Wednesday, 25 December, 2019 was per day of euphoria and festivity for all individuals independent of strict connection.
In any case, the day turned sour for the group of Sonola in Ijeun Titun territory of Abeokuta South neighborhood government region of Ogun state, as the 37-year old Mutiu Sonola apparently beat his better half Zainab to death after a short contention over nourishment.
Late Zainab, 34 years of age, was a mother of one preceding her inconvenient passing, she was a trader in Kuto advertise; she manages groceries and different things.
As indicated by an observer, Bankole Soluade, an occupant of the territory where the couple dwelled, described how Sonola Mutiu as a rule beat Zainab over and again and how they typically mediated to prevent him from the demonstration.
Soluade stated:
“On that fateful day, the story changed as Sonola Mutiu popularly known as Alfa Mutiu was reportedly beat Zainab to coma. When he discovered that the woman was almost dead, he rushed her to Ogun State Hospital at Sokenu road, Ijaiye, Abeokuta for treatment but Zainab could not survive the beating as she gave up the ghost in the hospital”.
He added that “the hospital management then instructed Mutiu to carry the remains of his wife when she was finally confirmed dead.”
Mutiu then took the corpse of his late wife to his family house at Oke-Yeke in Abeokuta, where the policemen attached to Ibara police station was called upon to arrest him with the corpse.
“Mutiu was habitually beating his wife at any slightest provocation and that the latest assault leading to the woman’s death was triggered by a “minor disagreement which was on food.”
On her part, an old woman who identified herself as Mrs. Aileru, said Mutiu has two wives. She said Zainab was the second wife.
She said, both Mutiu and Zainab used to have quarrels to the extent that whenever there was quarrel between them, Mutiu will beat Zainab blue black.
“Family members and neighbors had settled issues for both of them on several occasions. Even there was a time Zainab packed her belongings and moved out of Mutiu’s house, we settled the quarrel then and came back”.
“I was surprised when Mutiu called her around 11am that his wife has been rushed to the hospital after minor disagreement between the two of them and he later called back around 11:30am to tell her that his wife is dead.
“Mutiu started beating his wife in the morning on Christmas Day over a minor disagreement, despite series of warning by neighbours that he should desist from further assaulting his wife, a furious Mutiu kept hitting her with blows until Zainab slumped and slipped into coma.”
The representative for the Ogun State order, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, said preliminary investigation uncovered that Mutiu was attached to beating the deceased at the smallest incitement and that the occurrence, that brought about her death, was a minor contradiction.
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Oyeyemi stated: “The corpse of the perished has been kept in the General Hospital, Ijaiye funeral home for dissection.”
