Main PageMy Children Were Killed, They Didn’t Die In Any Spiritual Bath – Grieving Mother
On November 20, 2014, every parent's nightmare
became a reality for 42-year-old Ayedun Shitta-
Bello. It was a normal Saturday. There was nothing
out of the ordinary that morning that could foretell
the tragic news she was about to hear.
"I did not even have a nightmare or a bad dream
that could make me think that such a terrible thing
had happened," she told our correspondent.
Barely out of bed that Saturday morning, Shitta-
Bello got a call from her brother, Prince Musaliu
Buhari.
"Come quick, please, don't ask why, just come,"
she was told on the phone.
Shitta-Bello said apprehension set in as she tried
to understand what could have warranted such an
early summon.
Our correspondent met Shitta-Bello at Badore
area of Ajah, Lagos, on Wednesday where she
spoke of the agony of the last two months since
she learnt that her sons, Abiodun and Ayinde
Oniru (23 and 20 respectively), had died.
The fair complexioned woman, could not hide her
agony during the interview as she kept asking,
"Why? Why? Why would anybody kill my sons? To
punish me or what?"
Shitta-Bello and her sons' father had parted ways
since Abiodun and Ayinde were little but they lived
with their father who had converted from Islam to
Christianity.
Saturday PUNCH learnt that the deceased attended
a white garment church pastored by one Samuel
Olusoji. with their father and step mother.
Two days before the incident (November 18),
Abiodun and Ayinde along with their father and
step mother were said to have gone to church for
a programme. The church is located at 739, Ori-
Oke Ibukun, Ilasan Street, Jakande, Ajah.
Shitta-Bello's ex-husband and father of the
deceased told the police that he left the church
earlier having performed his own bath but left
behind his children and wife in the church.
According to the statement he gave to the police,
early morning on Saturday, he got a call from his
wife who told him that his two children had
drowned during a spiritual bath in a stream
frequently used by the church along Ogombo area
of Ajah.
The father of the deceased called his ex-wife's
brother (Buhari), who raced to the scene in shock
and saw his nephews' dead bodies lying on the
ground.
Screaming inside but trying not to sound alarming,
Buhari dialled his sister's phone line and told her
to come to her ex-husband's house right away
without giving reasons.
She said, "I just woke up when I received the call. I
quickly put on clothes and went there. I got there
and realised that relations were there as well. I
became suspicious.
"I asked what had happened but no one told me
anything initially. I then asked for my children.
That was when they told me they drowned during
a spiritual bath. From then on, everything they told
me made no sense. The more I thought about it,
the more it did not add up."
The church pastor initially fled while the police
arrested the assistant pastor of the church.
According to Shitta-Bello, she was told during
investigation by the police that almost 100 other
people were present during the 'spiritual bath'.
"How can two people drown during a spiritual
bath and they turn out to be siblings? How can
anybody expect me to believe that was a
coincidence?" she said.
The grieving mother said sleep had eluded her
since the incident as she always stayed up in the
middle of the night to think about her precious
children.
Shitta-Bello has another child from the man she
remarried but lamented that the hope that her two
late children would meet their young sibling would
not be fulfilled.
She said, "I called my children around 7pm on
Friday, the day before the incident and they told
me they were in church for a programme.
"Few days before then when I visited them at their
father's house, they did not even want me to leave.
But I promised to come back soon and bring their
sister along because they had not met her before.
"My children had become a source of joy to me.
But they died mysteriously just at the moment
they were of age to fulfil their responsibility to me
as a parent.
"I am not saying this because I am grieving but no
one can tell me anything that will make me believe
that they died just by drowning. How could they
both drown when people were there and nobody
went in to help? I was told Ayinde went into the
water first and his brother went in to rescue him
and they both drowned."
Saturday PUNCH learnt that the deceased were
scheduled to travel out of the country in a few
days that same November and had even packed
their bags.
The bodies of the deceased are still lying in the
mortuary at the Lagos State University Teaching
Hospital as investigation into the case continues.
Buhari, the deceased's uncle, told our
correspondent that he believed that there was
more to the story of the drowning as well.
"The police are still conducting investigations. That
is why the bodies are still in the mortuary. We will
know what happened when the result of the
autopsy conducted on the bodies comes out," he
said.
The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Mr.
Kenneth Nwosu, said investigation into the case is
still ongoing at the Department of Criminal
Investigations.
"The pastor of the church was tracked down and
arrested shortly after the incident last year," he
said.
http://www.punchng.com/feature/super-saturday-
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The pics below are that of the mother and her two
sons that are dead
May their soul rest in perfect peace
became a reality for 42-year-old Ayedun Shitta-
Bello. It was a normal Saturday. There was nothing
out of the ordinary that morning that could foretell
the tragic news she was about to hear.
"I did not even have a nightmare or a bad dream
that could make me think that such a terrible thing
had happened," she told our correspondent.
Barely out of bed that Saturday morning, Shitta-
Bello got a call from her brother, Prince Musaliu
Buhari.
"Come quick, please, don't ask why, just come,"
she was told on the phone.
Shitta-Bello said apprehension set in as she tried
to understand what could have warranted such an
early summon.
Our correspondent met Shitta-Bello at Badore
area of Ajah, Lagos, on Wednesday where she
spoke of the agony of the last two months since
she learnt that her sons, Abiodun and Ayinde
Oniru (23 and 20 respectively), had died.
The fair complexioned woman, could not hide her
agony during the interview as she kept asking,
"Why? Why? Why would anybody kill my sons? To
punish me or what?"
Shitta-Bello and her sons' father had parted ways
since Abiodun and Ayinde were little but they lived
with their father who had converted from Islam to
Christianity.
Saturday PUNCH learnt that the deceased attended
a white garment church pastored by one Samuel
Olusoji. with their father and step mother.
Two days before the incident (November 18),
Abiodun and Ayinde along with their father and
step mother were said to have gone to church for
a programme. The church is located at 739, Ori-
Oke Ibukun, Ilasan Street, Jakande, Ajah.
Shitta-Bello's ex-husband and father of the
deceased told the police that he left the church
earlier having performed his own bath but left
behind his children and wife in the church.
According to the statement he gave to the police,
early morning on Saturday, he got a call from his
wife who told him that his two children had
drowned during a spiritual bath in a stream
frequently used by the church along Ogombo area
of Ajah.
The father of the deceased called his ex-wife's
brother (Buhari), who raced to the scene in shock
and saw his nephews' dead bodies lying on the
ground.
Screaming inside but trying not to sound alarming,
Buhari dialled his sister's phone line and told her
to come to her ex-husband's house right away
without giving reasons.
She said, "I just woke up when I received the call. I
quickly put on clothes and went there. I got there
and realised that relations were there as well. I
became suspicious.
"I asked what had happened but no one told me
anything initially. I then asked for my children.
That was when they told me they drowned during
a spiritual bath. From then on, everything they told
me made no sense. The more I thought about it,
the more it did not add up."
The church pastor initially fled while the police
arrested the assistant pastor of the church.
According to Shitta-Bello, she was told during
investigation by the police that almost 100 other
people were present during the 'spiritual bath'.
"How can two people drown during a spiritual
bath and they turn out to be siblings? How can
anybody expect me to believe that was a
coincidence?" she said.
The grieving mother said sleep had eluded her
since the incident as she always stayed up in the
middle of the night to think about her precious
children.
Shitta-Bello has another child from the man she
remarried but lamented that the hope that her two
late children would meet their young sibling would
not be fulfilled.
She said, "I called my children around 7pm on
Friday, the day before the incident and they told
me they were in church for a programme.
"Few days before then when I visited them at their
father's house, they did not even want me to leave.
But I promised to come back soon and bring their
sister along because they had not met her before.
"My children had become a source of joy to me.
But they died mysteriously just at the moment
they were of age to fulfil their responsibility to me
as a parent.
"I am not saying this because I am grieving but no
one can tell me anything that will make me believe
that they died just by drowning. How could they
both drown when people were there and nobody
went in to help? I was told Ayinde went into the
water first and his brother went in to rescue him
and they both drowned."
Saturday PUNCH learnt that the deceased were
scheduled to travel out of the country in a few
days that same November and had even packed
their bags.
The bodies of the deceased are still lying in the
mortuary at the Lagos State University Teaching
Hospital as investigation into the case continues.
Buhari, the deceased's uncle, told our
correspondent that he believed that there was
more to the story of the drowning as well.
"The police are still conducting investigations. That
is why the bodies are still in the mortuary. We will
know what happened when the result of the
autopsy conducted on the bodies comes out," he
said.
The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Mr.
Kenneth Nwosu, said investigation into the case is
still ongoing at the Department of Criminal
Investigations.
"The pastor of the church was tracked down and
arrested shortly after the incident last year," he
said.
http://www.punchng.com/feature/super-saturday-
crime/my-children-were-killed-they-didnt-die-in-
any-spiritual-bath-grieving-mother/
The pics below are that of the mother and her two
sons that are dead
May their soul rest in perfect peace
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