'I killed my mother. She was a witch. She killed my sister'
By Odita Sunday
THERE was nothing to suggest remorse.
She looked calm and seemed in full control of her senses.
Not even the suggestion that she may be of unsound mind carried weight anymore when , in a clear voice, Adebukola Adefisayo brazenly stated: "I am not a suspect . I am a murderer." When she spoke those words at the Lagos Police Command Headquarters, Ikeja yesterday, someone said: "She has confessed. The police have had their job made much easier."
Making their job much easier was not what the 26-year old Adebukola had in mind when she left Nigeria for the United States of America at the age of 15.
Over there, she attended college and also gave birth to two children who have been adopted in the USA.
What she confessed to was the willful murder of her own mother , Mrs,Adedoyin Williams.
The young woman who also admitted to have become addicted to illicit drugs, gave a no-holds-barred account of her life, her relationship with her mother and what led her to murder.
"I have never been married , but I have two kids, a boy and a girl.
The boy is Remilekun and my daughter is Omotolani. Their father is a Red Indian , Malik Smith" she narrated to journalists.
"In 2007, I had a problem when I fought with a neighbour over the laundry machine in the basement.
We had a big fight and I had to defend myself with a knife, so I was charged for murder.
"My mother helped me by getting a lawyer and the judge set me free because he said I was within my rights.
When I got out of jail, I went to Las Vegas for a while because I was on probation.
From there, I called my mum because I was on drugs.I was on cocaine and I was going through a lot.
"I called my mum and told her and she said I should come back to Nigeria and I came back home" said Bukola.
She continued : " When I came back, my mother couldn't give me a job. She has a big house. She has got everything going for her but she wouldn't give me a job and I kept on asking for money from her .
"One day , she said she didn't want me to be asking her for money any more and so gave me a job as a real estate agent.
" Everything was going on fine , until I realized my mum was always writing cheques for her sister to the tune of N3 million and N5 million. So I asked her: " Mum , can I get a cheque for such an amount to start my life all over again ?"
But she kept telling me she would do that in due course .
"One night, I went to smoke some weeds and I came home and had a flash back to when my uncle raped me when I was a little girl.
I called our little house boy, Segun and told him: 'Could you imagine my uncle raping me when I was a kid?' and he started to cry.
When I asked him what was wrong, he didn't say anything.
I kept questioning the boy and he told me my mother slept with him.
"That really hurt my feelings. My mum was not at home so I had to smoke some cocaine and the little boy said to me : 'Mummy gives me this to smoke too' "
Adebukola said she believed the boy when he told her he had been introduced to drugs by her mother whom she said also slept with the little boy of 10
Her words: "I believed him when he said that because my mummy gave me my first cocaine when I was only nine years old.
Immediately, I lit seven candles and I opened my Bible to Isaiah 11.
"Then I put up the pictures of all my family members.
My mummy walked into the house at about 8.45pm and that is spiritual because I am spiritual.
"She called me "Okan me" which means "my husband" because that is what she usually called me.
She said:" Okan me , have I offended you ?".
She asked me to sit down and told me she would tell me anything that I wanted to know.
I stopped crying, wiped my tears and begged her to answer my question and she said she was ready to do that.
"I said : 'Mummy are you a witch?'
She was silent for a while and then after some time, answered: 'Yes I am'.
She said she had been involved in witchcraft . I started crying and asked her why she would do that and she said people made mistakes, that I should forgive her".
Adebokola continued: "So I asked her another question which I urged her to answer.
"I said : " Mummy , who killed Bunmi?.
" Bunmi was my kid sister but she is late now. My mum told me she killed her for rituals to make money . We used to be so broke but all of a sudden , we became very rich.
" Immediately, I jumped on her and we started fighting. She bit me. We were breaking things in the house because we were fighting seriously. She even promised to write me a N2million cheque if I left her alone.
"But I was angry . I told her she had done very bad things .
I hit her with a sledge hammer and she died. I killed her. I am not a suspect. I am a murderer. My mum introduced me to drugs. She introduced me to it until I became an addict.
No one can take me to a rehabilitation centre now because even my mum was into drugs.
My mother separated from my dad when I was seven years old.
"I loved her but she messed up".
Lagos State Police spokesman, Mr. Frank Mba said the police needed the assistance of a psychiatrist to know the state of Adebukola's mind .
He said for now, the Commissioner of Police has ordered the Aguda Police Station where the incident was reported to hasten investigation and transfer the matter to the Homicide Division, State Criminal Investigation Department in Panti, Yaba, so that much more elaborate investigations can take place.
The police spokesman said:"Bukola checked into a hotel somewhere in Surulere with their house boy.
While she was there, she put a call to her sister in the United States about what she had done.
The sister probably thought it was a joke.
"After trying to reach their mum and she could not, she called another person here in Nigeria to go and check their home and know what was wrong.
"It was then they discovered the woman's body which had been there for more than two days. The dead woman , Adedoyin Williams, was 62 years old", Mba said.
