Osun: Wife Disappears After Setting Husband Ablaze Over Extramarital Affairs

By Segun Ojo, Osogbo

A wife and mother,Ifeoluwa Bamidele,was said to have disappeared after setting her husband,Boluwatife Teebams on fire over extramarital affairs in Coker area of Osogbo, the state capital.

The incident ,according to the residents occurred at about 11.30pm on Sunday.

The wife,Bamidele was said to have been married to her husband for some years past not until that faithful day she was alleged for committing the act after she found out that her husband was cheating on her and had given birth to a child outside their marriage.

CityMirrorNews learnt that the act was premeditated by Bamidele as she left a message on her WhatsApp status some hours before the incident occurred.

She wrote: ”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.”

According to the victim’s friend, Gabreal Adejare, who spoke with our Correspondent in Osogbo, explained that Teebams was a Cairo-based businessman who recently returned to Nigeria to grace his wife birthday party .

“I was coming home from work with my wife on Sunday around 7:30PM when I met Ife wearing only bra and underwear walking bear-footed.

“When I move closer to my house I noticed smoke at the house where Ife was staying, I observed for a while then I realize that the house was on fire. I rushed to the house and I met the younger sister of Ife with some elderly neighbors in front of the gate. She was the one that informed me that her elder sister and her husband were quarreling.

“She told me that the sister angrily left the house locking all the doors into the house. She said she (younger sister of Ife) had left the house to inform the elders in the neighborhood to help them settle the quarrel but before she returned to the house her sister had set the house on fire, lock all the doors and left. She informed us that the husband was still inside the house.

“Instantly, I tried to put off the fire but I could not, I called for more help in the neighborhood and we mobilize to extinguish the fire.

“We were pouring sands, water and trying to break into the house through the window so as to rescue Boluwatife.

“We broke about four windows and burglaries before we could get into the house. We were able to rescue him after about 40 minutes when he was in the fire. We found him beside burnt bed and we rushed him to a nearby hospital and he was referred to Osun State University Teaching Hospital, Osogbo and later referred to Ibadan for treatment.” He explained.

Confirming the incident, the spokesperson of Osun state police command’s, SP Yemisi Opalola, said a case of attempted murder was reported at about 11.30pm on Sunday,that one Boluwatife was allegedly set ablaze by his wife and that he has been rushed to the Osogbo Central Hospital where he was referred to the University College Hospital, Ibadan (UCH) for better treatment.

The state police Command however promised to follow up the case, and to manhunt the suspect till she is arrested and punished under the law.