Adedayo Deru,78, politician, was
reported collapsing on his lover’s chest and dying on the spot.
It was learnt that Deru went from a
steamy sexual session on his lover’s bed to a roadside where his corpse was
dumped after his death.
His lover Ijimo Ibrahim,30, a hairdresser, was currently
at the Department of Criminal Investigation of the Ogun State Police Command,
Eleweran, Abeokuta,where she is helping the police to unravel mystery surrounds
her lover’s death.
According to Punch newspaper, their
relationship went thus:
“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,” she said.
According to Ijimo Ibrahim, after her
apprenticeship and a love 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 s*x 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.
Source: Punch Ng.
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