Crime Story: Landlord shoots tenant for having an affair with his wife.... Men are not Smilin!!! one man one woman!!!

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.
 
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