OGUN STATE-(MaraviPost)-Tope Akinola from Ogun state, Nigeria has been arrested for killing her two-day-old granddaughter using Sniper (an insecticide).
The forty-seven-year-old grandmother admitted to have committed the crime in the hospital after the birth of the child. Tope disclosed that she committed the crime due to financial problems as the father of the child was no where to be seen to provide support to the newborn baby.
As reported by The Punch Newspaper, Tope said: “I never set my eyes on her (Seun’s) partner until the day she gave birth. Only her mother came to meet me and that was after he got my daughter pregnant. I gave the baby the insecticide to drink because of my financial problems.
“I don’t have money to take care of the baby and her mother. I was even the one that gave her money when she was going to the clinic. I gave her money twice for medical bills and since I didn’t have money to give her again, I couldn’t be going to beg on the streets”
When asked about her action, Tope said she never knew what she was about to do was wrong until she had done it.
She continued to explain that no human being can run faster than their destiny and everything belongs to God.
The woman is also reported to have asked her daughter, Seun Akinola to abort the child when she was pregnant but later warned by her pastor against her action.
Meanwhile, the court is waiting for the day to deliver her sentence.
