A popular radio presenter with Faaji FM, a sister company of Africa Independent Television, Mr Soji Omotayo, recently escaped death by a whisker when a jealous husband attacked him with a machete. The man, a car dealer at Sango, Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area of Ogun State, accused Omotayo of having an affair with his wife.

The furious husband, Kunle (surname withheld), attacked Omotayo on August 22. Omotayo said that he was surprised by the attack because he and Kunle had been doing business together for years. Kunle was said to have lured the victim to his house at Sango on that fateful day, saying that he had secured a ‘publicity job’ for him. Omotayo and his Personal Assistant got to Kunle’s house around 8am and called him on the phone that they were already at his gate. The presenter left his PA inside his car and went to meet his supposed benefactor. He said: “I was ushered into his living room. When I entered, I met his daughter and wife there.

They greeted me and left the living room. I noticed that he locked the door, but did not remove the key from the keyhole. The man then asked me if my wife was in Nigeria and I said yes. He told me to call her that he just wanted to say hello to her. “What shocked me most was that after he collected the phone from me, he told my wife he purposely invited me to his house just to kill me. He told my wife that I was dating his wife.”
Omotayo said that before he knew what was happening, Kunle had pocketed his phone and brought out a sharp machete from his trousers.
Kunle allegedly inflicted cuts on Omotayo’s head, arm and stomach. Omotayo said: “I started shouting for help. Before I knew what was happening, another machete landed on my stomach.

I struggled with him to take possession of the machete. I pushed him away before I was able to open the door and locked him inside.
Some of the residents gathered at the gate to see what was happening.” The presenter explained that it was his call for help that alerted his PA and residents of the area. He said: “My PA and his wife joined in calling for help. People rushed into the compound. Among the people that rushed to his house was Alhaji Moruf Alagbe, who invited policemen from Onipanu Police Station, near Obasanjo Farms in Ota.

The policemen took me to their station alongside the suspect.” Omotayo said that he was rushed to the hospital by one Inspector Liasu from the police station, where his head was stitched. He added: “Other parts of my body where I sustained injuries were treated. I was then brought back to the station, where some family members of the culprit had gathered.
They begged me for settlement, but I told the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) that what I wanted was justice.” According to Omotayo, when he reported to the station the following day, he was shocked to discover that Kunle had been granted bail. The case was later transferred to Zone 2 Police Command, Onikan, Lagos State for further investigations.

At press time, Kunle could not be reached on his mobile phone as it was switched off. When contacted on the phone, the Zone 2 Police Public Relations Officer, Mr Lawal Adebowale, said he was driving. But, subsequently, Adebowale refused to pick his calls.

HungerBAD:
This story does not add up.

In all the commentary, Mr Soji Omotayo neither denied or confirmed if he was dating somebody's wife,and that leaves me to suspect he has something going on, as the man did not just wake up and point him out of everybody he knows, to be sleeping with his wife.

To those who specialize in sleeping with other people's wife, know that it is a one way ticket to Uncle Devil's abode if karma catches up on you, especially if the woman has a crazy husband.

In my Service days in the East. A popular Palmwine tapper in the community i served,after hearing plenty of rumor in the community, that the wife was sleeping with one Hunter. Pretended one day, he was going for a burial in Onitsha, and he went to the next Village to hide.

This woman is not even young and should be in her 50's with her 3 Kids married.

Late in the night, the man sneaked back home and caught them in the act in his bedroom. He was prepared with a Machete in his hands, and he hacked both of them to what i was assuming was death.

The community apprehended him,and he was taken to the Station. It was at the Station, they told him the Wife had not died and from what i heard. The man went crazy, and was shouting that he should be released to go FINISH the Job.

That day, was the day i swore NEVER to look at a MARRIED woman, let alone attempt to sleep with one. Married women are trouble, and will bring nothing but grief into your life.

I still have not seen the kind of blood scattered everywhere, like the one i saw in the palmwine tapper's house, and whenever a married woman start becoming flirtatious with me, i usually just PLAY the image again in my mind, and you need to see me RUN away.

I don't want to be the next Cutlass Victim.

Hopefully, this Radio Presenter has learned his lesson, and should go and sin no more. He might not be Lucky the second time.