Thursday, May 9, 2024 -An Islamic cleric, Ahmed Ojo, has reportedly set fire to his wife’s house in the Egbe Odo area of Isua Ijesa in Ekiti State after she refused to join him in observing a late-night prayer
Speaking to a source on Wednesday,
May 8, 2024, the wife, Bosede Afolabi, disclosed that the incident happened on
April 27 when her husband returned home and requested that they observe a
prayer around 11 pm on the said date, a request she declined because she was
tired.
Afolabi disclosed that her refusal to
participate in the prayer angered her husband, who began causing trouble that
prompted her to invite neighbours to appease him.
She further stated that all efforts to make her husband
understand that she was tired after a stressful day at work proved futile, and
when she realised he was becoming violent, she left the house to sleep at a
neighbour’s house
“At about midnight, a girl from our
neighbourhood came to knock on the house to inform us that my house was on fire
and that it seemed my husband had set the house on fire,” she narrated.
"I and some neighbours rushed to the
scene only to see that the whole building had been engulfed in fire. Before we
could get help in putting the fire out, the building had been razed.
“He was later caught and handed over
to the police.”
She added that she remarried Ojo after her
first husband passed away, and she has been accommodating him since they got
married.
When asked if there had been recurring
misunderstanding between them, Afolabi said they had no misunderstanding before
the incident.
She, however, blamed her husband’s action
on the influence of alcohol.
"What I observed that night was that
he was drunk, which was why I tried to avoid the escalation of the disagreement
that ensued on that fateful day. He often comes home drunk sometimes, but we
have not had any serious misunderstanding in the past,” Afolabi noted.
She added that the incident had left her in
a devastating situation due to the huge loss it had caused her.
"I have not been myself since the
incident happened because of the loss it has caused me. I appeal to Nigerians
to come to my aid,” she concluded.
The spokesperson for the State Police
Command, Sunday Abutu, who confirmed the incident said that the suspect is
under investigation.
"The incident happened. The man has been arrested and he is currently
undergoing investigation at the state’s CID,” Abutu added.
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