Wife Hides Husband’s Dead Body Indoors For Three Years In Lagos

How is it possible for a corpse to be hidden indoors for three years? That
is the big question on the lips of neighbours at the Ifako-Ijaiye residence
of a 60 year old woman identified as Mrs. Joy Olatunji Shittu.


Together with her two daughters, Aishat and Toyin have been arrested by
the police at Ojokoro Division. The matter is now under criminal
investigation at the State Criminal Investigation Department, SCID,
Panti, Yaba, Lagos.


The sad incident happened at their family house at 14b, Olaitan
Mustapha, off Clem road, Ifako-Ijaiye, Ojokoro area of Lagos.


It was learnt that the deceased, Jimoh Olatunji Shittu, died in 2012 under
strange circumstances.


But when queried, the bereaved wife said that her late hubby was sick for
eight years before he died. And when they took him to Delta State to
bury him on his land he bought there, they discovered that the land been
sold to another person who prevented them from buring him there
Following a tip-off from neighbours, Policemen from the Ojokoro Police
Division stormed the residence and arrested the family.


A source said that the mother and her daughters had employed the
regular use of chemicals to embalm the dead bodies in a room.


Neighbours said that they were the only occupants of a block of four
flats.


Another neighbour said that since 2012 when the man died, four of his
children have also died in a suspicious circumstances.


Curiously, investigations revealed that Joy told the police that she did
not tell her husband's family about his death because she was not in
cordial relationship with them.


The police retrieved the corpse and deposited it at a mortuary for autopsy
and arrested the three suspects and immediately transferred them to SCID, Panti