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36-year-old, Waheed Oyatunde, recently escaped death after he
was shot in the thigh by his landlord identified as Mr Latunji over his
affair with the landlord's wife.
Latunji owns a block of
flats at Ketu Adie Owe area of Ado Odo/Ota Local Government Area of
Ogun State, which he let out to tenants. Oyatunde, a native of Abeokuta,
the Ogun State capital, moved into Mr. Latunji’s house about three
years ago after he completed his youth service and got employment with
an Agbara, Ogun State-based multinational company.
The landlord is
a member of the vigilance group in the area. Latunji’s wife, Ireti,
runs a canteen in Agbara where Oyatunde works.
Oyatunde, a
bachelor, always gave the landlord’s wife a ride in his car to Agbara
every morning since his office is close to the woman’s canteen. This he
was doing with the blessing and approval of the landlord. Ireti is said
to have been married to the landlord for six years but is yet to be
blessed with the fruit of the womb.
Trouble started in the
Latunji family sometime in April, 2013 when it was reported that
Oyatunde and Mrs. Latunji were dating. When news of the amorous
relationship with his wife got to Mr. Latunji, he confronted his tenant
with the rumour.
According to neighbours, when Mr. Latunji
confronted Oyatunde with the allegation that he was dating his wife, the
matter almost degenerated into an exchange of fisticuffs between the
landlord and his tenant until some elders in the area intervened.
Since
then, Oyatunde has stopped giving the woman daily morning rides to
Agbara. Mr. Latunji’s wife, however, did not take kindly to being
accused of dating her husband’s tenant. She reported the mater to her
in-laws, who prevailed on her husband to put the allegations behind him.
However,
according to neighbours, even though Oyatunde had stopped taking his
landlord’s wife to Agbara in his car, the rumour mill was still agog
with allegations of an amorous relationship between Oyatunde and his
landlord’s wife.
The story was that the bachelor was always seen
with his landlord’s wife at some hotels in parts of Lagos State,
especially on weekends. The bubble finally burst on Saturday, July 20,
2013, when Mrs. Latunji informed her husband that she would be
travelling with her friend to Ekiti State for a burial ceremony.
A
day before that fateful Saturday, Mr. Latunji had reportedly called his
wife’s friend to confirm their purported movement to Ekiti, which the
woman confirmed. But it later turned out that the Ekiti trip was a hoax
after all.
The landlord’s wife left home early on Saturday
morning for the purported weekend trip. Her suspicious husband hired
three hoodlums to trail her movement. The three hoodlums rode on two
motorcycles behind the bus the woman boarded from Lusada junction to
Agbara. It was reported that the woman also boarded another bus from
Agbara to Mile 2 area of Lagos State and the ‘spies’ still rode behind
the bus the woman boarded.
Eventually, Mrs. Latunji reportedly
found her way to a hotel in Surulere area in the heart of Lagos State.
It was reported that Oyetunde’s car was also found in the parking lot of
the hotel. The hired ‘spies’ promptly informed their client on
telephone of the development.
An enraged Mr. Latunji left home
and headed for the hotel in Lagos. A couple of hours later, he arrived
at the hotel and he told the receptionist he was on appointment with
owner of the Hyundai car parked at the lot.
A waiter at the
hotel, who spoke with Saturday Mirror on condition of anonymity,
continued the story, “When the man came that Saturday morning, he
approached the boys at the reception that he wanted to see the owner of
the car whose plate number he wrote for them.
When asked to call
him on his mobile phone, the man claimed that the visitor’s mobile phone
was switched off. So, the boys felt that he was a genuine visitor and
one of them chose to take him to the room where the visitor lodged.
“When
the boy knocked on the door, the visitor came to open the door. And
when he did, he was shocked to see his landlord standing right in front
of the door.
The landlord’s wife was on the bed sleeping. That
was when trouble started.” Mr. Latunji forced his way into the room and
aimed a stool at his wife.
But Oyatunde and the hotel attendant
prevented Mr. Latunji from hitting his wife with the stool. The noise
from the room soon attracted other workers of the hotel to the scene.
After much persuasion, Mr. Latunji was whisked out of the hotel and he
left for his house.
Both Oyatunde and Ireti hurriedly left the
hotel. The woman has not shown her face back home since then. Knowing
that the game was up, Oyatunde went to his apartment in Latunji’s house
on Tuesday, July 23, 2013, apparently to move his belongings out of the
house.
That was the opportunity Latunji had been waiting for.
Once Oyatunde opened the door to his apartment and started packing his
property, Latunji burst into the apartment and engaged Oyatunde in a
fight.
The brawling men were soon separated by neighbours, only
for Latunji to rush into his apartment and emerge moments later with a
loaded gun. He aimed at Oyatunde’s thigh and pulled the trigger.
A
neighbour, who pled anonymity, said Oyatunde was lucky to have lived to
tell the story. “The landlord could have killed the man. But we thank
God that did not happen,” the neighbour said. Oyatunde was rushed to an
undisclosed hospital. The landlord has since fled his house with a
10-year-old son he had from another relationship.
Saturday Mirror
could not get Ogun State Police Command spokesman, Muyiwa Adejobi to
confirm the story. A source at the Eleweran office of the command
claimed that the matter was reported but that he had no details of it.
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