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Banker Allegedly Tortures Wife to Death in Lagos… See Heartbreaking Details

Banker Allegedly Tortures Wife to Death in Lagos… See Heartbreaking Details

Olaoluwa Adejo, a 32-year-old bank worker has been nabbed by the Lagos State Police Command for the death of his 28-year-old wife, Maureen, at their home on Peluola Street, Oworonshoki, Bariga, Lagos State.

Olaoluwa was alleged to have tortured his wife of five years with a belt, as well as cutting her with a machete.

Their 5-year-old son, Richard, who witnessed the incident, said that his father also forced a local insecticide, otapiapia (Sniper), down the throat of his mother, according to PUNCH Metro.

“My daddy beat my mummy with a belt; machete her here (shows arms), machete her here (shows legs). He used the belt on her here (points at face); forced my mummy to drink otapiapia (insecticide). My daddy took my mummy away.

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My daddy said my mummy should get out of the house. My mummy said no. In the night, my daddy woke my mummy up and said, ‘Mosquito is too much, let me go and buy otapiapia’. My daddy forced my mummy to drink it. She shook her head. She vomited.

My daddy slapped my mummy. My mummy did not do anything to him. My daddy gave her one blow. My daddy kicked her. Small blood came out.

My daddy slapped her, kicked her, machete her, blow her, and put otapiapia in her mouth and in the food,” Richard said.

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Mrs. Kate Jonathan, the deceased’s mother explained that her daughter had packed out of her matrimonial house five days to the unfortunate incident and was living with her when she decided to return for a party at the children’s school. She said she never returned alive.

Narrating further, she said she reported the case at the station, where she was told that the suspect had already reported that his wife committed suicide by taking local insecticide, Sniper.

”I was called on the telephone by an unknown number around 4pm on Sunday, November 12. The caller said, ‘Your daughter’s husband has killed her at Oworo’. He dropped the call.

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Around 5pm when I got to their house, I discovered that the house was locked up. There were two boys guarding the house and they refused to open the door to me, saying the owner of the house instructed them not to open the door.

I didn’t see my daughter or her husband. I was begging them to open the door when I saw Richard jumping up through the window. He saw me and asked the boys to open the door, but they refused.

I broke the louvers of the window. The boy climbed a stool and said from inside, ‘my father has killed my mother and taken her away.’”

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It was gathered that Olaoluwa had already deposited the body of his wife in the Gbagada General Hospital mortuary and had allegedly gone to obtain court documents to enable him to bury her, before he was arrested.

Mrs Jonathan, who claimed to have visited the mortuary, said Maureen’s body had machete cuts and other torture marks.

”My daughter, who worked as the manager of my chemical company had, about a week to the incident, complained that her husband said we would soon see her obituary.

I sent my eldest daughter to accompany her to the house to know what happened. The man  begged and said he was only joking. He said he really loved his wife. I insisted that she pack out of the house.

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She was in my house for three days before she said she wanted to return home because her children’s school would be having a cultural party.

She left and went to the party with her husband on Saturday. It was that night that she was brutalised and killed by the husband. From what we saw in the mortuary, she had blood in her nostrils and deep cuts in her hands and legs.”

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The victim’s mother asked that Maureen’s three children, namely, Richard, five; Henry, three; and Omowunmi, six months, be released to her.

The policeman with the couple’s two children, Ajisafe, said he believed Olaoluwa did not kill his wife. He explained that the suspect’s aged mother handed over the children to him for safekeeping.

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The 83-year-old mother of the suspect, Florence Adejo, also denied that her son murdered Maureen.

 ”He came to knock on the door of my house late that night. He fell on the ground and started weeping and lamenting that his wife had destroyed him. A crowd gathered in front of the house where I am the landlady.

They tried to console him. He said his wife took Sniper. He said he thought it was a joke until their son, Richard, went to bring the container of the insecticide.

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She was taken to a private hospital where she was initially rejected before she was taken to the general hospital where she died. I was told her mother sells the insecticide and she brought it home for mosquitoes.

Why she decided to drink it is what is beyond my understanding. My son said they didn’t have any disagreement between them and she was not mentally ill.”

The Police Public Relations Officer, SP Chike Oti, said investigations were ongoing into the incident.

Photo credit: Punch

View Comments (5)
    • Both the mother and son are big liars and criminals,even if the story is not true,what of the victim’s boy confession, will the boy lie against his own mother at that tender age.When we say any woman or man that knows they are no longer happy with their marriage should leave peaceful before its result in death,some people will start shouting marriage is for better for worse in the bible,eni to ku nitie gbe,the man should be torture well he will confess. Rip to the victim.

  • There’s no way a five year old can make up such a story. This idiot should be hanged.

  • Hmmmmmmmmmm a kid cannot tell such lies so that man and his mother should stop lying rubbish. May her soul rest in peace. Amen.

  • Definitely, he will be charged for murder.

    He will cool off his head in jail, what a disgrace to fatherhood

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