Mother Of 3 Allegedly Murdered By Lover

An official of the Lagos State University, Samuel Ambe, has been arrested by the police for allegedly killing his lover, Mata Jidonu.

Thirty-two-year-old Mata was married to a lawyer, Sunday Jidonu, for whom she had three children.

It was learnt that the suspect worked at the Department of Works and Physical Planning of the university.

Punch Metro gathered that Mata, who lived in the Agric area of Ikogazebba, Badagry, had left home around 3pm on February 15, saying she was going to buy foodstuffs in the market, but reportedly headed for the lover’s house, a few kilometres away.

Sunday said he became worried when it was 9pm and he had already called their church and family members and Mata did not come home. He added that he could not sleep conveniently till the following day when he reported at the Badagry Police Division.

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I was at the station, when the head of the vigilante group in our community called me on the telephone that my wife had been found dead in a bush path. When I got to the scene, a crowd had gathered and policemen from Ado-Odo Ota, Ogun State, had arrived to pick her corpse. She was strangled and stabbed in the leg. Her private parts’ hairs had been shaved off,”he added.

The lawyer told Punch that the nature of Mata’s death prompted him to talk to people living around the area, saying that he was told they are lovers and that she used to go to the suspect’s home regularly and was there on February 15.

He said he gave the information to the police, leading to Ambe’s arrest.