COMPULSORY MARRIAGE SEASON 2: EPISODES 21 – 30

Compulsory Marriage

Season 2 Episode 27

Lying on our bed was my wife in her own pool of blood with kitchen knife stuck to her lower abdomen. I rushed to the bed, she was still gasping for life. Just little by little, I removed the knife from her stomach and tied cloth round
it in order to stop the flow of blood. I lifted her up straight to my car as I was shouting.
My neighbours that were in the compound rushed down to me and helped me out, in fact
they didn’t allow me to drive.
We arrived at a nearby hospital in our area but she was rejected. We were referred to
Ayinke House (Lasuth) in Ikeja. We arrived Ikeja by past 9 and luckily for us she was quickly taken to the emergency ward. I didn’t even know what to do agai. My neighbours
collected my phone and had to call my dad that we were at the hospital. My mum arrived later in the night..

Mum : what happened? What is wrong with Biola?
Me: I don’t know mum, i don’t know oo
Mum: where is she now?
Me: She’s with the doctor at the theatre, they want to operate her
Mum: Operate ke? What happened
Me: I went to cut my hair this evening. When I came back to the hous, I saw her on the
bed in her own pool of blood with knife stuck in her stomach
Mum: who stabbed her?
Me: I don’t know mummy
Mum: Did she commit suicide?
Me: why would she commit suicide? For what? In
fact she was cooking, I was the one that put off the cooker when I entered the house and
heard the smell of burnt food
Mum: So, what could have happened? Abi iru
kileleyi ke…..God please come to our aid oo
Me: Am tired mum..what is all this
“we were still at the corridor discussing with
my mum when we saw someone that look like Biola’s mum approaching, she was actually
the one, she was with Biola junior sister. I started wondering how she knew we were at Lasuth that night. Doctor approached us that same time”
Doctor: Why did it take you guys so much time before bringing her down here?
Me: we brought her immediately it happened
Doctor: well, we tried our best but its so unfortunate that we lost her
Biola’s Mum: Lost kini? What do you mean doctor?
Doctor: Am so sorry, she gave up the ghost during the surgery ooo
Biola’s Mum: Mo ku oooooo……ina omo jo mi oooo…o ti pami lomo, you killed my daughter,
now you have killed her, you have killed her abi, now its good like this, you have led me
well….where is baba Biola ooooo…..am dead
ooo (she held my cloth so tight and was dragging me).

My mother didn’t even know what to say. Every one of us was crying seriously. Not quite
long, they took somebody on a bed which look like her corpse. I was still deliberating on what next to do when Biola’s dad arrived late that
night with some policemen. “Officer, this is the
killer” said her father, “Oga, you are under arrest for the murder of Mz Abiola. You need
to remain silent because whatever you say will
be used against you in the court of Law”…

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