IT was
double tragedy over the weekend in Ondo state as a 47 year old Ex banker now a
Taxi driver after ten years of marriage stabbed his former wife Amudat
Oluwafunmilayo Lateef to death and thereafter committed suicide by hanging
himself.
The
marriage was blessed with five children before things fell apart between the
couple who lived at Omoniyi quarters along Agbogbo area, along Owo-Benin-Akure
expressway.
The
deceased wife aged 45 who was a trader at Iloro market Akure and hails from
Ijaraisin in Kwara state.
Also
the late Jimoh who was formerly a baker hails from Osogbo in Osun state.
Report
had it that the couple’s marriage had been estranged in the last two years with
the husband threatening to kill the wife and also commit suicide.
Sources
said that family members agreed that they should separate for a while to allow
time heal their troubled marriage following alleged battering of the wife by
Jimoh after their inability to reconcile them.
Also
another source said that two weeks ago Jimoh went to Court for a divorce and
the court granted his request but when Oluwafunmilayo went back to the house to
pack her belonging Jimoh pleaded with her to remain and not to leave him.
However,
Friday afternoon, one of the children of the deceased after returning from
school meet his mum in the pool of her own blood and the body of his father
dangling from the ceiling of the house.
He
reportedly raised alarm which attracted the residents and the whole community
was thrown into confusion as a result of the double tragedy.
The
chairman of the Landlord Association of Omoniyi quarters, Mr Ojo Oluwatayo with
other landlords in the area rushed to the Divisional Police station in Ijapo to
report the matter.
The
DPO, SP Jane Mbanefo and other policemen according to investigation mobilised
to the scene.
Vanguard
gathered that the the bodies of the couple have been deposited at the state
Specialist Hospital morgue for autopsy.
Meanwhile,
the family of Jimoh has pleaded with the police to released his corpse to them
for burial since he is a muslim.
Speaking
with Vanguard the uncle of late Jimoh, Baba labaika said “We have reported to
the Deji of Akure and we want to bury Jimoh in his house while his ex wife will
be buried else where since there is no case.
The
Police Image Maker Wole Ogodo confirmed the ugly incident.
Ogodo
said that the matter was reported to the Police by the Chairman of the Landlord
Association of the residence of the deceased couple.
He
said that a blood stained knife used by the late husband to kill the wife was
recovere from the scene of the crime.
The
Image Maker added that Jimoh after stabbing the wife to death also committed
suicide by hanging himself.
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