Widow of a slain commercial motorcyclist aka Okada rider Monsuru Fowotade Alapini, has said she advised her husband against going out that fateful day.
Alapini was stabbed on the chest by some suspected cultists in Oworonsoki, Lagos, on Valentine’s Day and died on his way to Gbagada General Hospital.
The widow, Damilola said her late husband complained of hunger on returning home, adding that after eating he went out against her advice.
Damilola said: “We were together at home in the evening of February 14 around 6pm. He just returned from work where he went to supply sand and said he wanted to take a shower; so I helped him take a bucket of water to the bathroom. Later, he said he was hungry and we sent someone to buy beans and bread. After eating, he said the food did not satisfy him and that he would go and get beans from a woman that sells it downstairs.
“I told him not to go because I had a dream that some people were fighting him before he came in that evening. He said he was not going out, that he was just going downstairs.
“Later, I heard he went towards the place he works because some people wanted to open a hotel there. I also heard that a woman who owns a shop around that place told him to wait for her there but someone called him on the phone.
“Someone had also called him on Saturday morning when he was at home and when I asked him who the person was, he said the person was one of his friends. When I asked which of his friends, he said it was Ganiyu. Ganiyu works with Sondoko. I told him not to go.
“That Sunday night, I was inside watching a movie. I just stepped out to the balcony when I heard noise that he has been killed. That was around 7pm.
“I was told that the child of one of those that killed him was celebrating his birthday that day. He went to the birthday because his friend called him and when he got there, the Sondoko guys sent a little boy to tell him to get up from the chair. He told the boy that he did not meet anyone when he sat there and the men immediately surrounded him. The person that stabbed him came from behind and stabbed him in the chest.
“They took him to a medical centre but he was rejected and they took him to Gbagada General Hospital. He died before they got to Gbagada.”
A distraught Damilola described her husband as an easy going person, saying: “He is someone who does not fight and abhors violence. I don’t think anything has linked him with those men before. The only thing I know is that his younger brother was attacked by Sondoko’s men last year
. Likewise, his elder sister was once beaten mercilessly and her shop was demolished.”
She called on government to bring her husband’s killer to justice, saying her husband did not have any relationship with the Oloworo of Oworonshoki, Oba Bashiru Saliu, and Balogun of Oworonshoki Alhaji Mustapha Ajisegiri, who are quarrelling over the stool.
Also yesterday Ajisegiri denied that he and Oba Saliu were behind the fracas that led to Alapini’s death and the destruction of properties worth millions of naira.
He urged the police to bring the perpetrators to book.
Last weekend, Commissioner of Police Fatai Owoseni claimed that Alapini was killed during a clash between some thugs known to the monarch and Ajisegiri.
Denying the allegation while briefing reporters at his residence, Ajisegiri said he knew nothing about the clash.
Ajisegiri, 78, confirmed that he and the monarch were quarrelling over the stool, adding that the matter is in the court.
He said he was not in Lagos during the fracas, adding: “I travelled to treat myself in Abeokuta, so I wonder why I should be mentioned as one of the sponsors of the violence that I knew nothing about”.
The Nation
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