A 45-year-old man, Afolayan Olawale, has raised the alarm over alleged threat to his life by the family members of his late wife, Keji Olawale, certified to have died of HIV/AIDS on September 27 this year.
Olawale, a commercial tricycle operator, who lives in Ajangbadi, Ojo area of the state, but works at Ebute-Metta, Lagos Mainland, said his late wife’s father, Mr. Gbenga Olukoya, and 12 of his children residing in Ajegunle, believed that he had a hand in Keji’s death.
Olawale said Keji had four children for him before her death.
He alleged, “My late wife’s family has been threatening to kill me. They claim I am the one responsible for the sickness and death of their daughter. But before her illness, I had been warning her of the consequences of her extra marital affairs, which she indulged in.
“Suddenly, she became very sick. I spent a lot on her treatment and I stayed with her at the hospital for months before she later died.”
Olawale added, “While at my in-laws’ Ajegunle home to discuss the funeral arrangements, the next day after she died, about 12 of her brothers and their father descended on me; I was almost killed. But I narrowly escaped. Since then, her father, brothers and other relations have been trailing and threatening to eliminate me.
“There was an instance on this Apapa road. While I was going about my business, five of her father’s children accosted me and beat me mercilessly.”
Olawale further alleged that his father in-law was a herbalist, who was capable of doing any evil to him.
Confirming the incident, one of Olawale’s neighbours, Mr. Moshood Musbau, said, “On several occasions, Olawale’s in-laws have assaulted him for no just reason.
“There was also a time he was waylaid along a street at Ajegunle and he was seriously battered.”
Another of his neighbours, Ayodele Hakeem-Balogun corroborated the claims that Olawale had suffered series of physical attacks from his in-laws.
Also speaking, one of the tricycle operators in the area, said Olawale couldn’t have killed his
own wife.
“Olawale couldn’t have killed his wife, not even for any reason. His in-laws are just too fetish; they can do and undo,” he alleged.
Efforts to reach the victim’s in-laws as at the time of filing this report, proved abortive, as calls made to their phones were not answered and text messages sent to them were not replied.
