According to the woman, her husband, Kehinde Adesanmoye, approached her as she was preparing Indomie to sell to her customers and poured petrol on her body which immediately caught fire and burnt her until she could get help from passers-by who helped her extinguish the fire and
took her to the hospital.
She said, "I saw him coming towards me,
as he got nearer, he ordered my
customer to leave and as I tried to run for my dear life, he poured petrol on me and fire caught up with me immediately.
Passers-by rescued me and ran after him
to fight him, but immediately they noticed it was him, they all went to their various homes. Then some of them took me to the Police station and from there I was taken to Peaceful Convalescent Center, Alhaji Obe Street, Ejigbo Lagos."
She explained that trouble started on
September 8, 2012 when they both
attended a naming ceremony of a mutual
friend who lives close to their residence at 22, Olaoluwa Street, Abaranje, Ikotun.
She said, "As we got to the party, my
friends who were also present were
hailing me, calling me 'Indomie', because
I was known for selling Indomie. I was
invited to sit on the chairs they have
organized for friends. Adesanmoye was
sitting right beside me.
"After some time, my friend, a vulcanizer,
Taye offered me a bottle of wine, but I
rejected it at the first instance because I
was on my menstrual period and I don't
want to take anything alcoholic. But
when the pressure from my friends was
too much, pestering me to take the wine,
I decided to take a cup.
"Immediately Adesanmoye saw me finish
the cup of wine, he got up and started
going. I ran after him to ask what went
wrong. To my surprise, he started
abusing me and asking why do I have to
collect a drink from a friend in a party
while he was sitting right beside me, and
why do I have to kiss a friend in the party
too?"
She accused Adesanmoye, 39, of being a
wife-beater who always threatens her
whenever she tries to abandon the
relationship.
"My husband has always been jealous.
He used to beat me every time under any guise and excuse. I have tried several times to leave him but he always
threatened to harm me. I stayed with
him because I was afraid of him and my
life. He always told me that I could never
escape from him, except I leave Lagos
State. Anytime I said I was leaving him,
he would say, no problem, that he would
do something to me that I will not forget.
Now, see what he had done to me," she
said.
Her husband's family were reported to
have approached Janeth for a settlement
offering to pay her a sum of N100,000 for her pains. She however rejected the offer refusing to go back to him.
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