A woman, identified simply as Dunni, is currently on the run after she allegedly stabbed her business partner in the neck. Dunni, 32, is a single mother and lives at Ilaro area of Ogun State.
A native of Igbesa, in Ogun State, Dunni reportedly smuggles goods from Lome and Cotonou into Idi Iroko area of the state where she has a shop.
Dunni parted ways with her husband in 2009, while she took custody of their seven year-old son. Before her divorce, Dunni lived with her husband at Alakuko area of Lagos State. It was her separation from her husband that made her relocate to Ilaro.
Upon arriving Ilaro in 2010, Dunni was introduced to Ajoke Akinnusi, also a trader in smuggled goods from neighbouring countries.
When Dunni was introduced to Ajoke back in 2010, the two reportedly agreed to combine their resources for a joint business. They both shared proceeds from their trade. That had been going on without problems until this crisis which started sometime in May, 2013.
According to reports, towards the end of May 2013, Ajoke travelled to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. Ajoke was reportedly introduced to the Dubai trip by her cousin, who is said to be based in the far eastern country. Ajoke stayed 26 days in Dubai while her partner, Dunni ran the business in Nigeria.
Ajoke returned to Nigeria on Thursday, May 30, 2013, from her Dubai trip. The following Monday, Ajoke was back in the Idi-Iroko shop she shared with Dunni.
She was in for the shock of her life. Her business partner had moved all the goods in the shop to another shop. All attempts by Ajoke to locate Dunni were futile as her two telephone numbers were reportedly off. The search for Ajoke took about two weeks before she was located somewhere in Sango area of Ado Odo/Ota Local Government Area of Ogun State.
When Ajoke confronted her on why she moved the goods out of their shop at Idi Iroko, Dunni reportedly told her that the shop owner gave her quit notice to leave the shop. But Ajoke was not convinced about her friend's defence, insist ing that Dunni deliberately changed her phone lines.
Ajoke decided that it was time for their joint business to be split. When it was time to discuss the sharing of the goods Ajoke left in the shop before she travelled to Dubai, Dunni told her that she only had 50 bags of rice and 5 bags of beans left before she travelled.
This drew the ire of Ajoke who protested that the total cost of her goods in the shop before she travelled amounted to N500, 000. But Dunni insisted that that was not the worth of the goods she left in the shop.
The two women soon got into a fight. Dunni reportedly grabbed a knife from a neighbourng shop and stabbed her business associate in the neck leaving a deep cut on Ajoke's neck. Ajoke slumped and was rushed to a hospital at Ifo, Ogun State.
An eyewitness, indeed the woman from whose shop the assault knife was picked, said, "It was like a joke when the two women started the argument. Initially no one looked their way until they started beating each other.
That was when we all rushed there to separate them. Before we could separate them, Aunty Dunni ran into my shop, came out with my knife and stabbed her friend.
I don't know exactly what caused their fight." Moments after Ajoke was rushed to the hospital, Dunni locked her shop, claiming she was going to the hospital to see how Ajoke was doing. She was not seen at the hospital and has not ben seen in the area since then. Her shop has remained under lock and key.
