Housewife Loses Eye After A Serious Scuffle With Her Mother-In-Law

A 52-year-old housewife, Olasunkanmi Lawal, has lost the use of one of her eyes after a scuffle with her mother-in-law, Aduke Awakan. The mother of two was also said to have been attacked by her sisters-in-law, Bose Showole (39) and Oduntan Enitan (24), at their family house on Isale-Agbede Street, on the Lagos Island area of Lagos State.

Gistmania learnt that the case was reported at the Adeniji Adele Police Station, leading to the
arrest of the suspects.

The victim explained that she was attacked because she stopped giving money to the septuagenarian.

She said:

 “My husband and I live in the family house and we have been there since 1989. We have two children.

“However, my mother-in-law started keeping malice with me after I stopped giving her money. I lost my jewellery business due to the demolition of my shop in 2014 and because of that; I could no longer support her.

On Saturday, January 16, around 4pm, I returned from work and I met her at home. When I greeted her, she shunned me. I was surprised because I never had any disagreement with her.

“Before I knew it, one of her children, Bose (Showole), punched me in the left eye. I fought back. Her grandchild, Enitan, used stone to hit me in the same eye, while the woman herself hit me with a chair. Blood started coming out from the eye.”

She said she reported the assault at the Adeniji Adele Police Station and from there, she was referred to the Lagos Island General Hospital, where the doctors told her she had lost the use of her left eye.

A medical report from the hospital, signed by one J.O. Owuye, said the victim was diagnosed with, “left periorbital swelling, abrusion at anterior chest wall.”

It was learnt that the police arrested the 79-year-old, but later released her on bail after the two other suspects, Showole and Enitan, were produced by the family.

Lawal, however, accused the Investigating Police Officer, Ajekigbe Sarah, of siding with the suspects against her.

She alleged that the IPO deliberately prevented her from completing her statement at the station.

“She stopped me midway and said I should go to the hospital for treatment. But when I returned to finish writing the statement, she said it was no longer necessary. Even the DPO queried her for the action,” she added.

Her father, Alhaji Ahmed Oshodi, called for justice.

But the septuagenarian suspect, Awakan, denied the allegations.

In her statement to the police she said:

 “It was about 4pm. I was at home when Alhaja (Lawal) came in and greeted me and I told her not to greet me again. Alhaja is the wife of my son. I asked her not to greet me because the previous day, she abused me indirectly and I decided not to reply her greetings again.

“So, when she came in and greeted me, I shunned her, but one of my daughters intervened.”

She said Lawal and her daughter had an argument which degenerated into a fight.

“I don’t know how she got injured in the eye,” she added.

Showole, in her defence, said she intervened because Lawal, who was her brother’s wife, was “abusing my mother and pointing a finger at her”.

“I pushed her hand and she slapped me on the face. Then we started fighting. She held my clothes and I did the same. I don’t know what happened to her eye,” she said.

Enitan denied involvement in the fight.

She said the fight was between Lawal and Showole.

The police, however, arraigned the trio before a Tinubu Magistrate’s Court on three counts of assault occasioning harm. The case was adjourned till March 24, 2016.

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Posted: at 11-03-2016 07:37 AM (8 years ago) | Addicted Hero

You go fear bleaching na

Posted: at 11-03-2016 08:06 AM (8 years ago) | Addicted Hero

Chaaiiii,,, im mata don jamb moule on d high speed, na sori case she dey

Posted: at 11-03-2016 08:15 AM (8 years ago) | Addicted Hero

Where is d husband of dis woman or is he dead?

Posted: at 11-03-2016 09:34 AM (8 years ago) | Gistmaniac

dis kain cass no be here ooooo, make dem blind one of dre eye too jooo.

Posted: at 11-03-2016 10:08 AM (8 years ago) | Gistmaniac

Staying in a family house as a married man is not a good idea.

Posted: at 11-03-2016 11:40 AM (8 years ago) | Addicted Hero

D MOTHER SAY SHE NO KNOW WETIN DO HER EYE EVEN D DAUGTHER SAY SHE NO KNOW WETIN DO HER EYE SO MY QUESTION NA WHO COME SCATTER D EYE FOR GROUND ABI ONLY D WOMAN NA PUNCH HER EYE ANYWAYS D STORY BE AS HE GET WAITING FOR D ORIGINAL VERSION BUT BEFORE THEN MOTHER AND DAUGHTER SHOULD REMEMBER SAY PERSON NO WELL ANOTHER PERSON WEY WELL COME DEY TAKE TABLET FOR PERSON WEY NO WELL NA WHO NO COME WELL يراقب الله !!!

Posted: at 11-03-2016 03:26 PM (8 years ago) | Gistmaniac

SOME HOUSEWIFE OF NOWADAYS REALLY NEED TO BE CAREFUL. SEE YOUR FACE NW.

Posted: at 11-03-2016 05:42 PM (8 years ago) | Gistmaniac

Wetin mother and sister in laws dey do for d house, dem no get their own place...?
Abeg make dem leave the woman alone she dey her husband house...
Stupid yorubas na so so money dem know...
I totally believe the wife...Abi na she punch hersef for eye...

Posted: at 11-03-2016 07:37 PM (8 years ago) | Hero

Sorry but is family problem

Posted: at 11-03-2016 11:36 PM (8 years ago) | Gistmaniac