A 46-year-old Olatunji Sobola has allegedly killed his wife over some suspicious text messages on her phone, from her lover.
Sobola, a staff of Remo North Local Government, was said to have confessed to Ogun State police command that he suspected his wife, whom he married for 20 years of “having extra marital affairs because of some text messages he saw on her phone.”
Spokesman of the command, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said that the suspect confessed that when he challenged his late wife about his suspicions, a fight broke out between them, which eventually led to the death of the 38-year-old mother of three.
Oyeyemi said that the man was nabbed on Saturday, following a complaint by the father of the deceased, one Alhaji Ambali Yinusa, who reported at Owode-Egba divisional headquarters that his son-in-law, Sobola, had a misunderstanding with his wife, Momudat Sobola, which led to a physical fight between them.
The deceased’s father said that in the process, Sobola took a knife and stabbed his wife at the back.
Upon the report, the DPO of Owode-Egba division, CSP, Matthew Ediae, sent his men to the scene where the suspect was apprehended, while the victim was immediately rushed to the hospital, where she later gave up the ghost.
The corpse of the deceased had been deposited at the morgue of Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital’s morgue in Sagamu, for autopsy.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, Cp Edward A. Ajogun, has ordered the immediate transfer of the case to homicide section of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence department for further investigation and prosecution.
