Man Beats Wife To Death With Iron Because Of Adultery

An indigene of Ilogbo in the Sango-
Ota area of Ogun State, Marufu
Olasoji, has beaten his wife, Kehinde
Olasoji, to death for allegedly
committing adultery.
It was learnt that the 35-year-old
welder repeatedly hit the wife’s head
with an iron until she gave up the
ghost.
He was said to have sprayed cement
on her face and fled the
neighbourhood, leaving her in a pool
of blood.
The incident happened around 8pm
on Monday at the Chelsea
neighbourhood of the Sango-Ota
area.
PUNCH Metro gathered that Marufu
had turned Kehinde, a hairdresser,
who had three children for him, to a
punch bag while their 15-year
relationship lasted.
Our correspondent was told that the
wife, aged 35, left the welder with
her children three months ago when
she could no longer endure the
assault.
On the fateful day, she was said to
have been invited by the suspect,
who reportedly accused her of
having extra-marital affairs. The
accusation was said to have led to an
altercation which led to Kehinde’s
death.
It was learnt that policemen from the
Onipanu Police Division, Ogun State,
launched a manhunt for the husband
after a neighbour reported the case
at the station. He was eventually
arrested around 6am on Tuesday.
While lamenting Kehinde’s death,
her brother, Kolawole Akinbote, said
she was the one responsible for the
upkeep of the three children
He said, “He (Marufu) did not
bother about the schooling and
feeding of the children. She was the
one taking care of them. Upon all
that, he still beat her. Our mother
was just discharged from a
hospital, where she was admitted.
She is 76. How will she handle this
loss?”
The suspect told our correspondent
that his late wife had come to collect
a sum of N17,000 to buy a dryer
when an argument ensued. He said
he fled out of fear, adding that he
really loved her.
He said, “I promised to buy her a
dryer before she moved out. She
called me around 7.30pm on
Monday that she wanted to collect
the N17,000 for the dryer.
I told her to give me more time.
She insisted she must have the
money and started dragging my
shirt. I
just pulled her hands off, but
unfortunately she fell and hit her
head on some objects inside my
room.
“When I observed that she was
dead, I drank the cement but I later
vomited it on her body.
“I pampered her and my children. In
fact, it got to a point that some
people were calling me all sorts of
names because I cared for her a lot.
I did not kill her intentionally.
We were married for 15 years with
three children. It was fear that
made me flee. My second wife also
has three children. She left because
of disagreements.”
But the deceased’s twin sister, Taiye,
said Kehinde was not in need of any
dryer. She said frequent assaults
forced her sister to leave the suspect.
Amidst tears, Taiye said the sister
had just helped her to make her hair
before she left home on the fateful
day, adding that it was the only time
she would leave home without telling
her.
She said, “He was telling lies. She did
not need any dryer. I gave her mine
when I quit hairdressing. Who will I
be talking to now? Is it by force to
marry a man? What could she have
done to warrant being beaten to
death?
“He always beat her and most times,
it was in the night. There was a time
she called our parents around 11pm
that Daddy Mariam (Marufu) was
beating her. She was nursing a baby
then. When my brothers and I got
there, we saw a big stick in his hand
with which he had inflicted injuries
on her body.
“She was enduring the assaults
because of her children. She
eventually left him about three
months ago with her children.”
A police source told our
correspondent that the suspect would
soon be transferred to the state
police command in Eleweran.
The police spokesperson for the
command, DSP Muyiwa Adejobi,
confirmed the incident.
“The man beat his wife to death. He
has been arrested and the matter
will be investigated. He will be
charged to court after the
investigation,” he said.