“It was a great mis­take on my part for keeping mute on the death of my children and for hid­ing it from their mother for close to three years,” says a 45-year-old herbalist and farmer, Ogunfadeke Adeg­benga.

The Ogun-State born fa­ther of six stated that he did not inform his wife of the children’s death because she never checked on them since she left the marriage some ten years ago.

He also said he could not locate where the two deceased children were buried because he only asked one ‘Aboki’, a wood cutter to help him bury one of the children behind the compound of the house where he lived while the second child was buried by a man named Henry who hails from Delta State.

He said, ‘I did not have strength to stand up then be­cause I was also sick but the Aboki showed my younger wife the shallow grave that the children were buried.”

He added that he sent the mother of the deceased chil­dren packing ten years ago be­cause she was flirting around.

According to reports, Ogunfadeke was arrest­ed by the South West Security Network Agency, Amotekun Corps, Ogun State Command, for alleged unlawful confine­ment, torture which resulted into the death of his two chil­dren.

The suspect was nabbed by Operatives of Amotekun Corps in Ibiade Waterside Local Gov­ernment Area of the state fol­lowing complaint of suspected murder reported by his ex-wife, one Busola Otusegun.

The complainant, when her marriage to the suspect broke up some years back, the ex-husband insisted he want­ed the custody of their three children whose age ranges from 18, 17, and 16 which was agreed upon. Though she relo­cated to Warri, Delta State and got married there, she was in constant touch with the suspect concerning the welfare of the three children and was always told all was well with them. She, however, did not have direct ac­cess to any of them (children).

It was gathered that on 30th March, 2023, one of the three children came across his aunty at Ibiade where he currently lives with his father (suspect) and narrated their experience with their father which led to the death of his two elder sib­lings – Yusuf Ogunfadeke ‘M’ 18 years and Dasola Ogunfad­eke ‘F’ 17 years between April and June, 2022 in Ijebu-Ode where they were all living with the suspect until he relocated to Ibiade.

He disclosed that their father (suspect) chained and locked them in a solitary confinement, without food and water for over three months which led to the death of the two siblings but he miraculously survived the ordeal.

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