Alhaji Kasali Mumuni, 41, has been arrested for allegedly
burning the stomachs of his two children, Maryam, 9, and Ojonla, 6, with
hot knife in Owo, Ondo State .
Kasali has been married thrice
but report had it that none of his wives stayed with him for more than
three years before they were sent packing with their children. .
Vanguardngr
gathered that Kasali left home that fateful day for work, only to
return to discover that the only fish in the pot had been eaten.
It
was learnt that one of the children took half of the fish in the pot
and, when their step- mother returned from where she sells herbs, she
ate the remaining half.
Meanwhile, when the father of the
house came much later and his food was served without fish, hell was let
loose. The step-mother, who allegedly was not comfortable with the
continued stay of the two children in the house, was said to have heaped
the blame on the kids.
Narrating what she and her
sibling went through, Maryam said it was actually true that Ojonla ate
half of the piece of fish in the pot and that when their step-mother
returned from her shop, she ate the other half.
Maryam said
that their father beat them mercilessly and later went into the kitchen
to light the stove and put a knife on it. “When the knife was hot and
turned red, he pressed it on our stomachs one after the other. .
We
cried and begged but our father refused to remove the knife. Our
neighbors, who heard our cries, rushed to the scene only to be told by
our father that they should mind their businesses.
He held
us down for several minutes as the knife was pressed on our stomachs."
Neighbors later informed officials of the Nigeria Security and Civil
Defence Corps (NSCDC) who rushed to the scene and rescued them.
Kasali
has since been arrested and the mother of the two children, who
relocated to Ila Orangun, Osun State, after her divorce from the
suspect, is back in Akure to take care of them.
