A cameraman with a Lagos-based television station has fled home after his wife allegedly threatened to kill him for taking a second wife after denying him sex for more than six months reports KUNLE AKINRINADE.

Eighteen years ago, Ishaq Ojo exchanged blissful marital vows with his wife, Awawu. But the love between the couple flipped recently sending the once happy couple on a warring path that has shattered their matrimony.

In a video recording exclusively obtained by our reporter, Ojo is seen frantically crying for help while struggling to break free from the grip of his wife, who is threatening to dispatch him into early grave.

The couple’s daughter (name withheld) and a female relative of Awawu are also heard pleading with Awawu to stop attacking Ojo.

The recorded incident occurred at the couple’s home in Obide-Ntabo Ibaragun near Ijoko area of Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area, Ogun State.

“I will make sure that I kill you. I have been told to kill you and I will kill you. It is today that you will die…” Awawu threatened in the video recording.

Ojo on his part is seen screaming: “She has bitten me again! She has smashed my mobile phone on the ground…Please, don’t kill me!”

Their daughter is also heard saying: “My mother, please don’t kill him… I beg you in the name of God, consider the fact that both of you have been taking care of me.”

Speaking with our reporter, Ojo, who works with a Lagos-based television station as a cameraman, explained that the recording captured moments when Awawu drew a kitchen knife and went after him after trying unsuccessfully to suffocate him with a pillow.

He said he was left with no choice but to cry out for help.

The embattled husband said: “I fled home more than two weeks ago when she brought out a knife and threatened to kill me.

“Our daughter and one of my wife’s sisters, who were around, were the ones holding her back from stabbing me with the knife. Hence, I fled home for my dear life.

“I had barely returned from work that day when she stirred up an altercation, and before I knew it, she went into the kitchen, brought out a knife and tried to stab me.”

But what actually turned Ojo and Awawu into estranged couple after almost a decade in marriage? Ojo offered an insight, saying that his wife suddenly forbid him from mating with her, giving various excuses.

He said: “She sells building materials and I was responsible for setting her up in the business.

“The genesis of this crisis is that I took a second wife after she deliberately denied me sex for more than six months.

“She had been threatening to kill me even before she found out about the new woman in my life.

“She actually trailed my new woman to her residence where she threatened that she would deal with her if she did not desist from seeing me.

“I decided to take a second wife after she stopped me from making love to her for six months.

“First, she told me she was having sex with other men outside, including an hotelier, who is one of her rich customers and that I can no longer make love to her.

“At another time, she told me that she usually experienced low sales and patronage in her business each time I had sex with her. Hence, she denied me sex at home.

“She continued to assault me each time I tried to make love to her.

“She had used a screwdriver to stab me and also bit me with her teeth several times. The scars are all over my body.”

Ojo explained further that he once reported his wife to some Muslim clerics, who intervened and pleaded with her to no avail.

“When I invited some Muslim clerics who taught her the Koran to talk to her, she again said that she usually suffered misfortune in her business whenever we had sex and that was the reason she denied me of sex.

“The clerics told her that she was wrong to have denied me sex but she turned a deaf ear to their admonitions.

“I was advised by people to leave my home for her because she could kill me one day.

“After she found out about my new wife, she started asking me to make love to her everyday.

“However, if I refused that sex should not be an everyday thing, she would assault me and threaten to deal with me if I did not quit my affair with my new wife, especially after she found that I had impregnated the lady and she was delivered of a baby.

”She held me by the throat and attempted to suffocate me with a pillow. And when I managed to free my neck from her grip, I ran out of the house.

“She then went to report to the police at the Agbado Police Division that I assaulted her just to prevent me from attending the naming of the baby my new wife had for me.

“I was arrested and detained, and she asked that I should be charged to court for assault.

“Even when the policemen there told her that the penalty for assault is seven years imprisonment, she insisted that I must be prosecuted.

“My family members and friends pleaded with her and the police, I was freed after the police forced me to sign an undertaking that I would never assault her again and that I must desist from seeing my new wife and baby henceforth.

“She also took the matter to a monarch in Ota where she was cautioned about her attitude and asked to stop hostility with me.

“Dissatisfied, she took the matter to a radio programme and maligned my person.

“She is from Ibadan. She is about 46 years old and its very disturbing how she changed overnight.

Sometime ago, she woke me in the wee hours and confessed that she was seeing a rich hotelier who happened to be one of her customers and that she had sex several times with the man. I could not believe my ears and I was devastated.

“A few days later, she changed the story, saying that she was only trying to gauge my reaction and was not dating the hotelier.

“Later, she said that a spirit husband was making love to her while sleeping and that she could no longer have sex with me. I was no longer having any peace of mind at home.

“I am the owner of my house at Obide Ntabo community in Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area of Ogun State. But I needed to leave the home to save myself from untimely death from my cruel wife.

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“She has two I could children for me; a boy and a girl. I could not have raised my hand against her because I know that she is a sickle cell patient. But she is cruel at home, not minding her fragile health.”

Ojo added: ”The Baale (head) of our community heard about the matter on a radio programme when my wife reported me. But when the Baale asked her about it, she denied being the one mentioned, saying that nothing was wrong with her marriage.

“However, when the Baale called me on the phone I opened up to him that the matter was about me and my wife and that she actually took the matter to a radio programme.

“It was then that she now told the Baale that she denied being the one mentioned on the radio programme because she did not want her domestic matter to gain public traction, especially in our neighbourhood.

Efforts made to speak with Awawu were futile as calls placed to her mobile phone were not answered.

Enquiries made via her Glo mobile number were also not responded to.

An annual festival that features a masquerade called Jigbo ended in a fracas in Araromi area of Ibeju, Ibeju-Lekki Local Government Area, Lagos State penultimate Wednesday as the masquerade and a monarch in the area engaged in physical combat

The clash resulted in pandemonium as policemen invited from the Elemoro Area Command and Akodo Division stormed the community, firing teargas and gunshots to contain the situation.

In footage of the incident circulating on the social media, some masquerades were seen shouting Jigbo, Jigbo when the monarch in question, Oba Lukman Arowolo (Gbadewolu 1), who emerged from a building in a t-shirt on a pair of black trousers halted the procession and accosted one of the masquerades.

The monarch had queried the masquaraders’ decision to embark on a procession in his Araromi domain, following which the masqueraders and replied that “Araromi is inside Ibeju”.

An altercation ensued and later resulted in a brawl as the two parties engaged in an affray.

In one of the videos, armed policemen were seen breaking into some houses in a bid to arrest the supporters of the masqueraders as residents deserted the streets and ran for dear lives.

Two young men were seen dragged out of the building and arrested by the policemen assisted by some youths. A policeman was seen hitting one of the people arrested before they were later handcuffed.

In another video, Oba Arowolo is seen holding a cane, beating and running after some of the masquerades and their supporters before he was held back by bystanders, while another footage showed two camps of youths in the community armed with machetes and sticks locked in a fight on a street.

To get Oba Arowolo’s side of the incident, our reporter sent him an inquiry via Whatsapp on Thursday, but the monarch replied asking the reporter to visit his palace for his response. “Come to my palace,” he said.

In his reaction, however, the Onibeju of Ibejuland and paramount ruler of Ibeju-Lekki, Oba Olasunkanmi Waliu Rasaki, said the masquerade festival is held annually, noting that Oba Arowolo’s action amounted to a desecration of Ibeju’s culture and tradition.

He said: “Oba Lukman Arowolo had participated in the Jigbo masquerade festival in the past, especially when he was Baale and after his elevation to a coronet monarch.

“Suddenly, he started saying that he would not allow the celebration of the festival in Araromi, which is part and parcel of Ibeju-Agbeland. “Jigbo masquerades are not violent as they usually embark on peaceful processions to cleanse the entire communities in Ibejuland, and they would not enter any house as they are restricted to the road and streets alone.

“It was while the masqueraders went on their procession that he attacked them and asked them to go back home. He unmasked the face of the deity while his secretary also attacked the masqueraders as seen in a video.

“I was having a meeting in the palace with some monarchs and I asked Oba Ogunfayo to invite him and other monarchs to a forthcoming special meeting only for him to start raising the alarm on the phone that he was being attacked by my boys.

“Policemen later came to contain the incident, although the policemen overreached themselves by shooting indiscriminately into my palace instead of going to Araromi to contain the situation.

“We saw how the Jigbo masqueraders were going about their procession peacefully far off from Araromi until Oba Arowolo tried to interdict them.

“We were invited to the Police Area Command at Elemoro, for a truce but Oba Arowolo refused to attend.

“Nevertheless, I still took my time to address the people of Ibeju to let go of the matter and forgive the indiscretions of Oba Arowolo because he is an indigene of Ibejuland.

“I was joined by other monarchs like Oba Kayetoro, Oba Ogunfayo, Oba Elepia, Oba Onisolu and Prince Bayo Balogun at the place where I addressed Ibeju residents.

“It was while we were there that we heard that there were sporadic gunshots in Araromi and some youths were shot.”

He added: “Jigbo festival is held annually in the entire Ibejuland. The masquerade is our deity and is never to be seen by a woman. But Oba Arowolo desecrated our land and culture by allowing his secretary to see and unmask the deity.

“A monarch has to protect and uphold culture and tradition in a society, so one wonders why the spiritual festival of a people would be disrupted by the very person that is supposed to be the chief custodian of the cultural values.

“For now, the tension has not abated at all following the attack on the festival procession.”

Contacted, the Public Relations Officer (PPRO) of the Lagos State Police Command, Mr. Benjamin Hundeyin, promised to revert to our reporter.

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