Adegboyega's office
There was confusion in the Bariga area
of Lagos State last week when the decomposing corpse of an estate agent,
simply identified as Adegboyega, was discovered by his wife and
neighbours in his office.
A resident told PUNCH Metro on
the condition of anonymity that Adegboyega’s wife had shown up at her
spouse’s office on Odugbuwa Street, Bariga, because he had not come
home.
She had reportedly told residents on
Odugbuwa Street that Adegboyega failed to show up at his Mowe home as
was his practice every weekend.
It was learnt that due to the nature of
his work, Adegboeyga used to pass the night at his office from Monday to
Thursday and returned home every Friday for the weekend. His phone
number was also said to have been unavailable throughout the weekend.
When Adegboyega’s wife and neighbours
reportedly knocked on the doors of his office, they smelled an offensive
odour emanating from the locked doors.
Afraid that the odour could portend
something sinister, Adegboyega’s nieghours advised the wife to lodge a
complaint at the Bariga Police Division.
PUNCH Metro gathered that
Adegboyega’s wife returned a few hours later with some policemen, who
then broke into the office to discover Adegboyega’s already rotten
corpse, covered with a cloth. The door to his office was said to have
been locked from outside, making residents to allege murder.
A neighbour craving anonymity said, “The
last time we saw Adegboyega was two weeks ago, when he was rejoicing
that he had been selected as the next councilor for ward B in the next
local government election. Nobody can say for sure what must have
transpired the Friday of his death because we cannot recall seeing
anything suspicious. We suspect foul play though because the door of his
office was locked from the outside; someone must have done that.”
Due to the state of the corpse, PUNCH Metro
gathered that the policemen were unable to evacuate it immediately.
They were said to have called on some health workers to take the
decomposing remains to the mortuary.
There was no response from the Lagos
State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Ngozi Braide as calls to her
phone rang out and there was no reply to a text message sent to it.
