WoMAN BEATS SON TO DEATH FOR STEALING N50

Tragedy struck at 8, Amosu Street,
Ijegun, Lagos, on Sunday as a woman identified simply as Iya Anu,allegedly beat her foster son, Seubow, to death for
allegedly stealing N50. It was learnt that Iya Anu, a mother of
four, usually inflicted injuries on
Seubow, her husband’s nephew and her children whenever they erred. Trouble started when 16-year-old Seubow misplaced a N1, 000 note given to him for an errand on Saturday.

The development, it was learnt, irked Iya
Anu who starved the teenager
throughout Saturday. When Seubow
could no longer bear the hunger, he
sneaked out of the house at night to buy
Gala. When Iya Anu knew about it, our
correspondent learnt that she became
furious, accused him of stealing her N50
and gave the teenager the beating of his
life.

A neighbour who identified herself
simply as Balikis said the accused must
have used a hot object to batter the boy
as his body was full of burns. She said, “Iya Anu began to beat him on
Saturday night. The beating continued
till about 9am on Sunday when her
husband and the other children had left
for church. “She battered him till he gave up the
ghost about noon. When she realised
that the boy had lost consciousness, she
cried for help but it was already late.
At a point, she wanted to run away but she was promptly rounded up.” Another resident, Modinatu, said Iya
Anu, had in June battered the boy
resulting in her being invited to the
Isheri-Oshun Police Division for
questioning. She said, “Seubow joined them in
December 2011 and this woman has
made life so unbearable for him just the
way she does to her children too. In
June, the boy was battered to the extent
that she was quizzed by the police. “Also, she has in the name of discipline
used a knife to injure her first daughter,
Anu, on her shoulders over issues
bordering on misdemeanour. “She is so violent that she even fights
neighbours with objects at the slightest
provocation.

She was sent packing from
her former place of residence on Jimoh
Aigbe Street, which is just some few
streets away from here when she injured her landlady with a knife.” Corroborating Modinatu’s claims,
Alexander Akinnurun, the Proprietor of
Alex Group of Schools, Ijegun, the
school Seubow attended before his
death, described her as a troublemaker. He said, “She has been perpetrating
those acts for quite some time now and
reports of her heinous deeds abound.

In June, Seubow who happened to be one
of my pupils came to school with a
disfigured face and wounds on his body. “I was so moved by this that I reported
the incident to the police. I don’t know
how far the police went with the matter
but I never expected that such an ugly
incident would still repeat itself.”

When our correspondent visited the
area on Monday, it was learnt that she had been arrested by the police. It was also learnt Iya Anu was a serial
divorcee and is at present with her third
husband. When contacted on the phone, the Police
Public Relations Officer in the state, Ngozi
Braide, said she could not reach the
Divisional Police Officer of Isheri Oshun. “I can’t independently confirm the
incident for now as the phone number
of the DPO of the station is not available.
I will get back to you as soon as I get
through to him,” she said.