A woman from Delta State who effectively hid her adulterous relationship from her husband, Lekan Onipede, is now on the run after she viciously attacked him with boiling water and pursued him with a knife.
The woman, Rosemary David, had a son for Onipede, a 31-year-old indigene of Ondo State, about 11 years ago, when he was 20. While still living with him under the concept of common law marriage, and in what would appear to be a case of polyandry, she allegedly hooked up with another man in Delta State and had two other children (a boy and a girl) with the man, and then passed them off as Onipede’s children.
Over the years, David
perfectly juggled the two ‘husbands’ in Ondo and Delta states, co-habiting
with one or the other in a near seamless manner until the bubble burst, and set
the stage for the heinous attack on Onipede after accusing him of adultery.
The tale began when David
who was living with her parents in Ore, Ondo State, got into a relationship
with Onipede and became pregnant.
With Onipede insistent on
not allowing her abort the pregnancy, she dropped out of school and later gave
birth to a baby boy. After the birth of the baby, Onipede relocated to Lagos
to study at a technical school and also seek means of earning income to support
David and the baby. While Onipede struggled to find his feet in Lagos, David
alternated between living with her parents and Onipedes’ parents in Ondo State
on the one hand and her aunt in Delta State on the other hand.
Two years later, Onipede
completed his training at the technical school at Abule-Ado, Lagos State, got a
job and then invited David to come and live with him. This began their ‘marital’
journey. A few weeks later, David informed him that she was pregnant. Quite
upset with the news, Onipede expressed his displeasure, but promised to do his
utmost to cater for the family.
As it would later turn
out, David regularly traveled to Delta State to visit her aunt and her mother,
during which she would stay for three weeks or one month. She continued to make
the frequent visits to Delta State until she gave birth to a third child.
The first twist in the
tale occurred four years ago, when Onipede and his elder brother attended a
wedding in Delta State, where they met one of the brothers of David and his
friend named Okey.
When Okey learnt that
David was married to Onipede, he laughed scornfully and said: “Okay, let’s see
after the wedding because we have something to talk about.” Okey exchanged
numbers with Onipede and they kept in touch.
When the duo spoke, Okey
told Onipede that his ‘wife’ had another husband in Delta State. Despite the
protestations of Onipede, Okey challenged him to trail David to Delta whenever
she embarks on another visit to the state. Still unbelieving, he did not act on
the advice until the 2014 Easter period when David traveled to Delta State with
the third baby.
Onipede called Okey, who
urged him not to believe David’s story of going to visit her aunt. Acting on
this advice, Onipede trailed David to Delta State and spent three days
searching for her. On the third day, he finally saw her with another man.
Heartbroken, Onipede returned to Lagos the same day, after discovering his
wife’s infidelity.
Recalling
what he overheard in the bar that night, Onipede told Sunday Sun: “As I
sat at the bar monitoring my wife, one of the men seated there said that he did
know what Rosemary always went to do in Lagos. Every time, she would go to
Lagos and leave her husband here at home. I am sure it is because of the first
wife of the man she is married to. I returned home, I took my two children that
Rosemary left behind for blood test since DNA test is expensive. The only child
who had the same blood group as my was the first child I had with Rose in
secondary school. When she came back from Delta, I told her that I got a new
job and said that she should go and do a blood group test as the company
required the whole family to do such. When she did it, the second and third
children had the same blood group but it was not the same with their mother’s
blood group or mine. That was when I knew the children were not mine.”
Based on this discovery,
Onipede told David he didn’t want anything to do with her again. She left for
her parent’s place in Ore with the children.
Despite the separation he
continued to cater for the children. Then one day David called and said she
wanted to visit Lagos to buy jewellery and sell in Ore, Ondo State. Out
of a sense of charity, Onipede said he
invitOndo State. Out of a sense of ed her to stay in his apartment to ease her
accommodation problem while in Lagos. Upon her arrival, she tried to perform
her wifely duties, like cooking and cleaning. To discourage her, he casually
mentioned that he was in a relationship with a young lady, who was already
pregnant for him and would give birth soon.
The revelation enraged
David and she extracted the lady’s number from Onipede’s phone. She then called
and threatened her. David allegedly made several unsuccessful efforts to start
up a fight between her and Onipede. On Friday of that week, he left for work
and deliberately stayed back in the office to avoid her. But on Saturday night
she called him and pleaded with Onipede to return home because she needed money
to make up her fare to Delta State. The next day, he went home and gave her the
money she wanted and laid down on a settee in the room to rest.
It was at this point that
David made her Jezebelic move. From behind, she poured a pot of boiling water
on his back. When he screamed and turned towards her, she did the same to his
stomach. With his body severely scalded, Onipede rushed out, calling his
landlady for assistance. She advised him to go to the Police station to file a
report. Mounting his motorcycle, Onipede headed to the police station as David
continued to rain curses on him. Enraged that he left her in the house, David
allegedly picked up a knife, flagged down a motorcyclist and instructed him to
follow Onipede’s motorcycle. With both motorcycles trapped in traffic, she
continued to hurl insults on Onipede while passers-by watched her. Soon
enough, people who didn’t know the facts joined in insulting him for sleeping
with a prostitute and not paying her. The apparent support of the by-standers
fueled David’s anger, prompting her to pick up a plank by the roadside and
almost hit him with it before she was over-powered by some men who promised to
deal with him instead. As the argument was still going on, Rose brought out the
knife and tried to stab him. Upon seeing that she had been held back, Onipede
told the sudden roadside jury that David was his wife and he was heading to the
hospital to treat burns he got after she poured hot water on him. Instantly,
the people turned against her and forcefully dragged her to Area K Police
Station, Okokomaiko.
She was promptly
arrested, detained and asked to make a written statement. As this progressed,
Onipede’s burn wounds had become critical necessitating the police to transfer
him to Ikeja General Hospital, where he was given proper medical attention.
The next twist in the
tale happened when the brother of the lady, who is a policeman attached to the
Iyana-Ira Police Station allegedly facilitated her release by taking somebody
else to the station to secure bail for her. Though David promised at the police
station to apologise to Onipede, she never did so or bother to visit him at
the hospital.
“I never knew she was
going to react like this or even get angry. We are no longer together so I was
shocked when she took the news personal and attacked me with hot water.
Actually I saw the pot in the bedroom but I never checked what was in it,”
Onipede said, recalling that terrible day.
As it stands now, the
police are said to be making efforts to track down David who is on the run.
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