The Police in Ondo State have arrested a 47-year-old
bricklayer, Damilare Olotu, for allegedly poisoning his wife, Mary, for
being barren.
The 45-year-old Mary who hailed from Kwara
State was a trader and had been having running battle with the suspect
over her inability to conceive.
Reports had it that following the
condition of the deceased the suspect married a second wife, Kemi, from
Igbara Oke area of the state who bore him two children.
The suspect who is from Akure used to live with the deceased in Ibuji, Ifedore council area of the state.
It was alleged that the second wife reportedly insisted on packing into the suspect’s house but the deceased resisted.
The
junior brother to the deceased, Mr. Lawrence Omotosho, told newsmen
that the suspect and the second wife connived to poison his sister.
According
to him, the sister had told him that the suspect had threatened to
kill her. Omotosho asked the police to investigate the matter thoroughly
and bring the culprit to book.
Also the only child of the
deceased from her former marriage, Shola Olatunji who is an
undergraduate in Kogi State said the family of her late mother warned
her not to re-marry but she refused.
Contacted, the police image
maker, Wole Ogodo, said investigation into Mary’s death was on-going,
noting that the case has been transfered from Igbara Oke to the
headquarters in Akure for further investigation.
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