A pregnant woman has reportedly lost her pregnancy after her landlady and his son’s allegedly beat her to stupor.
According to reports, the woman’s husband a mechanic accused his landlady and her sons of assaulting him and his wife which led to his wife losing her pregnancy.
The man Sodiq Tijani, 28, rented a room in the building belonging to Toyin Sulaimon aka Iya Sade and her siblings. The compound is located at no 33 Udem Street, Brown bus stop, Iju-Ishaga.
Issues started after the landlady asked him to lie to her brother that he hadn’t paid any rent to her when infact he had been paying to her for 6 months.
The young man refused to lie causing him and his wife to be assaulted by Iya Shade and her sons, Azeez and Baba Oja which eventually led to the loss of his wife’s four-month-old pregnancy.
Speaking to Punch, Sodiq said:
After I paid her (Iya Shade)N32,000, she wanted me to lie to her brother and I refused. She became annoyed and said I wanted to tear her family apart; she told me to park out after my rent must have expired without giving me a notice to quit, but I still went ahead to make arrangements to leave.
On Monday, February 25, 2019, I was inside my room when she said she needed to see me and I obliged. Immediately I got to her shop, she locked me up and started assaulting me. It became worse when her son, Baba Oja, came with about 16 people, who beat me till I was bleeding all over my body.
The people around begged them to stop, but when I went to my room, I was shocked to see my wife holding her stomach and writhing in pain. Some of my properties had been damaged and when I asked her who did it, she said it was Azeez, who hit her stomach with a rod while forcing his way in.
Sodiq said his wife continued to feel pain in her stomach, she was taken to the hospital where it was revealed that the foetus in her womb had died.
Sodiq also claimed police refused to act despite having reported the assault at Area ‘G’ Police Command, Ogba, Lagos.
He said the case was not thoroughly investigated as he believes the police had connived with the perpetrators to cover up the crime.
