Robbers stab woman in throat, steal her phones, others around her house at dawn

A woman on her way to her father-in-law’s was mugged by robbers who stabbed her in the throat before robbing her of her phones and other valuables.

The incident took place 5 am around Moro community, close to Odokekere, in the Sagamu Local Government Area of Ogun.

Neighbours who heard Adesanya Sekinat’s scream for help during the attack rushed to her rescue, and the robbers fled on their get-away motorcycle.

The hoodlums, upon sighting the residents, fled on a motorcycle.

The victim’s husband, Isa, said people who met his wife in a pool of blood called him to the scene—just within minutes of her leaving their house for another just some blocks away.

‘She went there because family members were cooking there in preparation for a wedding ceremony.

“She just finished bathing the children and observed the morning Solat (prayer) when she left. We planned to quickly finish the cooking so we could leave home early because the ceremony was at Egbeda.

“I was the one that locked the door when she left. I was having my bath when I heard people calling my attention to what happened to my wife.”

She was already dead when he got there but was clinically confirmed dead when they got to a nearby hospital.

The state Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said the police got to know about the incident when the family requested a police extract to facilitate Sekinat’s burial.

“It was when the Ogijo Divisional Police Officer demanded to know the circumstances surrounding the victim’s death and detailed men to the scene of the attack that we discovered that she was attacked by suspects who stabbed her in the neck as against the report that she was shot,’ he said.

“The DPO told the family to hold the burial so a post-mortem could be carried out on the corpse for proper investigation. But the family members insisted that they need to fulfil her burial rites as a Muslim.”

He said police has, however, started investigation.