Jubrila Olurotimi and his wife, Omosebi, had been having some domestic
squabbles over infidelity for some time. But one day the argument went too far.
Both husband and wife died. How did this happen?
Saturday, 20 October,
2012, was a day that residents of Owode community in Ogun State would not
forget in a hurry. It was the day one Jubrila Olurotimi reportedly committed
suicide after reportedly inflicted injuries on his wife with metal objects
which eventually claimed the woman’s life.
He was said to have accused
her of infidelity. Olurotimi was an inter-state oil tanker driver with one of
the notable oil firms in Lagos, while his wife, Omosebi, was said to be a
teacher at a private nursery school in Sango Otta area of Ogun State. The
couple had been married for eight years. They were blessed with a set of twins
three years ago. It is reported that for months now, both husband and wife had
been living like cat and mouse over allegations of infidelity.
Twice had Olurotimi’s
parents invited the couples to Ilisan Remo in Ogun State to broker peace
between them but Olurotimi had insisted that his wife must leave his house.
That fateful day, Olurotimi, 38, was reported to have woken his wife at the
middle of the night, and subjected her to rigorous questioning about her
alleged romance with a neighbour of theirs, identified as Ignatius. Omosebi,
34, apparently disturbed by the allegation from her husband flared up and
reportedly walked out on her husband.
She reportedly left
their one room apartment and went outside the building to sit at the veranda of
the house. But Olurotimi went to her to invite her back into the room to
continue their discussion but the woman would not bulge.
Eyewitnesses said that
when Olurotimi could not succeed in bringing his wife back into the room after
about three attempts, he resorted to threatening her with eviction from his
house.
At this stage, their
cotenants had gathered around them pleading with Olurotimi to give peace a
chance.
When it was clear to
Olurotimi that his wife was not going to come back into the room, he reportedly
told his landlord to help him appease his wife to come back to him claiming
that he would let the sleeping dog lie on the issue. With pleas from
co-tenants, Omosebi reportedly returned to the room hoping that her husband was
truly going to let peace reign supreme.
It was reported that
immediately Omosebi returned to the room, her husband securely locked the door
and resumed his threat. Crying bitterly, Omosebi was reported to have begun to
swear that she had no affair with any man but Olurotimi seemed bent on teaching
his wife a lesson.
Apparently when the
problem became unbearable for her, Omosebi reportedly began to rain curses on
the friends that her husband claimed to have told him of her alleged romance
with the said Ignatius, said to be a parent of one of Omosebi’s pupils. With the
curses coming thick and fast, Olurotimi reportedly subjected his wife to
beating.
It was reported that he
even beat the woman with an iron rod he brought home that night from work. All
efforts by the landlord and the co-tenants to gain access into the room to
rescue the woman from her husband were unsuccessful as the man refused to open
the door for them. At a stage when the beating persisted, Omosebi reportedly
fainted and it was then that the man left her alone. When Olurotimi realized
that the wife had fainted he opened the door and raised their neighbours to
offer a helping hand.
The reluctant neighbours
later took the fainted Omosebi to a private clinic at Sango Otta. It was
reported that three days after, doctors at the hospital asked that the woman be
taken to a higher hospital in Abeokuta for further treatment. Omosebi later
died of the injuries sustained from her husband’s beatings. It was reported
that Omosebi told his co-tenants that he would go to inform her parents of her
situation.
He has not been seen
since then. News, however, filtered into the neighbourhood two days after
Olurotimi left home for his in-laws’ place, he headed for his own family house
at Ita-Elega, Abeokuta where he reportedly jumped into a well near his family
compound. Saturday Mirror spoke with the landlord, Chief Adebisi, of the house
on phone. According to the Septuagenarian, Olurotimi had been accusing his wife
of infidelity for a long time and that he had tried his best to mediate on the
matter albeit unsuccessfully. “I think the devil was at work that day.
There was nothing we did
not tell Baba Ibeji (Olurotimi) that day but everything fell on deaf ears.
Until he beat the woman to coma and begged other people to help him carry the
woman to the hospital. The following day, he claimed he wanted to go to the
woman’s parents to inform them of the development but he has not been seen
since then,” Adebisi said.
A female neighbour,
identified as Mama Lolade, who claimed Olurotimi stopped her friendship with
his late wife over the issue, claimed that she did everything in her power to
convince Olurotimi that his wife was innocent but that he warned that the two
women should stop being friends.
According to the woman,
“The man got what he wanted. I had been friends with Mama Ibeji since they
moved into the area many years ago and I can say I have never smelled such a
thing in her, but the man would not listen. He chose to believe what his
friends told him and he has seen what he wanted to see,” she added.
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