A prosecution witness, Inspector Simeon
Kunamon, in the ongoing trial of the murder of a
three-week-old baby, Princess Happiness Moses,
yesterday told a Lagos High Court sitting at
Igbosere how a motorcycle rider, popularly known
as Okada, Ilaya Peters, was paid N5,000 to
murder the baby.
Kunamon, who was led in evidence by the state
prosecuting counsel, Ebere Agu, testified that the
baby’s father, Moses Joseph, who is attached to
Nigerian Navy, Amuwo Odofin, paid the defendant
and others at large the said sum to forcibly take
the baby from her mother, which he threw into
the lagoon.
The witness, who gave testimony before Justice
Raliatu Adebiyi, told the judge how the baby was
forcibly taken from her mother, Gloria Yusuf, at
about 1a.m. at her residence at 8, Odofin Close,
Ajegunle, and thrown into the lagoon.
Kunamon also told the court that Moses
organised some thugs on February 2, 2012, to
steal the baby from the mother and deliver to him
at Liverpool, where she was thrown into the
lagoon in a peak milk cartoon, adding that the
deceased baby’s body could not be recovered.
According to him, trouble started when Gloria
Yusuf, mother of the baby told Moses, her lover
of one year, that she was pregnant, and that
Moses asked her to terminate the pregnancy,
which she refused.
This, according to him, made her to pack out of
the house and rented an apartment at Ajegunle,
until she gave birth on January 13, 2012, to a
baby girl she named Princess Happiness Moses.
He said the baby was killed on February 2, 2012,
at about 1a.m., four weeks after the father of the
baby paid her a visit.
The defendant had earlier been arraigned on a
two-count charge bordering on conspiracy and
murder preferred against him by Lagos State.
He, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges
against him as Justice Adebiyi adjourned the
matter to February 18, 2015.
Culled from Vanguard.
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