hen miss Isiwatu Ajayi received a text message, allegedly sent to her by Bisi, the wife of a welder, Kabiru Ogunlana, warning her to stop her love affairs with her husband, she took it as one of the empty threats. But she was proved wrong penultimate Thursday. Bisi and her husband were said to have stormed Ajayi’s residence at Mafoluku, Oshodi, Lagos State, that fateful day and at the end of the invasion, Ajayi ended up in a morgue, stone dead.

Initially, the victim did not see anything wrong in a couple visiting her but she was forced to change her thought, when Bisi watched, as her husband stabbed her severally. Though Ajayi, whose body was deposited at the General Hospital, Isolo, did not live to tell the story, members of her family say all they want is justice.

Giving a graphic account of how Ajayi, an orphan, was gruesomely murdered by her lover, Idowu, the deceased’s friend alleged how Ogunlana’s wife actually supervised her murder. She disclosed how Ajayi earlier complained that one of the wives of Ogunlana, warned her to discontinue her intimate relationship with her husband.

She recalled how the deceased and Ogunlana met and fell in love about two years ago. The relationship, according to her, was so strong that people even thought Ogunlana would marry her as his third wife.
According to her, when one of his wives knew about their relationship, she started threatening Ajayi, warning her to leave her husband alone. “But Ogunlana kept telling Ajayi not to quit, assuring her that the matter would soon be resolved amicably,” she said.

She revealed that Ogunlana was living up to expectations, by taking care of her and her three-year-old child.
She told Crimewatch that when the threat from the woman was becoming too much for her, Ajayi left where she was learning how to sew clothes and started hawking herbal mixture (agbo). She recalled: “Immediately the couple stormed Ajayi’s room, Bisi commanded her husband to deal with the victim. But Ogunlana was confused, he didn’t know what to do until his wife started booing him, calling him a coward. She challenged him to kill Ajayi, if he was a man. The man became confused and in the midst of that confusion, Ogunlana drew a knife and started stabbing her repeatedly.”

The victim was said to have fainted and when Bisi realized the weight and consequences of her husband’s action, she took to her heels, abandoning him at the crime scene. But when Ogunlana discovered that she was dead, he used the same knife to stab himself. “He started stabbing himself, and wanted to commit suicide, but he was rescued and rushed the hospital by some people. Idowu is, however of the view that Ogunlana’s wife might have used some 'spiritual powers’ to influence her husband to act the way he did. “I can’t explain what transpired that day. Ogunlana loved Ajayi too such that nothing but spiritual power would have made him kill her,” she said.

She said there is dilemma over who takes care of the child she left behind. She lamented: “Ajayi has no parents, no brothers and sisters, who is going to take care of the little child?”
She, however, appealed to the State commissioner of police, Mr. Yakubu Alkali, to bring the killers of her friend to justice. A police source disclosed that Ogunlana is lying critical at a General Hospital in Lagos , while his wife is still at large.

The source said the police were investigating the matter and would soon unravel the circumstances surrounding the murder.“We can’t say what really transpired. Ajayi is dead, the man who allegedly stabbed her dead is still unconscious at the hospital. The wife, who allegedly masterminded the killing is still at large. So, we are yet to know what transpired.” The command’s spokesman Jaiyoba Joseph, confirmed the incident but said the police were still investigating the tragedy

Look how they wrote the story to totally absolve this loser of any wrong. SMH. May her soul rest in peace