» Immigration Officer’s Wife Battered In Lagos Hotel For Shunning Love Advances «

Detectives attached to the State Criminal Investigations
Department (SCID), Panti, Yaba, Lagos State, have arrested
a man who allegedly beat up one of the female teachers in
his children’s school for shunning his love advances. The
man, Kazeem, 45, a father of four, was said to have
pounced on the female teacher (names withheld) when she
went to deliver a message to him from the school
authority. The pretty teacher is the wife of a top
immigration officer.
Recounting the incident to her mother and sister, the
teacher, who was rushed to Elegbeleye Specialist Hospital,
Ikosi Ketu said she was attacked at Kingsley Ahmed Hotel,
Apaola Crescent, Ikosi Ketu, on November 27, 2015, at
about 5pm. The suspect was described as one of the
distinguished and respected parents of Sinclair Louis
Primary and Secondary Schools, Agility, Mile 12 Lagos
State. The matter was reported by the victim’s sister,
Onome Owumi at Ketu Police Station and Kazeem was
picked.
The victim, who is 33-year-old, is the Human Resources
(HR) Officer of Sinclair Louis Schools. She was sent to
deliver a message to Kazeem by the headmistress of the
school, but the suspect attempted To Molest her, after
tricking her to meet him at the hotel. The victim’s sister,
Owumi, a nursery school teacher, said Kazeem had always
been interested in dating her younger sister.
According to Owumi, Kazeem used to inundate the
victim’s phone with love messages. Owumi said: “My
sister is married. She told him every time he wooed her
that she was married. He however refused to listen to her.
He continued to send her love messages.” Narrating how
the incident occurred, Owumi said: “On the fateful day, at
about 4pm, my sister was sent to Kazeem by Mrs.
Alawiye, the headmistress of the school. My sister is the
HR of the school.
Part of her job is to speak with parents and persuade them
to pay up their debts. Kazeem, being one of the well-
respected parents in the school, was told that my sister
would be coming to his office at Tipper Garage to speak
with him on the debts he owed the school, since
examination would soon start. “When she got to his office,
he wasn’t there. She called his phone. He said he had just
left the office and was at Aladelola Street, Ikosi.
My sister was annoyed and he immediately apologised.
When she got to the place, she saw the man at the
balcony of a house. She didn’t know it was a hotel. There
was no sign to indicate the place was a hotel. He asked
her to come upstairs. On getting there, she didn’t see him.
She called out his name. He answered from a room.
My sister followed the sound of his voice. She found him
inside a room. He was sitting on the bed. Innocently, she
walked into the room. “After talking to him and showing
him the necessary ways to go about paying up the debts,
she stood up to leave.
On her way out, Kazeem held her hands. He told her that
he wanted to speak with her. He said he liked her and
would like to have sex with her. But my sister said that
she couldn’t. She told him that she was already late for a
church vigil.” Owumi said that Kazeem stood up, dashed to
the door and locked it.
Although the lady was shocked at his behaviour, she
attempted to explain to him that she couldn’t have sex
with him because it was a taboo in her tradition. She told
him that if she had sex with him, and later had sex with
her husband, her husband would die. Owumi said that
rather than listen to the lady’s explanations, Kazeem
suddenly pushed her into the bed and pounced. As she
struggled with him, he rained punches on her. He tore off
her clothes and started touching her breasts.
The lady screamed and Kazeem allegedly tried to
suffocate her with a pillow. Owumi said: “She grabbed his
manhood when he tried To Molest her, but he bit her on the
neck.
As the struggle continued, she got weaker. Weary, she told
him that she had accepted to have sex with him. She
however said that she was fasting. She told him that she
needed food to break her fast. He went out to get food, but
padlocked the door. She quickly sent a text message to
the headmistress and her husband that Kazeem was about
To Molest her. She had already seen a sticker in the room
that showed the name of the hotel.”
The headmistress however called when Kazeem had
returned with the food. He asked his prey to pick the call
and tell the caller that she was at Ibadan. It was later
discovered that headmistress transferred the message to
the principal of Sinclair Louis Schools. The principal
forwarded it to the victim’s mother.
The woman received the message while she was in the
church and immediately left in search of her daughter. The
headmistress, Mrs. Alawiye, said that she never knew that
the suspect could degenerate to the level of attempting To
Molest another man’s wife. Mrs. Alawiye said: “I told the
lady (HR officer) to speak with Mr. Kazeem about the
debts his children owed the school.
He has four children in our school and they were all sent
home over debts. The money they owed the school was
N108, 400. Since the exams would start on Monday, I told
the HR to call their father and speak with him. I had no
idea such a grave crime would occur.
“I saw a message sent earlier by the HR that she was in
trouble. I called her immediately and she answered telling
me all was well. I didn’t know she was under threat. I went
home thereafter and then later forwarded the message to
the principal to let him know about the message. It was
the next day I got to hear the full story.
But I’m grateful that the HR was not raped, only, beaten
and injured.” The manager of Kingsley Ahmed Hotel, where
the incident occurred, introduced himself simply as Mr.
Wale. He said that he was not aware of the incident until
some policemen came to the hotel on investigation.
Wale recounted: “I know the lady. In fact, I’m a family
friend. I know her mother because she sells frozen foods at
Mile12. I was once a manager at a hotel in Mile 12. I didn’t
even know she was the one until the police came
searching. I was in my office. I had earlier gone to the
bank and just returned.
I had no idea that the lady, whom Mr. Kazeem said would
come to visit him had arrived. “We didn’t hear shouting. At
about 2am, the police arrived at the hotel with the lady’s
family. They said that there was a kidnap case in the
hotel. I was shocked. I immediately took our bunch of keys
and we proceeded in opening all the rooms. When we got
to room 15, we knocked, but there was no answer. “At the
second knock, the lady in the room shouted.
The policemen on hearing her shout immediately broke
down the door. The man was Unclad, while the lady was
with a bed sheet wrapped around her body.
The man wanted to run out, but the policemen pushed him
back. “He was arrested and we all went to Ketu Police
Station. All through the questionings, the lady insisted that
he didn’t rape her, but only beat her up because she
refused him sex. The man on the other hand, insisted that
the lady was his girlfriend.”
The victim’s husband said he didn’t want his wife to
speak with journalists or the matter to be in the papers.
The suspect was arraigned on a three count charge at the
Ogudu Magistrates Court, on December 1, 2015. Bail was
given in the sum of N200, 000, with three sureties.
Kazeem couldn’t meet the bail conditions and remanded in
Ikoyi Prison.