Update: Police Arrest Wife Of Hotelier Who Murdered Him Over Another Woman

By Akinwale Kasali

Alaba Bakare, Proprietor of the popular Bama Hotel and Suites in Abule Egba, Lagos State,  never had the premonition of his own death.

He never knew death was lurking around him and that its agent was right beside him, his better half.

Bakare was murdered by his wife, Motunrayo,  for allegedly impregnating another woman.

Prior to carrying the wicked and dastardly act, Bakare, his wife and their three children had gone to Dubai  and had just returned. They had gone for a holiday.

Motunrayo had, allegedly, got information that her husband had impregnated another lady, an information she got shortly after their holiday in Dubai.

Pushed by devilish hatred and jealousy, he decided to teach her husband a lesson.

And she went about it in a most ghoulish manner. Very horrifyingly meticulous.

First, she reportedly drugged her husband on  Monday night. Then she did the unprecedented. She had an iron heat-up. And then, placed the hot iron on parts of his body until he died.

Confirming her arrest, Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, CSP Ade Ajisebutu, said: “The body has been deposited at the Yaba Mainland Hospital’s morgue for autopsy.

“The deceased’s wife and three others have been arrested in connection with the suspected murder case.”

Ajisebutu added that the Commissioner of Police, CP Abiodun Alabi, instructed that the case be transferred immediately to the State Criminal Investigation Department, Yaba, for diligent investigation.

Motunrayo, however, has a different story on the murder of her husband. She said she had an argument with him because he refused to sack a worker.

She added that during a fight that ensued, she used a hot iron to burn Alaba’s chest.

“After the attack on Sunday, she said, her husband and her junior brother left the house to relax at a bar before returning home later in the day. When he returned, she said they gisted and went to sleep

“She said she advised her husband to apply something on his chest, but he said she should not worry because it was a small thing and it would heal.

“She later said that they were having fun the following day when her husband suddenly started gasping for breath. They wore clothes and rushed him to a hospital where he died on that same day. She never said she drugged her husband.

But another source said:

“We also heard the story of her husband impregnating someone and it led to a quarrel between them. But investigation is still ongoing,” the source added.

According to CSP Ajisebutu: “His body has been deposited at the Yaba Mainland Hospital’s morgue for an autopsy.

The deceased’s wife and three others have been arrested in connection with the suspected murder case.”

The deceased and his wife were married for Eight years.