Remains of banker killed by her husband finally laid to rest

It was a sad day and a day that will never be forgotten on Saturday on Alhaji Ganiu Street, Bako Estate, in the Ketu area of Lagos State, as the remains of a 28-year-old woman identified as Maureen Adejo, who was allegedly beaten to death by her husband, Olaoluwa Adejo, was buried.

Present at the burial were friends and family members of the deceased.

PUNCH Metro had reported that 32-year-old Olaoluwa and the deceased, who hailed from Imo State, had been married for about five years.

The marriage, which was blessed with three children, was said to have been marred with disgreements as the bank worker later allegedly threatened to kill his wife.

She was said to have packed to her mother’s house, but returned for a party at her children’s school.

While Olaoluwa claimed that she took local insecticide, Sniper, their five-year-old son, Richard, said his father tortured his mother and forced the insecticide down her throat.

The case was subsequently transferred from the Oworonshoki Police Station to the Homicide Section of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, Yaba.

The detectives removed the corpse from the Gbagada General Hospital morgue where it was initially deposited by Olaoluwa, and took it to the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja, for autopsy.

The result of the autopsy was said to have been released to the police just as the Lagos State indigene was arraigned and remanded last Wednesday.

The hearse bearing the remains of the deceased reportedly left LASUTH around 11am on Saturday.

It was learnt that it arrived at the Apostolic Christian Church Mission, Ketu, where it was received by scores of residents and sympathisers.

At 12pm, the service of songs was said to have commenced, as people paid tributes to the late Maureen.

The body was thereafter taken to the compound of her mother, Mrs. Kate Jonathan, where she was reportedly buried after a dust-to-dust rite.

The Lagos State Ministry of Justice had placed the three children in the custody of their maternal grandmother.

Jonathan confirmed the development to our correspondent on Sunday, lamenting the death of her daughter.

Source: ( Punch Newspaper )

2 COMMENTS

  1. what is missing in families where husband killed the wife or wife killed the husband in a brutal manner is prayer. Having forgotten that when man and woman joined together as husband and wife that a battle line has been drawn between you and satan the journey has been marked for a catastrophic end. Parents are to be blame for these unpleasant phenomenon because what your child becomes in future depends on the training given to him/her. Many parents once their child gains administration to higher institution he/she becomes king and untouchable by the parents. Bible says teach your child the he should follow and when he grows up he will not depart from it. Many of these children that have thrown their families into everlasting anguish must have been exhibiting the devilish acts with impunity right from their school days in the presence of their parents because charity begins at home. Well I pray God will give the family of the deceased the fortitude to bear the irreparable loss in Jesus Name.