Landlord Shoots Tenant For Having An Affair With His Wife

36-year-old, Waheed Oyatunde, recently escaped
death after he was shot in the thigh by his
landlord identified as Mr Latunji over his affair
with the landlord's wife.
Latunji owns a block of flats at Ketu Adie Owe
area of Ado Odo/Ota Local Government Area of
Ogun State, which he let out to tenants.
Oyatunde, a native of Abeokuta, the Ogun State
capital, moved into Mr. Latunji's house about
three years ago after he completed his youth
service and got employment with an Agbara,
Ogun State-based multinational company.
The landlord is a member of the vigilance group in
the area. Latunji's wife, Ireti, runs a canteen in
Agbara where Oyatunde works.
Oyatunde, a bachelor, always gave the landlord's
wife a ride in his car to Agbara every morning
since his office is close to the woman's canteen.
This he was doing with the blessing and approval
of the landlord. Ireti is said to have been married
to the landlord for six years but is yet to be
blessed with the fruit of the womb.
Trouble started in the Latunji family sometime in
April, 2013 when it was reported that Oyatunde
and Mrs. Latunji were dating. When news of the
amorous relationship with his wife got to Mr.
Latunji, he confronted his tenant with the rumour.
According to neighbours, when Mr. Latunji
confronted Oyatunde with the allegation that he
was dating his wife, the matter almost
degenerated into an exchange of fisticuffs
between the landlord and his tenant until some
elders in the area intervened.
Since then, Oyatunde has stopped giving the
woman daily morning rides to Agbara. Mr.
Latunji's wife, however, did not take kindly to
being accused of dating her husband's tenant.
She reported the mater to her in-laws, who
prevailed on her husband to put the allegations
behind him.
However, according to neighbours, even though
Oyatunde had stopped taking his landlord's wife
to Agbara in his car, the rumour mill was still
agog with allegations of an amorous relationship
between Oyatunde and his landlord's wife.
The story was that the bachelor was always seen
with his landlord's wife at some hotels in parts of
Lagos State, especially on weekends. The bubble
finally burst on Saturday, July 20, 2013, when
Mrs. Latunji informed her husband that she
would be travelling with her friend to Ekiti State
for a burial ceremony.
A day before that fateful Saturday, Mr. Latunji
had reportedly called his wife's friend to confirm
their purported movement to Ekiti, which the
woman confirmed. But it later turned out that the
Ekiti trip was a hoax after all.
The landlord's wife left home early on Saturday
morning for the purported weekend trip. Her
suspicious husband hired three hoodlums to trail
her movement. The three hoodlums rode on two
motorcycles behind the bus the woman boarded
from Lusada junction to Agbara. It was reported
that the woman also boarded another bus from
Agbara to Mile 2 area of Lagos State and the
'spies' still rode behind the bus the woman
boarded.
Eventually, Mrs. Latunji reportedly found her way
to a hotel in Surulere area in the heart of Lagos
State. It was reported that Oyetunde's car was
also found in the parking lot of the hotel. The
hired 'spies' promptly informed their client on
telephone of the development.
An enraged Mr. Latunji left home and headed for
the hotel in Lagos. A couple of hours later, he
arrived at the hotel and he told the receptionist
he was on appointment with owner of the
Hyundai car parked at the lot.
A waiter at the hotel, who spoke with Saturday
Mirror on condition of anonymity, continued the
story, "When the man came that Saturday
morning, he approached the boys at the reception
that he wanted to see the owner of the car whose
plate number he wrote for them.
When asked to call him on his mobile phone, the
man claimed that the visitor's mobile phone was
switched off. So, the boys felt that he was a
genuine visitor and one of them chose to take
him to the room where the visitor lodged.
"When the boy knocked on the door, the visitor
came to open the door. And when he did, he was
shocked to see his landlord standing right in front
of the door.
The landlord's wife was on the bed sleeping. That
was when trouble started." Mr. Latunji forced his
way into the room and aimed a stool at his wife.
But Oyatunde and the hotel attendant prevented
Mr. Latunji from hitting his wife with the stool.
The noise from the room soon attracted other
workers of the hotel to the scene. After much
persuasion, Mr. Latunji was whisked out of the
hotel and he left for his house.
Both Oyatunde and Ireti hurriedly left the hotel.
The woman has not shown her face back home
since then. Knowing that the game was up,
Oyatunde went to his apartment in Latunji's
house on Tuesday, July 23, 2013, apparently to
move his belongings out of the house.
That was the opportunity Latunji had been
waiting for. Once Oyatunde opened the door to
his apartment and started packing his property,
Latunji burst into the apartment and engaged
Oyatunde in a fight.
The brawling men were soon separated by
neighbours, only for Latunji to rush into his
apartment and emerge moments later with a
loaded gun. He aimed at Oyatunde's thigh and
pulled the trigger.
A neighbour, who pled anonymity, said Oyatunde
was lucky to have lived to tell the story. "The
landlord could have killed the man. But we thank
God that did not happen," the neighbour said.
Oyatunde was rushed to an undisclosed hospital.
The landlord has since fled his house with a 10-
year-old son he had from another relationship.
Saturday Mirror could not get Ogun State Police
Command spokesman, Muyiwa Adejobi to confirm
the story. A source at the Eleweran office of the
command claimed that the matter was reported
but that he had no details of it.