A Magistrates Court in Oyo State has fixed February 14 to decide the fate of a pastor, who allegedly cut off his wife’s breast. Sixty-one-year-old Pastor Adejare Adebayo had been remanded in Agodi Prison in Ibadan for allegedly cutting off his wife’s left breast with a kitchen knife at midnight.
Adebayo allegedly told family members that he had helped his wife to cut the other affected breast because she had earlier suffered cancer in her right breast.
He was arraigned before Chief Magistrate F. Richard of Ibadan Magistrates’ Court over one-count charge, for which he pleaded not guilty.
The deceased, Mrs. Risikayat Adegbule, 43, was said to have died few days later as a result of the excruciating pain she suffered after losing one of her breasts. The defendant was the pastor in charge of Glory Triumphant Chapel, Tose Area, Moniya, in Ibadan.
The Prosecutor, Mr. Sunday Ogunremi, had told the court that Adebayo had on December 24, 2016, at 12 a.m, at Onikankan village in Ibadan unlawfully caused the death of Rukayat Adegbule by cutting off her breast.
Ogunremi stated that the defendant committed an offence contrary to Section 316 and punishable under Vol. 11 Section 319 of the Criminal Code, Cap IX Vol. 11 of the Laws of Oyo State.
The chief magistrate ordered that the accused be remanded in Agodi Prison and adjourned further hearing to February 14. Adebayo had allegedly taken his deceased wife to an unknown place for weeks before he resurfaced with the news of her death.
“Further investigation revealed that the family members of the deceased had been looking for her only to be called later by the husband informing them of her death,” the prosecutor said.
