Four months after 39-
year-old Janet Odhegba
was set on fire by her
jealous husband, Kehinde
Adesanmoye, in Ikotun,
Lagos State, she has yet
to fully recover from the
burns she sustained after
the incident.
ablaze
At the moment, paying
her medical bills is a
great challenge.
Adesanmoye had on
September 11, 2012,
around 10pm allegedly
poured petrol on
Odhegba and set her
ablaze at the Ikotun
Roundabout, Lagos,
where she worked as a
food vendor.
Adesanmoye is currently
facing criminal charges
before an Ejigbo
Magistrate’s Court.
Odhegba allegedly drew
the ire of Adesanmoye
the previous day after
taking a wine offered to
her by one of her male
customers at a party
where he (Adesanmoye)
also attended.
The victim said her
relations and community
association members
who had hitherto
contributed money for
her medical treatment
said they could no longer
afford to foot her
medical bills.
She said they were
contemplating an out-of-
court settlement with
Adesanmoye so that he
could take responsibility
for her treatment.
Odhegba said, “Life has
not been the same with
me since the incident I
suffered in the hands of
my estranged husband
and I have yet to fully
recover.
“More worrisome is the
fact that my relations
and my township
association members are
mounting pressure on me
to embrace an out-of-
court settlement with
him.
“This is premised on the
fact that they have been
stretched to the limit in
terms of assisting me
financially. They have
really tried because I
don’t know if I would
have survived it without
their help.
“But, I don’t like the idea
of the settlement
because I really want him
to face the full wrath of
the law for the inhumane
treatment and assault he
meted out to me.”
According to a medical
report signed by Dr.
Kupoluyi Oluwatobi, the
medical officer-in-charge
of the private hospital
where she was being
treated, Odhegba needs
to undergo a “split skin
grafting by a plastic
surgeon for complete
wound healing.”
Odhegba said since she
was discharged from the
hospital because of her
inability to pay the bills,
adding that she had been
using different
traditional methods to
aid the healing process.
She said, “I now adopt
traditional methods for
treating the wounds
based on advice since I
cannot afford hospital
bills.
“The wound on my left
hand has made my
muscles to go stiff and I
can no longer hold
things.
“Apart from the skin
grafting, doctors have
also recommended that a
team of physiotherapists
need to work on me for
the purpose of
rehabilitation. I wish
Nigerians could help me
so that I won’t be forced
to withdraw the case on
lack of finance.”
Her mother, Mary, said
she had spent everything
she had to make her
daughter normal again.
“I have sold all my
property back in my
village in Ozoro, Delta
State. Since I moved to
Lagos to oversee her
welfare, all the crops I
cultivated to earn a living
have been completely
destroyed. There is no
source of getting money
from anywhere again,”
she lamented.

Oh crap. That's some nasty isht