A woman from Delta State who effectively hid her
adulterous relationship from her husband, Lekan
Onipede, is now on the run after she viciously
attacked him with boiling water and pursued him
with a knife.
The woman, Rosemary David, had a son for Onipede,
a 31-year-old indigene of Ondo State, about 11 years
ago, when he was 20. While still living with him
under the concept of common law marriage, and in
what would appear to be a case of polyandry, she
allegedly hooked up with another man in Delta State
and had two other children (a boy and a girl) with
the man, and then passed them off as Onipede's
children.
Over the years, David perfectly juggled the two
'husbands' in Ondo and Delta states, co-habiting
with one or the other in a near seamless manner
until the bubble burst, and set the stage for the
heinous attack on Onipede after accusing him of
adultery.
The tale began when David who was living with her
parents in Ore, Ondo State, got into a relationship
with Onipede and became pregnant.
SunNews reports:
With Onipede insistent on not allowing her abort the
pregnancy, she dropped out of school and later gave
birth to a baby boy. After the birth of the baby,
Onipede relocated to Lagos to study at a technical
school and also seek means of earning income to
support David and the baby. While Onipede
struggled to find his feet in Lagos, David alternated
between living with her parents and Onipedes'
parents in Ondo State on the one hand and her aunt
in Delta State on the other hand.
Two years later, Onipede completed his training at
the technical school at Abule-Ado, Lagos State, got
a job and then invited David to come and live with
him. This began their 'marital' journey. A few weeks
later, David informed him that she was pregnant.
Quite upset with the news, Onipede expressed his
displeasure, but promised to do his utmost to cater
for the family.
As it would later turn out, David regularly traveled to
Delta State to visit her aunt and her mother, during
which she would stay for three weeks or one month.
She continued to make the frequent visits to Delta
State until she gave birth to a third child.
The first twist in the tale occurred four years ago,
when Onipede and his elder brother attended a
wedding in Delta State, where they met one of the
brothers of David and his friend named Okey.
When Okey learnt that David was married to Onipede,
he laughed scornfully and said: "Okay, let's see after
the wedding because we have something to talk
about." Okey exchanged numbers with Onipede and
they kept in touch.
When the duo spoke, Okey told Onipede that his
'wife' had another husband in Delta State. Despite
the protestations of Onipede, Okey challenged him to
trail David to Delta whenever she embarks on another
visit to the state. Still unbelieving, he did not act on
the advice until the 2014 Easter period when David
traveled to Delta State with the third baby.
Onipede called Okey, who urged him not to believe
David's story of going to visit her aunt. Acting on
this advice, Onipede trailed David to Delta State and
spent three days searching for her. On the third day,
he finally saw her with another man. Heartbroken,
Onipede returned to Lagos the same day, after
discovering his wife's infidelity.
Recalling what he overheard in the bar that night,
Onipede told Sunday Sun:
"As I sat at the bar monitoring my wife, one of
the men seated there said that he did know
what Rosemary always went to do in Lagos.
Every time, she would go to Lagos and leave
her husband here at home. I am sure it is
because of the first wife of the man she is
married to. I returned home, I took my two
children that Rosemary left behind for blood
test since DNA test is expensive. The only
child who had the same blood group as my
was the first child I had with Rose in
secondary school. When she came back from
Delta, I told her that I got a new job and said
that she should go and do a blood group test
as the company required the whole family to
do such. When she did it, the second and
third children had the same blood group but it
was not the same with their mother's blood
group or mine. That was when I knew the
children were not mine."
Based on this discovery, Onipede told David he
didn't want anything to do with her again. She left
for her parent's place in Ore with the children.
Despite the separation he continued to cater for the
children. Then one day David called and said she
wanted to visit Lagos to buy jewellery and sell in
Ore, Ondo State. Out of a sense of
charity, Onipede said he invitOndo State. Out of a
sense of ed her to stay in his apartment to ease her
accommodation problem while in Lagos. Upon her
arrival, she tried to perform her wifely duties, like
cooking and cleaning. To discourage her, he casually
mentioned that he was in a relationship with a young
lady, who was already pregnant for him and would
give birth soon.
The revelation enraged David and she extracted the
lady's number from Onipede's phone. She then called
and threatened her. David allegedly made several
unsuccessful efforts to start up a fight between her
and Onipede. On Friday of that week, he left for work
and deliberately stayed back in the office to avoid
her. But on Saturday night she called him and
pleaded with Onipede to return home because she
needed money to make up her fare to Delta State.
The next day, he went home and gave her the money
she wanted and laid down on a settee in the room to
rest.
It was at this point that David made her Jezebelic
move. From behind, she poured a pot of boiling
water on his back. When he screamed and turned
towards her, she did the same to his stomach. With
his body severely scalded, Onipede rushed out,
calling his landlady for assistance. She advised him
to go to the Police station to file a report. Mounting
his motorcycle, Onipede headed to the police station
as David continued to rain curses on him. Enraged
that he left her in the house, David allegedly picked
up a knife, flagged down a motorcyclist and
instructed him to follow Onipede's motorcycle. With
both motorcycles trapped in traffic, she continued to
hurl insults on Onipede while passers-by watched
her. Soon enough, people who didn't know the facts
joined in insulting him for sleeping with a prostitute
and not paying her. The apparent support of the by-
standers fueled David's anger, prompting her to pick
up a plank by the roadside and almost hit him with
it before she was over-powered by some men who
promised to deal with him instead. As the argument
was still going on, Rose brought out the knife and
tried to stab him. Upon seeing that she had been
held back, Onipede told the sudden roadside jury
that David was his wife and he was heading to the
hospital to treat burns he got after she poured hot
water on him. Instantly, the people turned against
her and forcefully dragged her to Area K Police
Station, Okokomaiko.
She was promptly arrested, detained and asked to
make a written statement. As this progressed,
Onipede's burn wounds had become critical
necessitating the police to transfer him to Ikeja
General Hospital, where he was given proper medical
attention.
The next twist in the tale happened when the brother
of the lady, who is a policeman attached to the
Iyana-Ira Police Station allegedly facilitated her
release by taking somebody else to the station to
secure bail for her. Though David promised at the
police station to apologise to Onipede, she never did
so or bother to visit him at the hospital.
"I never knew she was going to react like this or
even get angry. We are no longer together so I was
shocked when she took the news personal and
attacked me with hot water. Actually I saw the pot in
the bedroom but I never checked what was in it,"
Onipede said, recalling that terrible day.
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