Neighbours had claimed they heard the couple exchange angry words
before tragedy struck.
“At about midnight, the
husband suddenly ran out from their apartment, crying agonizingly for help. He
was on fire and had cried that his wife had set him ablaze. He was burning and
was battling with the fire.
“We had to rush out to
rescue him by quickly getting water and pouring it on him. But for the prompt
intervention of some of us, he would have been burnt to death,” an anonymous
resident of their compound had reported.
The neighbour added that he
was then taken to the Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital (EKSUTH), where
he is still receiving treatment.
“We also reported the incident to the Ado
Central Divisional police station from where policemen came and arrested his
wife the day after,” the neighbour stated.
Olusegun is still in a
critical condition at the hospital and the man, who hailed from Ondo State, is
now out of his come and had been said to have wished to go to his Akoko
community, where he felt relatives could be of help to his mother who has been
the only one footing his hospital bills.
But Bukola Ogidiolu
defended herself, and denied that she did it. Her story hardly added up, but
from the contention of the police and all the others, the law court would see
to that. She denied that she doused him with petrol and also denied setting him
on fire. She, however, admitted that they had a quarrel that night and that
they (she and her husband) had always been having fights “because of a child.”
This is her story while she
was paraded by the police in Ado Ekiti on Monday for allegedly committing the
crime:
“I
don’t know how it happened. We had a quarrel and he left me and went home. I
went to meet him at home and by the time I got home, he had destroyed
everything in our room. There were people around who were telling him to calm
down.
“The
petrol was in our room, placed on top of the electricity generating set. Later
I recall that he went outside the room and I heard the fire alarm. I could have
prevented the fire from burning him that much but he was dragging me to himself
but I freed myself from his grip and ran out.
“We
later took him to the hospital and I was arrested the day after by the police.
It happened at about 11:30 pm on Wednesday and I was arrested the day after.
“Our
quarrel has always been about our not having a child together. It has nothing
to do with valentine outing because I’m not a baby that would be asking to be
taken out. We’ve been married since 2012 and I’ve been taking drugs so that I
could have a child for him.
“He
smokes but I didn’t see him light a cigarette on that night. But from the
reports I heard from those who saw him at the hospital, they said he was
holding a lighter. He was standing behind me, towards the passage and he was
there when he raised the fire alarm.”
A member of the hospital
medical personnel nursing him said “it seems that his penis was the main target
of the attack, with the worker who didn’t want to be named saying “the primary
target of Abimbola’s assailant might be his penis as the organ had been badly
burnt.”
The victim’s mother, Mrs.
Folake Olusegun, said all her son could say before he passed out at the
hospital was that his wife was angry that he did not take her out for the
celebration of the Valentine. According to her, “this caused a serious
misunderstanding which made his wife threaten to set him ablaze.
“My
son said he dared his wife, saying she couldn’t do that and suddenly she poured
petrol on him and also threw the fire at him.”
The Ekiti State Police
Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Mr. Albert Adeyemi, also confirmed the
incident and assured that the suspect would be charged to court as soon as
investigation on the matter is concluded.
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