Mother of twins, Bolatito Adeniyi, 25-year-old, has accused her former lover Mayowa Oke of tricking her into disappearing with their twin children Taiwo and Kehinde.
According to Within Nigeria, Bolatito said her former boyfriend broke off their relationship two months into her pregnancy.
She said: “Mayowa (Oke) never provided any financial support throughout my pregnancy.
I stayed with my parents in Irewan in Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State until I was delivered by cesarean section.
Before the caesarean section, my mother was with me in the hospital and my father paid for the medical expenses.
“When my mother called Mayowa’s mother to show her support, she never showed up.
We also called Mayowa; He showed up twice and never dropped any money.
So it was always me, my parents and my sister who looked after the children until they were one year old when their father started visiting them.
“Whenever he visited them, he just bought them drinks or gave them N1,000 and returned home.
Sometime in January 2022, he came to see me and demanded that the children be taken to spend some time with him, but my mother objected because school had resumed.”
Adeniyi said Oke, 36, who left angry, returned on Sunday April 17 when one of the twins was ill.
“During this time he had moved to Ikorodu, Lagos, where he was staying with his local lover, Chioma.
When one of the children was sick, he visited her and said he wanted to take the children to a church in Ikorodu.
“But he drove us to his sister in Sango Ota. I was with his sister when he said he wanted to have lunch with the kids.
After waiting for hours and they didn’t come back, I called him and he said he was already in Ikorodu.
“He told me to wait with his sister and promised to bring the children back on Wednesday.
He never gave me the address of his house in Ikorodu so I had no choice but to wait, but he didn’t come back and that Sunday was the last time I saw my children,” she added.
The offended mother said she reported the matter to Igbeba Police Station, Ijebu-Ode, but “Police at the station charged N100,000 to trace him; They did nothing after we paid N30,000.”
However, she noted that the matter was reported to the Lagos State Department of Justice and referred to the State’s Domestic and Sexual Violence Response Team, from where she was referred to Igbogbo Police Station for investigation.
In a letter sent to the Igbogbo Division police officer on July 22, 2022, DSVRT case manager Mojisola Jack said Oke’s actions constituted domestic violence, “contrary to the provisions of the Domestic Violence Protection Act 2007 and the Penal Code of Lagos State, 2015.”
Adeniyi noted that at Igbogbo Police Station she was referred to a police officer, a certain Juliana, who asked for N30,000 to track down the suspect.
She said she left the train station because she had no money.
“I contacted his girlfriend in Ikorodu, Chioma for her address but she refused to give it out. Mayowa (Oke) took my kids, dumped them with her and she has a baby too.
“Sometimes Mayowa won’t come home for days or drop money to feed the kids.
“He blocked my phone number. I also called his girlfriend in Ajah but she never gave the location in Ikorodu. I want my kids back,” Adeniyi added.
Oke has not taken his calls or responded to a text message sent to his cell phone number at the time of filing this report.
However, his mother said: “I’m aware and I told Bolatito (Adeniyi) that when she calls him, instead of talking to him angrily, she should beg him.
“I told my son and begged him to return the children but he said she (Adeniyi) wouldn’t take care of them.
I don’t know where he lives.”
When contacted, Chioma said, “Did she (Adeniyi) tell you that I knew her before? Has she met me before? I didn’t know her before.”
When asked about Oke’s whereabouts, she ended the conversation.
Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer SP Benjamin Hundeyin said the complainant refused to show up despite being called by the investigating police officer.
Regarding the N30,000 the police officer allegedly demanded, Hundeyin said “this claim was denied by the IPO.”
Ogun State Police Spokesman Abimbola Oyeyemi could not be reached at the time of writing to comment on the matter.
