Sogei, 50, was said to have poisoned his wife’s food and later slit her throat while she slept because he wanted to make sure she died. This followed years of beating the wife, identified as Roselyn Sogei.
He was said to have shared the poisoned food with his wife, but later took an antidote. He killed his wife and tried to pin the murder on his 16-yearold son, Richmond Sogei.
It was Richmond who found his mother’s body soaked in blood. He also found his father vomiting black stuff in the bathroom. Richmond also said that the gate to the house was locked. He added that nobody could have come in or left the house.
Sogei attempted to bolt, but neighbours held him and alerted the police. He was said to have pretended to be mentally unbalanced after his arrest, but policemen refused to fall for his antics. He later collapsed and was rushed to the hospital.
Speculation is that the antidote apparently didn’t work as Sogei expected. Yesterday, Sogei was being guarded by policemen at the Falomo General Hospital, Ikoyi, Lagos, where he was receiving treatment. A police source said that he was unconscious.
The source added that doctors were still trying to revive the suspect, who became unconscious shortly after he was taken into police custody on Friday. “The suspect initially acted as if he was insane by shouting ‘chemical! chemical!
I’m dying!’ He was unable to stand without support; then he suddenly collapsed,” the source said. Roselyn’s relatives said Sogei slaughtered their daughter, disposed the knife used to commit the crime as well as cleaned the blood stains to erase any trace after committing the crime.
They felt it was premeditated murder. Denying the allegations, the brother of the suspect, who refused to disclose his name, said Sogei was attacked by the same people who murdered Roselyn.
The man said: “My brother told me that his wife, who was selling at Ijora market, was indebted to some people and they had been calling her in the middle of the night, asking her to pay their money. He told me that they were the ones that killed his wife and poured a poisonous substance into his mouth.”
A resident in the compound, who pleaded anonymity, said a new discovery had it that Sogei set fire to the mattress and some household items but the fire was extinguished by residents. The resident added that the children of the couple fled their home since Friday of the incident.
A house help, who lived with the family identified simply as Aishat, said she ran away from the house because of the aggressive nature of Sogei, whom she alleged was fond of beating his wife. She said: “I had to run away from the family because of the man.
Every night, he would beat his wife. He used to visit herbalist and burn different candles in the house. Since he lost his job as a trailer driver, his wife had become the bread winner of the family.
“For many years, she paid the children’s school fees, even the one in the university. She would pay the house rent and provide food for the entire family. At a time, I said my madam didn’t deserve what she was passing through.”
Another resident said that Roselyn was a hard working woman who would wake up at 4.30am, leave for her shop at Ijora and return around 11pm every day. “The woman had always tried to make sure that the effects of her husband’s joblessness didn’t show.”
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