WAS Funke Balogun, 24, killed? Her family is alleging that
she was killed.
But her boyfriend Abolade Adetunji and his family are
claiming that she was electrocuted.
Funke, who was a National Diploma II student of Yaba College
of Technology (YABATECH), was allegedly electrocuted on a hotel bathroom on
Sunday.
The incident happened on 30, Balogun Street, Oshodi in Lagos
where she and Adetunji, lodged in his mother’s hotel that was commissioned last
Thursday.
Her younger sister, Funmi, said Abolade came to pick her
sister at their residence on Saturday around 11pm, adding that was the last she
saw of her.
She said: “Abolade was in a hurry that night and I told my
sister not to go but she picked some of her things and left with him. On Sunday
morning around 7, she called and said plans had changed that they were not
going to the beach again but to a hotel and since then, we have been trying her
mobile line. When she didn’t pick her call, I became worried. That day was her
birthday and our mother still called her in the midnight to pray for her. Even,
when my mum called Abolade’s mobile line, someone picked and said he forgot his
phone and since then his lime has been switched off.”
Funmi said when she and some family members went to the
hotel to check her, they didn’t see her, adding that the receptionist said
Adetunji just stepped out and wasn’t with a girl.
“Even when we got to Abolade’s house, we were told he had
gone to the beach. Around 8pm on Sunday, my cousin and I went to the hotel
again, I sighted blood on the wall and when I asked Abolade’s brother, Bayo
where my sister was, he said: ‘at the moment, Funke is dead’; he said it
without remorse and was still icing drinks in the freezer. Even when we went to
the police station, they said they were not aware of the incident. Is that how
my sister will die? She has been dating him for almost a year. He just returned
from National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) orientation camp in Anambra State. The
boy is very proud to the extent that whenever he visited her, he didn’t greet
anyone.”
Adetunji told The Nation on his hospital bed yesterday that
the late Funke wanted to have her bath that morning when they realised there
was no toothpaste in the toilet.
He said: “She was already in the bathroom and I went to meet
my brother who was on the same floor with us to get the toothpaste. As I
returned to the room, I tried to open the toilet door but it was stiff. As I
gained access to the toilet, I met her on the floor with a shower handle on her
right hand. When I tried to carry her, I didn’t know what happened until I saw
myself on hospital bed.”
At their home, his father, Mr Jamiu Adetunji, A. K.A (Yaro),
said Abolade’s elder brother called their mother that they needed a doctor.
Adetunji said: “Immediately we took them to Geo Medical
Centre where Funke eventually gave up. We first took her to General Hospital,
Ikeja but she was rejected because there was none of her family members with
us. It was later we reported the incident to Akinpelu Police Station where they
took the body to Yaba mortuary. I wouldn’t want to kill someone else’s
daughter. Funke was my son’s girl friend and I told her to help me monitor his
movement because at times he wouldn’t listen and since he talked about her
dearly, I felt she was going to inspire him.
It is really unfortunate. My son
has put me in trouble. Even when they wanted to know the girl’s full name, I
pinched my son few times just for him to wake up. I have arrested the
electrician that connected light to the building because last Friday, occupants
of the building beside the hotel complained of shock in their house and I told
the electrician but he refused to come. It was after the incident he came and
was arrested. “
Some family members claimed that the late Funke’s skin was
still fresh when they visited the mortuary, adding that there was no sign of
electrocution except for her swollen right arm.
The bereaved mother, Mrs Kehinde Balogun, said she still
spoke with her daughter on Sunday morning.
She said:”Funke was my first child and she has a
three-year-old son. The only reason they live alone is because her school is
close to the family house in Oshodi. Why did they kill my beauty? Why? What
have I done to deserve this? I wish she listened to her sister that night
because she had a dream. I saw my daughter in my sleep this morning telling me
she had returned.
It is unfortunate. I wish it was a reality. It is a big
tragedy because where she died was three houses from where I gave birth to her.
I warned her about him but she told me he was okay and assured me everything
was fine.”
Source:The Nation
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