An unemployed trailer driver, Mr. Jafaru Sorgie,
said to be in his 40s is now in police net for allegedly murdering his wife,
Roseline in the early hours of yesterday at their residence, 8, Araromi Street
in Oshodi- Post Office area of Lagos metropolis.
According to
neighbours, nobody knows exactly what prompted Jafaru to murder his wife. “We
didn’t hear them quarrel”, one the neighbours said. “We heard shouts from their
room, we went in only to see that Jafaru has killed his wife. So, we quickly
alerted Akinpelu police station.”
Narrating to Saturday
Sun, one of the children, who was at the scene said he noticed that his
father was very restless that night, but still didn’t know when, or why his
father killed his mother, Roseline.
“I was watching TV around
midnight. I noticed that my father wasn’t sleeping; he was restless and was
walking around the house. I later went to bed only to be woken up by the shout
of my mother as she has been murdered. She was bleeding from the neck and
nobody seems to know what happened.”
According to
neighbours, nobody not even the police could find the object that was used to
stab Mrs. Sorgie. “We took pains to search the compound looking for the weapon
used but couldn’t find it,” a neighbour told Saturday Sun.
It was also gathered
that the alleged killer Jafaru and the deceased Roseline, have been married for
over 20 years, and have produced five children. However, the union has been
fraught with constant marital strife, abuse, accusations of infidelity and
unending brutal assaults on the woman.
A close relation of the
deceased, Mrs. Kate Yakubu told our reporter that on many occasions, Roseline
got fed up with the marriage over the abuse and moved to end the marriage, but
she is always dissuaded by her in-laws who would continuously plead not to
divorce her husband, their brother.
“There was a particular
time they fought and he bit off her ear. Another time he almost strangled her
to death with his bare hands, but she remained in the marriage because of her
children. Rose was the breadwinner of the family. She worked so hard trying to
feed her children. She sold fish and other edibles to ensure that food was on
the table, regrettably, Jafaru has not been a good husband. He always accused
her blindly of infidelity that we know she’s innocent of. I’m so heartbroken,”
she wailed loud.
Another neighbour,
Simon described Jafar as a hostile man and hardly relates with anybody. “Every
time we wonder how his hardworking wife copes living with him. He’s a very
stern man that hates people relating with any member of his family”.
Confirming the
incident, the Deputy Police Public Relation Officer, DSP Damascus Ozoani said
they got alert about the incident around 5:49am on Friday. And that the body of
the deceased has been deposited in an disclosed mortuary.
- Sun
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