Mystery as Family of 27-Year-Old Allegedly Killed By Lover Demands Silence

The family of a 27-year-old secondary school teacher at the Abule Oko community in Ogun State, Yemisi Tiamiyu, who was allegedly killed by her lover, has demanded silence over the unfortunate incident, fuelling further suspicions about her mysterious death.

According to Punch, her dad had gone to her apartment in search of her on June 23, 2016 after she failed to turn up at their Oshodi residence to spend the weekend as usual and several attempts to reach her via phone proved futile as both her phones were switched off.

When he got to her apartment, the door was reportedly locked but one of the windows was open. He asked neighbours if they had seen her that day, and they all said they saw her last on Thursday when she returned from work.

Not certain his daughter was inside the apartment or not, he called a carpenter in the area to force the door open and she was found lying in a pool of her own blood, with a pillow case covering her face and her body already swollen. Her two phones were also missing.

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Speaking on the death of the Unilag graduate, an eye witness spilled,

“It is still a mystery to me up till now because Yemisi was an easygoing lady who could never have offended anybody. I saw her last on Thursday and we greeted before she went to sleep. When I didn’t see her on Friday, I thought she went to work early, which was strange, only for us to find her on Saturday murdered when her door was forced open on the order of her father.”

I overheard her shouting at a guy, I think it’s her boyfriend, on the phone. Both of them were involved in a heated argument and she was uttering the words: ‘Leave me alone. Leave me alone. I don’t want you in my life again.’ I even told her to take it easy with him and asked what the argument was all about, but she didn’t say anything. She was a conservative lady, she didn’t talk much to people.

She told me not to worry, that she would sort out everything. That was on Thursday evening. She must have been murdered in the early hours of Friday and there is suspicion she was killed by the guy. It is very painful what the murderer did to a very beautiful lady like Yemisi.”

In a strange twist, Yemisi’s family are reportedly not keen on getting justice and want the case immediately swept under the carpet. The eye witness added,

“They strictly warned us never to let the incident leak out. But how could I, as a human being, keep quiet when a fellow human being was murdered in a mysterious circumstance? What is the family hiding? Why is everyone keeping quiet over this issue?”

Asked if the source had ever seen the guy with Tiamiyu before, the source said, “I have never seen him before, so I don’t know how he looks.”

When quizzed at the deceased residence, another neighbour said harshly,

“We don’t want to talk about this issue and we are not going to. Whoever informed you of this incident should also tell you who killed Yemisi. There is an order to that effect, even by her father and the rest of the family. We don’t know the murderer; we have never seen him.”

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The school where the deceased worked, said to be a few metres from her apartment, had also been reportedly warned by the family and the community not to keep the incident secret. The school’s administrator however revealed,

“She was one of our staff members and she had not spent up to a year here when the incident happened…Every Friday, I learned she usually went to her parents’ house at Oshodi. But on this fateful day, we didn’t see her and the only means we could contact her was through her phone lines. I didn’t call her, but all her colleagues were calling her, but her lines were not going through. I was in the church on Sunday around 12 noon when my boss called me that somebody called him that Yemisi was found dead…This was a lady in her prime years and that day, I had to leave Lambe, where my church is, and had to get to her residence. When I got there, the house had been shut. I saw some people coming out in mourning.

She was very cool a lady, easygoing. She didn’t talk much. She was not troublesome. She was an introvert and a formal type of person. Very conservative. So it was strange when we heard what happened to her…”

The community’s leader, called Baba Lati, was unavailable when the media visited the area on Thursday, but reportedly screamed on the phone when he learned the purpose of the call.He said,

“Who told you that? Where did you get your information from? Don’t come and cause problem and confusion for us in this community. Even the father of the deceased has stated categorically that he doesn’t want to let this matter leak. Go away!”

The Ogun State police spokesperson, Muyiwa Adejobi confirmed the case was not reported to the command. Why the deceased’s family and the community where she died want the incident kept secret is shrouded in mystery as her murderer remains at large.

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