She is 30 years old but that did not stop her
secret love affair with a 78-year-old politician,
Adedayo Deru. But on September 30, 2014, it all
ended – the man collapsing while on top her and
died on the spot.
In a case that has underscored the thin line
between pleasure and pain, Deru went from a
steamy s*xual session on his lover’s bed to a
roadside where his corpse was dumped after his
death.
The woman in the eye of the storm, Ijimo
Ibrahim, a hairdresser, was still finding it
difficult to explain her situation to police
investigators at the Department of Criminal
Investigation of the Ogun State Police Command,
Abeokuta.
While confessing, she said, “He came as usual
on September 30 around 9am. I was on my
way out of the house; I was going to work
already that day. But he met me as I got out of
the door and said he was visiting me.
“I told him I could spare some hours before I
left for work, so I went back inside with
him. As soon as we got in, he stripped and I
did the same. It was just one round of s*x that
we had and I don’t know why that could have
killed him…
The police want to know how her lover died and
how his body got to a roadside in the night.
When Punch visited on Wednesday, Ijimo
Ibrahim, who was never married, has two
children with two other men. Sitting on the floor
with agony etched on her face, Ibrahim narrated
how her lover, who was married to another
woman, died.
“He only came for s*x in the mornings so that his
wife would not suspect,” the fair complexioned
woman said, as her face revealed that she would
prefer not to relive the sordid details of the
affair.
The late Deru and Ms Ibrahim met six years ago
in Odogbolu, she said.
“There was a day I was with him. We had s*x
but the wife caught us. So, I had to leave the
town shortly after. I went to Lagos to work as an
apprentice hairdresser,” she said.
According to Ibrahim, after her apprenticeship
and a love affair in Lagos that resulted in a child,
she was back in Odogbolu, where another love
affair resulted in another child.
“None of the fathers of my children were good.
They never took care of me or the children. I
turned to the only person who has been really
helpful to me. My lover (Deru) was a good man.
He helped me anytime I called on him.
“When we reconnected after I got back from
Lagos, we continued our love affair secretly
because he was always there when I needed
help.”
Asked what sort of help Deru rendered, Ms
Ibrahim said he sometimes gave her foodstuffs or
money for food, which she said was up to N1,000
on each occasion.
So, she and Deru enjoyed a s*xual experience
that endured until their final encounter, which
has put her in police net as a murder suspect.
“Our lovemaking was not even that long. He
started complaining that he was not feeling fine.
He said he was feeling tired and dizzy. Shortly
after, he collapsed and stopped breathing.”
When Deru became unresponsive, Ms Ibrahim
said she became frightened.
Confused about what to do next, she dialled the
telephone number of a male relation, explaining
what had happened.
“My brother (the relation) told me to calm down,
promising to come to my aid later that afternoon
so that we could decide on what to do. But when
I did not see him by evening, I realised he had
run away and switched off his mobile telephone
in fear,” she said.
She had to turn to another acquaintance who
eventually agreed to help her dispose of the
body. “We thought if I reported to the police, I
would be in serious trouble. I didn’t know I was
making a terrible decision.”
It was around 3am the following day that
disposed of Deru’s body with the help of a
motorcycle rider living in her house.
The motorcyclist, Benjamin Friday, who tried his
best to present his version of the events that led
to his involvement in disposing of the body, said
he had no idea that Deru was already dead.
“When they woke me up to help them carry a
body, I was told it was her (Ibrahim’s) elderly
relation. I was really sleepy, they only told me he
was ill and they wanted to dump his body on a
roadside so that he would not die in her house,”
he said.
Asked how he could possibly help carry a body
and would not know whether it was that of a
dead man, Friday said he was sleepy at the time.
“I told them I would not touch the man’s body.
Someone sat behind me supporting the man’s
body. I only drove them to the roadside. They
put the body down and I left.”
Also in police custody was a photographer friend
of Ms Ibrahim, Funmilayo Moyegun, who said she
was only requested to be there “to take his
(Deru’s) photograph.”
“I only held the lamp when the body was being
dumped,” she said.
Deru’s body was said to have been dumped about
100 metres away from his lover’s house on
Oladipo Diya Road, Odogbolu.
The police were called to the scene when the
body was found by residents of the area.
Police PRO in the state, Muyiwa Adejobi, said
after a thorough investigation, the body was
eventually traced to Ibrahim. “We would
determine how the man died and whether her
version of the story correlates with the
circumstances of the death,” Adejobi said.
He revealed that an autopsy would help the
police determine the level of culpability of Ms
Ibrahim.
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