Mrs. Victoria Aina Adanikin, an indigene of Emure-Ekiti,
Emure Local Government Area of Ekiti State, has allegedly murdered her own
daughter, Miss. Oluwafunmilayo Rosaline Abosede Adanikin, a 300 level student
of the Federal College of Education, Ikere-Ekiti.
An old woman, who is a neighbour to the family but who
craved anonymity, said:
“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.”
“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.”
Culled from the Sun
