CITY NEWS My husband poisoned me to Driver kills 2 in Abeokuta abort my pregnancy – Wife …It is not true – husband

Ayoung woman, Mrs Lateefatu Bodunde, yesterday told the Abeokuta, Ogun State, Grade 1 Customary Court sitting at Ake, how her divorce-seeking husband, Liafeez Bodunde, allegedly poisoned her in order to terminate the pregnancy she was bearing.

Lateefatu, defending the suit Liafeez had instituted against her, said it was only God that saved her from what she called an untimely death.

But the husband responded that the behaviour of Lateefatu, a mother of one, had become unbearable, and that she even packed out of their three-year-old matrimonial home.

“She engages in frequent fighting, she is very stubborn and is always cursing anytime there is a disagreement,” he said.

Lateefatu disagreed, narrating that trouble started in the relationship when she became pregnant for the second time. She said, “I told him that I was pregnant and that was the day trouble started. He wanted me to abort it and I said no. Unknown to me, he poisoned me to abort the pregnancy.”

Her husband, however, denied the claim.

The court president counselled both parties to remain calm, stressing that in line with the position of the law, the court would allow the couple and their families an opportunity for possible reconciliation.

But Akande noted, “We have no option than to dissolve a relationship in a situation where threat to life is involved. Our concern is that of the welfare of the children, and we have the prerogative to decide who is to take possession of them.”

The case was subsequently adjourned till February 29, 2018 for ruling. Two persons were yesterday killed in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, when a driver, who witnesses described as “reckless”, rammed into them by the roadside.

The accident, which occurred at Alowonle, along the Adigbe-Obada road, not too far from the Ogun State Polytechnic, drew the ire of protesters, who wanted to set the car ablaze. The intervention of a police team from the Adigbe police station, however, stopped the mob action.

The accident occurred about 4:00p.m. when the young driver, alleged to have been drunk at the time, lost control of the Honda saloon car registration number FKJ 703 EL which he was driving and veered off the road to hit a commercial motorcycle rider and a female bystander.

The two persons, simply identified as Segun (the motorcycle rider) and Seun, died instantly on the spot as the car crashed into a gutter culvert.

The driver, who was in company of a lady, scrambled out of the car and frantically began to make a call. But the crowd that had immediately gathered drew his attention to the two persons he had crushed, who were in the throes of death.

Efforts to rescue the victims began, but it was too late. In no time, the police arrived at the scene and took the corpses and the young man to the station, followed by the man’s female companion.