Adedayo Deru, despite the huge age difference was in a secret love affair with Ijimoh. Unfortunately, September 30, 2014, he collapsed on her chest and died on the spot. She dumped his corpse on a roadside and according to Punch , Ijimo is now finding it hard to explain her situation to police investigators at the Department of Criminal Investigation of the Ogun State Police Command, Eleweran, Abeokuta.
Ibrahim, who was never married, has two children with two other men. Sitting on the floor with agony etched on her face, Ibrahim narrated how her lover, who was married to. another woman, died.
“He only came for sex in the mornings so that his
wife would not suspect,” the fair
complexioned woman said, as her face revealed that
she would prefer not to relive the sordid details of the
affair. The late Deru and Ibrahim met six years ago in Odogbolu.
“There was a day I was with him. We had sex but the
wife caught us. So, I had to leave the town shortly
after. I went to Lagos to work as an apprentice
hairdresser."
affair in Lagos that resulted in a child, she was back in
Odogbolu, where another love affair resulted in another
child.
“None of the fathers of my children were good. They
never took care of me or the children. I turned to the
only person who has been really helpful to me. My
lover (Deru) was a good man. He helped me anytime I
called on him. When we reconnected after I got back
from Lagos, we continued our love affair secretly
because he was always there when I needed help.”
Asked what sort of help Deru rendered, Ibrahim said he
sometimes gave her foodstuffs or money for food, which
she said was up to N1,000 on each occasion. So, she and
Deru enjoyed a sexual experience that endured until their
final encounter, which has put her in police net as a murder
suspect.
She said:
“He came as usual on September 30 around 9am. I
was on my way out of the house; I was going to work
already that day. But he met me as I got out of the
door and said he was visiting me. I told him I could
spare some hours before I left for work, so I went
back inside with him. As soon as we got in, he
stripped and I did the same. It was just one round of
sex that we had and I don’t know why that could have
killed him.
Our lovemaking was not even that long. He started
complaining that he was not feeling fine. He said he
was feeling tired and dizzy. Shortly after, he
collapsed and stopped breathing.”
When Deru became unresponsive, Ibrahim said she became
frightened. Confused about what to do next, she dialled the
telephone number of a male relation, explaining what had
happened.
“My brother (the relation) told me to calm down,
promising to come to my aid later that afternoon so
that we could decide on what to do. But when I did
not see him by evening, I realised he had run away
and switched off his mobile telephone in fear,” she
said.
Ibrahim had to turn to another acquaintance who
eventually agreed to help her dispose of the body.
“We thought if I reported to the police, I would be in
serious trouble. I didn’t know I was making a terrible
decision.”
It was around 3am the following day when Ibrahim
disposed of Deru’s body with the help of a commercial
motorcycle rider living in her house. The motorcyclist,
Benjamin Friday, who tried his best to present his version
of the events that led to his involvement in disposing of the
body, said he had no idea that Deru was already dead.
“When they woke me up to help them carry a body, I
was told it was her (Ibrahim’s) elderly relation. I was
really sleepy, they only told me he was ill and they
wanted to dump his body on a roadside so that he
would not die in her house,” he said.
Asked how he could possibly help carry a body and would
not know whether it was that of a dead man, Friday said he
was sleepy at the time.
“I told them I would not touch the man’s body.
Someone sat behind me supporting the man’s body. I
only drove them to the roadside. They put the body
down and I left.”
Also in police custody was a photographer friend of
Ibrahim, Funmilayo Moyegun, who said she was only
requested to be there “to take his (Deru’s) photograph.”
“I only held the lamp when the body was being
dumped,” she said.
Deru’s body was said to have been dumped about 100 metres away from his lover’s house on Oladipo Diya Road, Odogbolu. The police were called to the scene when the body was found by residents of the area.
Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Mr. Muyiwa Adejobi, said after a thorough police investigation, the body was eventually traced to Ibrahim. According to him, investigation would continue into the matter.
“We would determine how the man died and whether
her version of the story correlates with the
circumstances of the death,” Adejobi said.
He revealed that an autopsy would help the police
determine the level of culpability of the prime suspect.
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