A woman identified as Rofiat Okewola murdered by her husband in Ogun State after she confronted him for sleeping with another woman.
According to The Nation, the sad incident happened on August 6, 2023.
It was gathered that the 33-year-old tailor, had caught her husband having sex with another woman in their apartment in the Owode area of Sango-Ota, Ogun State.
The woman heard about her husband’s affair.
Upset by the new discovery, she dashed out of her shop on Bosun Adeyemi Street in the Adalemo area of Lagos State and rushed home to confront her husband and his lover.
Sadly, the woman didn’t come out alive as she was murdered by her husband.
Reports has it that upon confronting her husband, his lover bolted immediately.
In a fit of fury, her husband, a mechanic in the Abule Egba area of Lagos State, dragged her outside the love nest and sm@shed her head against the wall at the back of the building.
He was intercepted by an angry mob after he attempted to flee and was subsequently arrested by men of the Sango-Ota Divisional Headquarters led by the Divisional Police Officer (DPO).
While condemning his action, the angry mob stressed that he could have simply sent his wife packing instead of killing her.
“Why did you refuse to take the woman to the hospital as soon as she passed out after you brutalised her?” one of them ask
The suspect couldn’t offer any explanation as he babbled his regrets.
One of the deceased’s friend, Biola aka Dasol said:
‘’Rofiat was the chief whip of the tailors association in this community. She was also in charge of the preparation for a party that was to be held by the association. I was to accompany her to the market to purchase some items needed for the party last week.
“I spoke with her on the phone on the day of the incident around 12 noon. Surprisingly, I was at a party when the chairperson of the tailors association at Adalemo broke the news of her d£ath to me on the phone”