A man, Funsho Jimoh, who was allegedly stabbed to death by his 22-year-old wife, Iyanu Adedeji, over alleged infidelity in the Gbonogun area of Abeokuta, Ogun State, has been identified as a wanted suspect in the murder of one Mary Ogunyemi, allegedly killed by a suspected serial killer, Philip Ogunnaike, in the Asero area of the state.
TheNigerian Metro learnt exclusively from a police source on Sunday that the late Funsho (now identified as Danjuma) had been on the wanted list of the police for his involvement in cultism, murder, and other offences.
Our correspondent reported last Monday that an argument had ensued between Iyanu and Funsho after the latter allegedly accused Iyanu of extramarital affairs.
The disagreement was said to have degenerated into a scuffle and, during the ensuing dispute, Iyanu allegedly stabbed Funsho in the chest and took him to the hospital, where he was confirmed dead.
Recall that Ogunnaike, who was arrested in October 2024 for killing Mary, had disclosed during an interrogation session that Danjuma aided him in perpetrating the killing.
Ogunnaike was also fingered in the murder of two ladies, one of whom was Akinsanya, whose corpse was dumped on her father’s farmland in the Mile 6 area of Abeokuta.
He had claimed that Danjuma allegedly initiated him into cultism while urging the police to ensure his arrest.
Speaking in an interrogation video obtained by our correspondent on Sunday, Iyanu confessed that she was aware of her husband’s involvement in cultism.
She narrated that after hearing Danjuma was on the police wanted list, she relocated from their Rounder home to a new apartment in Obantoko, where the argument that led to Danjuma’s death took place.
She said, “We’ve always engaged in disputes, but when the disputes became too much and we lost our second child, I left his mum’s place, where we were living in Rounder, to rent an apartment. He added money to pay the rent.
“Sometime in April, he came to the house I rented, and we were living together. He often hid most times because he was a member of the Eiye cult group. I got to know about his involvement in cultism on the day of our second child’s christening after I observed how he was greeting his friends and the song they were playing.
“I heard on the radio that he was wanted for killing and fighting, and during that period, he left my place in June and returned in September. He also left and returned in December, and he had always beaten me whenever he came home.”
Iyanu added that she had suffered domestic abuse from Danjuma, and three days before his death, he visited her new apartment, beat her up, and barred her from going out.
She narrated further that Danjuma, however, permitted her to take their five-year-old daughter to school, and upon her return to the house, he accused her of infidelity.
“What caused our fight on that day was that he accused me of having gone to have sex when I took our daughter to school that morning and that I wanted to go and report him to the police so that they could arrest him, which I denied.
“As soon as I entered the house to pick up my clothes and flee, he locked the door, went to the kitchen, and took a knife. When I realised he was with a knife, I went to the room, where he came and kicked me, strangled my neck, and pointed the knife at me while threatening to kill me.
“I flung his hand, and the knife marked him on his chest. When I realised that he was bleeding, I told him, and he shouted that it is taboo for a knife to cut him. He began searching the house for something like an antidote, but he couldn’t find it.
“He told me that he had been instructed that a knife must not cut him because of a charm he did, whose antidote was with his mother. That was how he slipped, and I rushed out to seek help because I was exhausted from his beating,” Iyanu narrated.
Confirming Danjuma’s link to murder and cultism, the senior police officer disclosed that though he was wanted by the police, the wife was unjustified in killing him.
“Yes, the husband is Danjuma. He has been on the police wanted list because he is a cultist who has been involved in various crimes.
“Though he was a wanted person, the wife has no justification to have killed him. She will be arraigned soon,” the senior police officer said.
Meanwhile, the Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer, Omolola Odutola, when contacted by our correspondent on Saturday, disclosed that she was not aware of any link between the late Funsho and Ogunnaike.
“I don’t know,” Odutola said in a terse response.
