after allegedly burying the girl.

?Given such circumstances, I think my mum owe us all some explanations, moreso that the people alleged that she turned down the Oba’s invitation to the palace during the alleged confessions of my sister.

” Right now, we don’t know where she is, we would have heard from her what really happen that night, leading to the sudden death and ‘hasty’ burial of the girl, ” he said.

Meanwhile, a woman in the area, who though, craved anonymity but said she is a relative of Mrs. Adanikin, said Abosede’s mum is not capable of killing her daughter. She argued that it was not just possible for a mother to snuff life out her daughter especially when the daughter was said to be mentally disturbed and needing help, she said: ” Aina (Mrs. Adanikin) is not capable of hurting a fly let alone killing her own daughter. Please don’t believe what those people are saying. How is it possible for a mother who has suffered so much to bring up a child as fully grown as Abosede to find it easy to kill her? It is not true.

?It is not also true that she killed her daughter to prevent the girl from exposing their witchcraft as is being insinuated in some quarters. And as to why the woman just disappeared the next morning after the hasty burial of the deceased, she may just be afraid or too shocked and ashamed to face the people after the embarrassment the mental imbalance displayed by the deceased has caused her. Anyone could do that, you needed to be in this town when the deceased went gaga, saying all sorts of despicable things against her self, her mum and the relatives. It had been a huge embarrassment to us all and a big disgrace also, ?the anonymous woman said.

Daily Times put several calls across to the traditional ruler of the town, Oba Adebayo, who is also a former commissioner of police, in a bid to get his reactions on the matter, but the calls were not picked, a source close to him confirmed that he indeed, sent for Mrs. Adanikin and her late daughter but was turned down. The source also said that the police would soon be brought in to investigate Abosede’s death.

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