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 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.
The unemployed 49-year-old Jafaru allegedly used a knife to slit the
wife’s throat around 2am on Friday, after which he took a poison.
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.
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