By Dayo Johnson in Akure
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.
However a 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, on 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 himsef