A middle-aged woman in Ekiti, Mrs. Victoria
Aina Adanikin, has allegedly murdered her
own daughter, Miss. Oluwafunmilayo Rosaline
Abosede Adanikin, a 300 level student of the
Federal College of Education, Ikere-Ekiti.
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
trouble started a few days earlier when
Abosede began to confess to committing some
evil deeds through diabolical means.
She was
said to have allegedly confessed to causing
havoc in her family by killing relatives and
spoiling the fortunes of others with some
fetish powers she got from her mum.
An old woman, who is a neighbour to the
family but who craved anonymity, told the
reporter: “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 caused a stir in the community,
as the girl actually made the confessions in
the full glare of the public.
“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. She said she
would return to her home in the occult world
whenever she lost her virginity here on earth.
She also revealed that she had lost her
virginity recently.”
Another resident, informed that the last
church that Abosede was taken to rejected her
and asked her mum to take her home.
The old woman continued: “Abosede’s
confessions were reported to our traditional
ruler, Oba Emmanuel Adebayo (a former
Commissioner of Police) who immediately
ordered that the girl and her mum should
report at the palace so the matter could be
looked into according to the traditions of the
land. The Oba sent his messenger with the
royal staff, but Mrs. Adanikin lied to the
bearers of the king’s message that the girl
didn’t confess to committing anything. They
said she only had some mental problems. 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 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
earlier kept there by her late father to make
doors for his uncompleted building.
It was then that the girl lost consciousness.
Adanikin then arranged for people who
procured a coffin. She told the hired men to
force 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 next day that Adanikin had her
daughter buried. 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.”
One of the children of Mrs. Adanikin,
Abiodun, who also spoke with the reporter,
neither exonerated his mother from nor
accused her of committing the act.
He told the reporter over the phone:
“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 Abosede
during her travails, during the alleged
confessions and her reported mental
derailment, suddenly disappeared the
morning after they allegedly buried the girl.
“Given such circumstances, I think my mum
owes us all some explanation, more so since
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
happened that night, leading to the sudden
death and hasty burial of the girl.”
Meanwhile, a woman in the area, who
described herself as a relative of Mrs.
Adanikin, said Abosede’s mum was incapable
of killing her daughter. Arguing that it was
not just possible for a mother to snuff life out
of her own daughter, especially when the
daughter was said to be mentally disturbed
and needing help, the woman 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 that 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
herself , her mum and the relatives. It had
been a huge embarrassment to us all and a
big disgrace also.”
While several calls were made to Oba
Adebayo, a former commissioner of police, to
get his reactions on the matter, 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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