A 27-year-old mother of two has narrated how a customer known as Ifagbenga lured her husband, Ishola Jamiu, 32, to Badagry, where he disappeared without a trace.
Mrs Ishola, in an interview with the Punch, said her husband dropped her off at her shop and told her he was going to Badagry to see Ifagbenga, a herbalist.
Before then, he said her husband had taken many calls from the customer while she was there, and she understood that the customer had complained about some iron doors he had bought from her husband.
She recalled that her husband told the man that they were minor issues, one of his boys could come and rectify.
Afterwards, the same man called to invite her husband to come over to his place in Badagry to look at another job, different from the doors he had earlier bought.
Mrs Ishola said her husband then travelled to Badagry with his bike and never returned.
She recalled that when she could not reach her husband, she contacted his friend and neighbour, with whom they went round recommended places to look for him, such as hospitals, morgues, and police stations.
When they could not find him, they went to Badagry and reported to the police, who reportedly told them to come back after 24 hours.
On the third day, they went to another police station in the same Badagry, where the wife was promised that an investigation team would be set up for the case.
Mrs Ishola, who sells clothes and has been married to her husband for seven years, said the police asked her for her husband’s pictures, which she provided.
On her own, she enlisted the services of phone trackers, two of whom traced her husband to Badagry, but did not give the specific address.
She enlisted the services of another one in Ikeja, who was able to track her husband to a precise location, an uncompleted house in Badagry.
They informed the police of their findings, and the police followed them to the house, which happens to be under the care of Ifagbenga.
A security guard on the premises was arrested, while Ifagbenga, who was not on the premises at the time, was summoned to the station over the phone.
The herbalist reportedly told the police he would turn up with this lawyer later. He reportedly finally showed up with a lawyer two days after he was summoned.
He reportedly denied knowing anything about the disappearance of Mr. Ishola.
A search of the house, however, revealed the personal belongings of Mr Ishola, such as his motorcycle, his working tools, his house keys, his bag, and hair clippers of his son.
The missing man’s phone was also found with the security guard, who reportedly claimed that the owner sold it to him.
The distraught wife said this was a lie.
She said the guard, a Hausa by tribe, later confessed that Ifagbenga killed Ishola and carried away the body.
According to her, Ifagbenga denied the allegation and claimed that he was not at the premises at the time.
This reportedly contradicted the security man’s allegation that Ifagbenga, Ishola and a bricklayer were together in the house on the day he disappeared.
Mrs Ishola said she believed her husband had been killed. She called on the government to investigate the incident and bring the culprits to book.
