The question on the lips of neighbours, friends and other relatives of the couple is why would Kolade kill Titilayo, the mother of his three-year old daughter? What is even more strange is that the incident took place on his 30th birthday.
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A colleague of Titilayo, who used to work at the Marina branch of the bank but was recently transferred, told Sunday Sun that Titilayo was a hardworking and jovial lady with a lovable personality. Her voice laden with emotion, she recalled her relationship with the deceased, saying: “I’ve known Titilayo for more than three years. She joined Marina branch over a year ago. She joined Skye bank about four years ago and I can tell you that she never received a query from the bank.
That is to show you how committed she was to her job.
“But what has been strange about her is that on some occasions, she had come to work with injuries but no one suspected that she was being abused. There was a day she came to work in bandage but when I asked her how she sustained the injuries, she said she fell from okada.
Two weeks ago, another colleague saw marks on her hands but when asked how she got the bruises, she said she slipped on the stairs in the house. It is now that I’m beginning to connect the dots. Titilayo was small in stature and her husband is big. I can only imagine the sort of beating he would have been giving her. I regret not noticing on time. Probably, we would have been able to avert this disaster,” the lady lamented.
Sunday Sun learnt that Titilayo was an introvert and this probably explains why many people around her never knew about her troubled marriage. Our source said “Titi was so much in love with Akolade. On many occasions, she would distribute copies of Akolade’s curriculum vitae to colleagues in the office because she was eager to see him get a job. Akolade however, never appreciated her. Sometimes, he would seize her cheque book, ATM cards and her car keys as punishment whenever they fought even though she was the one sustaining the family financially.”
Sunday Sun checks revealed that on the day Titilayo was murdered, she had just started her leave from work so as to spend more time with her husband and daughter because she hardly had time for them due to the demanding nature of her job.
“Titilayo was very happy last Thursday because her leave was to start on Friday, which happened to be her husband’s 30th birthday. She said the leave period would be for just herself and her husband. Because she had no housemaid, she used to leave her daughter in the care of her father and her stepmother on Mondays and then pick her up on Friday,” the source said.
Anothersource added that on the day she was killed, the couple had a quarrel as usual. And neigbhours heard their loud voices as they argued in their flat but they didn’t bother to investigate as the couple frequently fought.
However, they began to suspect foul play when after a while they spotted Kolade hurriedly leaving the house, wearing a blood stained shirt. He got into the car and sped off.
It took two days later before they found out that Titilayo had been stabbed to death. Sunday Sun learnt that they had to break into the house. Another relative of Titilayo who pleaded anonymity said that they became worried after making several calls to the couple’s numbers to congratulate them on Kolade’s birthday but the numbers did not go through after two days.
Disturbed by this, they visited their house to find out what was amiss. And that was when they discovered her corpse after forcing the door open.
A friend of Kolade contacted by Sunday Sun, who doesn’t want his name in print, described Kolade as “a very easy-going young man who can hardly harm a fly.” He wondered what could have led into the alleged act.
All efforts to reach Kolade’s parents have proved abortive. Meanwhile, he has been in custody of State Criminal Investigation Department, Panti, Yaba, Lagos.
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