01/09/2025
The Story you are about to read is a real life story of a Nigerian Man, Hassan Adeyemo and His Wife Sarah Adeyemo.
IN THE BEGINNING
The couple met in Ibadan, Oyo State in 1998 when Hassan was a 21-year-old Nigerian soldier and Sarah who is from Bauchi State was 18 years old. It was love at first sight.
They got married about nine years later, in 1999 precisely and God blessed them with five children over the course of the years.
Hassan loved his wife so much and prevented her from working because he didn’t want her going through undue stress. He provided her and the children with everything they ever wanted.
In 2014, Hassan wanted a better life for his family, so with his wife’s agreement, he decided to send them to America. Before they got to America, Hassan already arranged a rented house and a car for them.
Sarah was still not working when they relocated as Hassan continued to play his role as a provider, sending them money for their upkeep from Nigeria every month.
Despite the distance, Hassan bonded with his wife and kids. Everyone was happy.
In 2017, Hassan, who had missed his family so much, decided to relocate to America and stay with them. Before Hassan got to America, Sarah had started a hair braiding business just to keep herself busy when the kids were in school. Everyone loved her and the way she braided beautiful styles.
Gradually, she became a household name in Orlando. Ladies flooded her place to do their hair.
What she began for the fun of it became something big overnight.
Hassan entered the US, and things were going smoothly.
Despite being comfortable back home in Nigeria, Hassan decided to start all over with menial jobs. He had no papers yet, so he was left with doing jobs that paid him peanuts.
WHEN THE TIDE CHANGED
A year after he arrived in the US, they welcomed their fifth child, a baby girl. By this time, Sarah was making at least $1,000 a day with the help of her daughters who she had trained. She was very fast and efficient in braiding hair. With this income, she was able to support the family with all expenses because Hassan’s income couldn’t meet up with the bills.
Eventually, Hassan got his papers and started to drive Uber and do delivery jobs. He worked from morning to night and started contributing his quota to the family, but his contributions were like change to what his wife was making.
In effect, Sarah became the breadwinner of the house.
She became the children’s favorite because she gave them everything they asked for, while their dad could not meet up.
Sarah’s attitude then changed. She entered the house whenever she wished. She became the boss, always calling Hassan lazy and useless, while Hassan always appealed to her for peace to reign as he didn’t like trouble in any form being a gentle man.
Sarah and the children formed a clique in the house and abandoned their dad to always sort himself out.
Sarah stopped cooking for him.
Hassan became depressed and was always begging friends and family members to help talk to his wife. He cried most times like a baby, saying Sarah made him feel less of a man in the house. His friends encouraged him to persevere and ignore whatever she did.
In January 2022, Sarah announced to Hassan that she had bought a house. They moved into the new house, and she continued to treat him very badly. She disrespected him so much and would sometimes tell him, “Leave my house if you cannot obey me, you irresponsible man.”
She locked him out in the cold so many times and threw his things out.
The children were on their mother’s side because she was the provider.
Hassan became very depressed and started having suicidal thoughts. He told his friends how unfair life is to him and that spoke of killing himself. They advised him to leave the marriage because it was obvious that his wife was no longer in love with him.
But he kept on asking, “Where will I start from? I love my wife. A woman I have invested all my life in. The only woman I ever loved. What did I do to deserve this from her?”
In April 2023, Sarah told him she had bought another house specifically for her and her customers. She told Hassan to hold onto the boys while the girls followed her to the new house.
Hassan wondered why she wanted to separate the family.
“If everyone followed me to the new house, it would disturb my customers,” she explained.
She then told the husband that he could bring the boys over for weekends, but he couldn’t come with them because she needed her privacy.
People tried to talk to Sarah, but she wouldn’t listen.
Hassan agreed to her terms, hoping that she would change her mind eventually.
On August 21, 2023, Sarah informed Hassan that she would like for her sons to move in with her, while Hassan remains in the old house. She instructed Hassan to move all of her remaining property, and that of the children from the old house where Hassan was staying to the new one, where she lives.
She then told Hassan that whenever he wished to see the children, he should let her know, so she can arrange for the visits.
Hassan told her he would do as she had instructed, which he did.
Sarah didn’t let him enter the house. She took all the belongings he brought and the boys and left Hassan outside. Hassan remained at the door for almost an hour knocking. Sarah refused to open the door for him.
The following day, August 26, was Hassan’s 46th birthday. Early that morning, Sarah sent him a message, “Happy Birthday friend, we are better off as friends than lovers. You need to look for where you’ll be staying, because I have to get rid of the old house. I wish you well in life, I have moved on.”
A few hours later, the children called their dad to get some groceries, and he told them he would bring them in the evening.
At about 6:30 PM, he called the kids, that he was on his way to the house with the groceries. When he got there, he knocked, and the children opened the door for him.
Hassan then asked for their mom. They told him she was in the shower.
He entered, and went to the bathroom, brought out a gun, and shot her in the head, in the chest, and in the leg.
He then called 911.
“Hello, I just killed the bitch. This is the address, I am waiting for you,” he said.
He then sat down on the floor beside Sarah’s body.
The cops came, and the first responders rushed Sarah who was still breathing to the hospital. She died two hours after she got to the hospital.
Hassan is now behind bars at the Orange County Jail in Florida. He is most likely facing a death sentence or life in prison without parole.
VERY SAD!
©️The Street Jorunal
