The unemployed 49-year-old
Jafaru husband allegedly used a knife to slit the wife’s throat around 2am on
Friday, after which he took a poison if you missed the story click here.
The younger sister of late
Mrs. Roseline Sougie, who was allegedly killed by her husband of 26 years, says
the suspect nearly beat her to death sometime in 2015.
The sister, Mrs Philomena
Shaibu, told Punch Metro that the husband, Jafaru Sougie, in anger used a
pillow to stifle the mother of five while she was sleeping.
She added that Roseline’s
death on Friday in their rented apartment on Araromi Street, Oshodi, Lagos, was
the end of a long period of domestic abuse.
This is just as the last
child of the family, Happiness, marked her 9th year birthday at Shaibu’s house
in Ikorodu on Sunday.
He was vomiting in the
bathroom when one of their children, Richmond, and his aunt, who had slept in
the living room, went into the inner room to wake up Roseline only to discover
that she was dead.
Forty-six-year-old
Roseline, a frozen foods seller in Ijora, was the breadwinner of the family and
had reportedly wanted to quit the marriage, but was advised to rescind her
decision for the sake of the children.
However, Shaibu on Sunday,
said her sister fled to their village in Edo State in 2015 after the husband
stifled her during another argument.
She said, “Last year, my
sister was sleeping when her husband used a pillow to cover her mouth and she
nearly died. She managed to escape and fled to our village. The case was
reported to the police in Oshodi. He went to the village to beg her and after
three months they reconciled.
“It was the children that
kept her in the relationship. It was unfortunate that she died because of the
children. All I want is that he should not go unpunished. My sister suffered a
lot to keep the marriage going. We want justice for her.”
The President, Women Arise
for Change Initiative, Dr. Joe Okei-Odumakin, said her group had contacted the
police on the matter and would monitor it to ensure justice in the end.
She said, “There is a
curious rise in the spate of domestic violence; husband killing wife and
vice-versa. People must be careful about the kind of relationship they get
into. We have taken this up. Roseline’s death is a colossal loss. We stand with
the family at this time of grief. We wait for the autopsy report of Roseline.
Jafaru must be alive to face justice.”
But the second child of the
family, 16-year-old Richmond, a Senior Secondary School 2 pupil, said he had forgiven
his father.
“We just have to move ahead
with our lives. Mum meant a lot to us; she was our hope, but at the same time,
I have forgiven dad,” he said.
Meanwhile, it was gathered
that Jafaru, who is in the custody of the State Criminal Investigation
Department, Yaba, had yet to speak to investigators on the incident as he was
still recuperating from the poison he took.
The Lagos State deputy
spokesperson of the police, DSP Damasus Ozoani, said, “The matter is still
under investigation. The suspect has not given the police his own version of
the incident and the circumstance in which the act was committed has yet to be
determined.”
he will not go unpunished
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