When abut four weeks ago, Deolu Olatoye was naming
his second child, little did he know that he was
breathing his last days on earth.
More surprising it would have been for Deolu that two
of the so-called friends that were helping him organise
the naming ceremony would end his life so abruptly.
Deolu was reportedly stabbed severally in all parts of
his body recently by two friends and close confidants
identified as Yusuf and Mukalila.
Deolu. 32, was a father of two kids before he was
hatched to death in the room of one of his friends at
Oke-Efon, Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital.
Investigations revealed that Yusuf, one of Deolu’s two
friends, had been suspecting that he was having an
amorous affair with his wife, identified as Busayo, and
did not hid his disdain for the deceased. Strangely,
Yusuf never for one day confronted the deceased on
the charge but continued to nurse the animosity against
him.
It was on account of this accusation that Yusuf and
Mukaila allegedly connived to sniff life out of their
friend, Deolu. Eyewitnesses say that on the fateful day
that he would be hatched to death, Deolu was putting
finishing touches to the forth-coming birthday
celebration of his aged mother. He was reportedly
saddled with getting people invited for the birthday
bash. That he was doing until he met his untimely death.
It was reported that on the day he would be killed,
Deolu returned from his mother’s house and just told
his own wife that he wanted to see his two friends,
Mukaila and Yusuf. It was reported that Deolu checked
Mukaila at home, but the latter’s wife informed him her
husband and their third friend had gone out.
So, after Deolu dropped Mukaila’s invite, he reportedly
headed for Yusuf’s house where he met the latter’s wife
at home. It was reported that while Deolu was coming
down the stairs of Yusuf’s house, the two friends were
also coming in and they asked that their departing
friend returned upstairs.
Deolu reportedly heeded his friend’s request and when
they were all at Yusuf’s room, the two friends subjected
the deceased to beating, using a knife all over his body.
Once they were satisfied with their action, Mukaila and
Yusuf reportedly left the house. An eyewitness account
claimed that the two suspected cultists headed for a
police station nearby to report the matter. But while
there, they reported to law enforcements of a
disagreement with a friend which left the latter injured.
Upon hearing their story, it was reported that law
enforcement agents asked that Mukaila returned home
to take the injured friend to the hospital. That was the
last they saw of Mukaila, as he took to this heels. A
neighbour, indentified as Mama Ibukun told reporters
that the deceased struggled with life until he gave up
the ghost. According to the fashion designer, “The noise
coming from the man (Yusuf)’s room alerted a lot of
people in the neighbourhood, but since such cries was
a recurring decimal there, no one really bothered to
enquire what the noise was about.
It was later we heard that the noise was that of Brother
Deolu who we all know as a friend to the man living in
that room,” she said. Yusuf’s wife, who was suspected
to be having an amorous affair with the deceased, upon
interrogation informed law enforcement agents that she
was actually close with the deceased. The woman
claimed that she and the deceased used to work
together before but denied having an affair with him.
The woman was quoted as saying, “It was strange and
surprising to hear that I was dating brother Deolu. I
had been known to him now for long and my husband
even knows that we used to work together. But to hear
that it was because of me that they did what they did to
him was unbelievable.
There was no such a time the man even asked me out to
start with,” the woman reportedly told law enforcement
agents. Muyiwa Odejobi, Ogun State Police Command
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