Few days ago, I published some news about an award winning pharmacist allegedly commits suicide in lagos . Today their as been a twist to the death of the Lagos based pharmacist as the sister came out with another story entirely, Read below:
The story you are about to read is touchy and teary. It is the ordeal of how a promising young Pharmacist, Oluwaseun Paul Olafere, 31 years married to a supposed heartthrob who is 39 years got killed in the hands of his lover and spouse only to claim that he committed suicide.
I bring to us this true life story as told by his blood sister, Olafare Dorcas
*****************************************************************************************
Pauloo, as he is commonly called at home graduated from the University of Lagos (UNILAG) as a Pharmacist in the year 2008. He got married on the 19th of February 2011 to a woman we all believed loved him just as he equally loved her...this happened a year after their introduction as fixed by the wife's family.
Before their introduction, Busayo Taiwo, as was her name before her marriage to Paul, was a lady loved by all members of Paul's family. I personally spend most of my weekend at her family's house in Shomolu, Paul's immediate elder and younger brother took her so dearly. My late mom loved her, just like one of her biological children. As a matter of fact, she was dearly loved.
Some months into her introduction, she started acting strangely. My late mom noticed and invited her over. We had a meeting where she asked each one of us what had gone wrong the way you expect a mother to do. We left that day, feeling it was over with mother instructing we her kids to behave well to her irrespective of whatsoever attitudes she puts up. Well, that ended there.
My late mom took seriously ill just some months to their wedding and was hospitalized ( 24th Dec. 2010). And all through her stay in the hospital, our beloved wife never showed up neither did our in-laws. My brother said then she was writing an ICAN exam and could not be chanced to come visit mother.
Mom requested her discharge from LUTH in January 2011 so she could be at their wedding. She went to that wedding though limping but she was so happy, same with my dad.
Where Daddy Kunle Hamilton got that unverified tale from...He said and I quote... "Unfortunately, the parents of the deceased, who have been at loggerheads with Mrs. Busayo Olafare and didn't approve of their son’s marriage to her"...remains a mystery. Daddy Kunle Hamilton misrepresented a lot of facts. A part of his account reads "Husband and wife had lived together amicably... "
Lived together amicably? No! They never did. Paul's immediate younger brother who drove them home from the reception on their wedding day said Paul and his wife quarrelled all through on their way home from the reception and he was afraid the marriage won't last if they should ever continue that way.
There was a time Paul was considering divorce, he complained that his wife was not giving him any sort of peace. He however held back because of his post as a Youth Pastor, wanting to set a good example. I remember vividly that my elder brother, told him then "na u be the pastor o, God will see you through".
The issue my brother had was his gentle nature. He wanted no one, not even his siblings and surviving parent, to know how imperfect his family was? And if at all he comes complaining his gentility always kicks in again. Well, permit me to hint you a little about some incidence...
Two months into their marriage Busayo's mother came and took away her daughter with pregnancy in her womb saying she took her away for spiritual prayer at her church CCC Morocco parish, the wife of Seun was not allow to come home till the time of the delivery.
We had no idea of this incidence until the death of their first child which took place just some hours after his death. Not until then before Paul narrated this ordeal to us the story of how they won't let him have his wife. It was then we were made to know that Paul's wife gave birth to this child of theirs at her parent's church, CCC(Morocco parish). It was such a slap on our face. A serious issue arose. Still in the course of that month, we were made to realize there was this UK based man that Busayo's mom wanted her daughter to marry and that she was stylishly buying into the idea. Why didn't Paul tell us this?
My late mom called to confirm the story from Paul and he responded in the affirmative but strongly warned us to stay out of it, assuring us that things would eventually fall into place...and he's ahead of his game. Then it dawned on us that Paul had been taken away from us as a brother. He would not have acted that way normally.
The 3rd child (a girl I supposed) came, He told us his child's christening ceremony was going to be held at his mother-in-law's church. And none of us went. I guess my dad did though.
Being a gentle person, he still told us not to interfere, yet he did nothing. How would you drop such a story and expect no act whatsoever from your family? It sounded not just possible but being who he was, he did not want any trouble with anyone.
His neighbours? They explained how hot their house has been. How the children do not live with them and all. Some of his colleagues at work knew how matrimonial issues had taken their toll on him. And the report has in it that they lived amicably.
Help ask Busayo how her husband got into huge debt? She has claimed that Paul took his life because of indebtedness. If that was the cause of his death why did his wife attempt to run away? Her attempt to pack some stuff and escape makes this issue a lot complicated. Debt and Suicide? What a story.
He was hopeful she was going to change till his death...He is in heavy debt, how? What was he investing on? A pharmaceutical store you claimed. Is there any pharmaceutical store? No. Then, how come his heavy debt.
We were being informed at Paul's place of work how he recently came out being the best in an exam being conducted by the state. And there's an attractive prize that follows. And he killed himself because of debt? He's been sending in suicidal messages lately because of debt, right?
Who did you(as the wife inform)? You have a pastor, I guess. Does he know? No. He attempted suicide at the Lagoon? When? How? Where? Who were those who resued him? Did anyone knows? His place of work? His dad? His siblings?
I guess she must have single-handedly rescued him from the lagoon. Paul still has a father and siblings too...Probably she forgot. And there goes a story spreading about how your husband killed himself cause of loans and debt. Where are these proofs?
Oh, what a love!
Not even an hour of mourning, you've been seen packing. Do you even love this man at all in the first instance? Just wondering how our brother has allegedly been said to commit suicide *sighs*
We were informed of Paul's death in the afternoon of Sunday, 12th April 2015. On getting to his residence, myself and those that accompanied me were told that his corpse had been deposited at the morgue. That caught us all by surprise and elicited the question about when he died and how quick his body was taken to the morgue before his siblings arrived.
One of his neighbors responded that it was in his morning,
specifically around 11a.m. Setting out for Yaba Military Hospital where his corpse was said to have been taken, we saw his lifeless body in a car outside the hospital.
Questions were asked about what happened and we were told he gulped down unadulterated insecticide. Knowing the kind of brother I had, questions kept popping up - how did that happen? Where is his wife? Where was she when it happened? Why must he be brought to the morgue before we were told?
We were told that he was brought from the hospital. One of his church members who was among those asking screamed that it was not possible as "Bro. Paul called me this morning, and told me he was about leaving his house for church and he must not get to church before me". Those who took the corpse to the morgue continued..."But we need you to sign these documents so his corpse would be attended to". So I signed.
We went back to our Dad to console him. He echoed my sentiments about the issue being one he would not believe. He said something was amiss and that the Paul he knew would never commit suicide by drinking unadulterated insecticide? A huge lie it is! Well, no one bought the story.
We decided to go back to his house to ask his neighbours what actually happened. On getting there however, we met Busayo, Paul's wife, back in their house in the company of some other people. She had started packing her things and would possibly have left If not for the refusal of their neighbour's and people around. Imagine!
It was at that point that I saw sense in the insistence of my Dad's friend that we go to Paul and Busayo's house.. When the people with her saw us approaching, they wanted to zoom off but we were alerted by some onlookers and we had to block the road with one of our cars to prevent their escape. Explained my brother.
I personally took the pain of meeting with his Shepherd, who said the news came in to him as a complete shock. Explaining, how Paul was in church with him on Saturday the 11th of April 2015. He was his normal him. One of their neighbours also said he tried warming his car engine earlier that morning.
Another church member, said he called him asking him to call one Tosin, that he needed to service his car. Then why the suicidal attempt all of a sudden. Confusing, it was to me.
A virtuous woman has just lost a husband, would have been all sober and sad but she wasn't. A suicide she claims, why on the run? Where was she running to? Why was she packing her things? Why should she run? Was she expecting his death? Wasn't his death suspicious?
Hmmm, many questions left unanswered.
Source: Fejiro Oliver's facebook timeline
No comments:
Post a Comment