The Osun State Police Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), SP Yemisi Opalola, has said that Ifeoluwa Bamidele, the young lady who set her husband, Bolu, ablaze in their home in Koka Village, in Obokun Local Government Area of Osun State on Sunday, 17 July has committed suicide.
In a report, SP Opalola said Ifeoluwa committed suicide on Thursday night, 21 July, at about 7 pm.
The police spokesperson said efforts to reach Ifeoluwa, who initially went into hiding after fleeing Osun to Ekiti State, yielded results on Thursday after she was able to get a Non-Governmental Organisation to mediate.
Opalola said Ifeoluwa mentioned to her that she was in Aramokoko and that it would be difficult for her to get transportation to Osogbo. SP Opalola said she then instructed some personnel to go and get her from where she was.
”It was when they picked her they saw she was behaving funny. They asked her what happened. She confessed that she took a poisonous substance before she left Ekiti. We rushed her to Wesley Gate Hospital. They tried all they could so that she could vomit all the substance. They later discovered that it had been a long that she took it and it had destroyed her internal organs. That was how she died”, Opalola said.
Reports claim Ifeoluwa set Bolu on fire after she found out he welcomed a child with another woman. Their marriage was barely a year old.
Eighteen-Eleven Media on 21st July 2022 reported the ugly incident. Bolu was reportedly set ablaze for allegedly having a child with another woman.
Although Ikeoluwa was said to have committed suicide after setting her husband ablaze, family members reportedly discountenanced the claim insisting they haven’t seen any proof that she did so.
SP Opalola while confirming the incident in a statement in Osogbo on Wednesday, 20th July, said the victim was referred to the University College Hospital (UCH) for better treatment where he died around 4:pm on Tuesday, 19 July, while the suspect was nowhere to be found.
The PPRO said the incident happened at around 11.30 pm on Sunday, 17 July 2022, at their apartment in Koka Community, Ibokun Local Government Area of the state.
“At about 11:30 pm, one Bolu was allegedly set ablaze by his wife. The victim was rushed to the Osogbo Central Hospital where he was referred to the University College Hospital, Ibadan (UCH) for better treatment,” she stated.
“It is unfortunate that the man eventually died around 4.00 pm on Tuesday in the hospital,” SP Opalola added.
She, however, assured that the police would arrest the culprit and bring her to book.
Bamidele committed the act after allegedly finding out her husband cheated on her and had a child outside wedlock.
She was also reported to have left a message on her WhatsApp status, indicating that her action was premeditated.
The message reads: “I’ve always been a calm girl and I have never done this in my life but Teebam (her husband) has pushed me to the edge. At this point, y’all will weep over myself and him before daybreak. I’m promising y’all that.”
The late husband, fondly called Teebam, who was a Cairo-based businessman, returned from his base unannounced to Nigeria as a surprise to his wife.
Though the motive of the deceased was to visit the country and celebrate the birthday anniversary of his wife in a big way instead of heroic reception from the wife, he was said to have been dealt a dirty slap with an accusation that, he was unfaithful to their marriage to the extent of having a bastard child outside the union,” the report says.
The development, however, was said to have generated heated arguments between the couple who threw decorum into the wind and engaged themselves in a war of words.
It was gathered that the wife forcibly took her husband’s phone to scan through to ascertain information received concerning the infidelity of her husband but in the process, the husband was said to have resisted her and this infuriated the wife, who went berserk, claiming she had justified that her husband had really cheated on her for refusing to release his phone to her for fact-finding.
She was said to have set him ablaze after locking him in the house and all efforts of residents in the area to save his life proved abortive as it took them hours before they could gain access to the house as a result of burglary proof erected at the entrance door and windows of the house.
