It started as a squabble
between two ladies.
One was
the landlord’s daughter, the
other a tenant’s little sister. In
time, it graduated to a brawl.
People, including the landlord,
came to separate them
. And
there was peace – or so the
people thought. Just when
everyone was just settling down
with what he or she was doing,
there was a fresh commotion.
The two ladies had gone back
at each other. This time,
viciously. By the time it all
ended, one of the ladies lay
dead
. It was the landlord’s
daughter, named Rhoda. It was
said that her alleged assailant,
the tenant’s little sister named
Happiness, stabbed her in the
chest. Her dead body is now in
the morgue in Isolo area of
Lagos.
Rhoda, a 23-year-old
hairdresser and mother of two
(she was nursing the last one
before her death) was living in
her father’s house, at 23,Odulaju
Street, Sabo, Ajangbadi, Ojo, in
Lagos, with her children. Her
father Oladuyoye Abel is a
pastor with Christ Apostolic
Church.
Her alleged killer, Happiness, 19,
from Nnewi South, Anambra
State and a salesgirl at Alaba
International Market, Ojo, said
she never intended to kill
Rhoda
. According to her it was
Rhoda who wanted to stab her.
Narrating the incident, she said,
she returned from the just-
concluded Lagos International
Trade Fair to notice that
her
bathroom slippers were not at
the entrance of her room
. She
started looking for them and
saw
Rhoda’s first child of about
four years wearing them.
According to her, she took them
from the little girl and implored
her not to wear them again
because she had lost several
pairs left at the entrance of her
door.
Her alleged killer, Happiness, 19,
from Nnewi South, Anambra
State and a salesgirl at Alaba
International Market, Ojo, said
she never intended to kill
Rhoda
. According to her it was
Rhoda who wanted to stab her.
Narrating the incident, she said,
she returned from the just-
concluded Lagos International
Trade Fair to notice that
her
bathroom slippers were not at
the entrance of her room
. She
started looking for them and
saw
Rhoda’s first child of about
four years wearing them.
According to her, she took them
from the little girl and implored
her not to wear them again
because she had lost several
pairs left at the entrance of her
door.
“I was cautioning the little girl
and I didn’t know that her
mother was by the well-side.
Instead of Rhoda to caution her
child,
she started asking the
little girl why she should wear
the slippers of a valueless,
worthless, miserable and
good-for-nothing girl.
She was
calling me other unprintable
names. It was from then that
fight erupted and her father and
my brother intervened
immediately and separated us.
That was about 7.30pm. Her
father was angry with her and
h
e asked her if she was the
only lady in the compound that
every time, she would quarrel
with people.” happiness said in annoyance,
annoyance, the old man went
inside the house and started
throwing out his daughter’s
belongings, asking her to “leave
the house as he is fed up with
her trouble. My brother also
cautioned me that this shouldn’t
be the reason to fight. I wanted
to go inside when she rushed at
me from behind and I shouted
and drew the attention of
people that thought that the
fight had ended and I fell on the
door of the tenants’ kitchen and
she was holding my jugular. Her
mother was there,
I didn’t know
how she got a kitchen knife on
the floor probably left by a
tenant that was cooking and
wanted to stab me. I overpowered her and took it
from her and it slipped through
my finger and I stabbed her. It
was later that I heard that it was
on the chest that I stabbed her.
“ As the fight was going on she
had vowed that either of us
would die that evening. I went
inside and heard that she was
lying down and bleeding.
My
brother made move for her to
be taken to the hospital but her
mother objected and said she
would grind pepper and onions
and put in her nose to revive
her and when she gets up she
would then be taken to the
hospital. It was when the
pepper and onion therapy had
been administered and she
didn’t get up that my brother
went to the Ilemba Hausa police station, Ajangbadi to report,”
Happiness narrated. She then
asked: “Why should I
deliberately kill her? Even
though we had problem before,
but we had made up our
differences.”
Happiness is now in the
homicide section of State
Investigative Bureau, Muslim
Smith, Yaba. She is very sacred
of how the whole thing would
turn out. She is also afraid of
want might become of her aged
mother in the village when she
hears the news. According to
her, she lost her father at an
early age.
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