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Fadipe’s widow recounts how suspect stabbed husband, mother, others

By Yetunde Ayobami Ojo
16 October 2015   |   3:04 am
WIFE of the late Lagos-based human rights crusader, Mr. Kunle Fadipe,‎ Mrs. Kemi Fadipe, yesterday narrated to a Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja how the alleged suspected killer stabbed her husband, mother, son and sister.

StabWIFE of the late Lagos-based human rights crusader, Mr. Kunle Fadipe,‎ Mrs. Kemi Fadipe, yesterday narrated to a Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja how the alleged suspected killer stabbed her husband, mother, son and sister.

The trial commenced yesterday before Justice Atinuke Ipaye with the first prosecution witness, Kemi Fadipe, telling the court how her husband sustained various injuries before he died in the hospital.

Narrating the incident‎, she said it happened on July 3, 2014 at 10:00 p.m. after the deceased returned home late from office, took his meal and retired into his room.

“After his meal, he retired into his room; my sons went to their room adjacent to his room. My sister (Abiola Owolabi), who worked with him in the chamber, lived with us while my mother who came for her eye surgery was with us at home.

“The generating set was on because there was no light. So, I asked my 17 year-old boy, Folahanmi, to go and switch off the generator. After about five minutes he left, I heard him shouting “my daddy, my daddy, there is thief in the house,” she said.

The Proprietress further told the court that the accused chased his son to the living room, having stabbed him, where she was watching television with the deceased.

“He (suspect) was shouting that somebody was going to die that night. I was scared and hide behind my husband. He said the house was surrounded by other members of his gang. He demanded for N500,000 but we kept begging him.

“My husband asked me to bring the envelope in his trouser which contained money but the defendant slapped my son with the knife and ‎he also stabbed my husband with the knife which cut my husband’s neck.

“At a point, all of us got angry and pushed him. Immediately, he stabbed everyone in every direction. As he wanted to escape, he met ‎my mother who heard the noise coming out from her room and stabbed her chest. “At that time, the OPC people entered and over-powered him. We took my husband to hospital some minutes before midnight but he died some minutes past 1:00 a.m. My mother died two weeks after she heard of my husband’s death.”

Owolabi, a sister to the widow, also told the court that the accused stabbed the deceased on several parts of his body, adding that efforts by members of the family to overpower him by hitting him on the head with various objects was not successful as he ‘was too powerful’ for them.

“He was very strong and had strength of 10 persons,” she said.

The matter was adjourned till November 18, 2015 for further trial.

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