Nelson A.Osuala [12 July 2017]
Death has been confirmed of a middle-aged man who allegedly set himself ablaze over an allegation of his wife’s infidelity with a commoner, an errand boy at Owharen Street, Ovwian in Udu Local Council of Delta State.
Laying credence to our source, the tragic incident occurred last Friday inside the victim’s apartment.
Pandemonium filled the air, when it was discovered that the inferno had migrated to other apartments of residents destroying property worth millions of naira in the process.
An eyewitness informs that:
“On Friday when the man returned home, he locked himself, poured fuel on his body and thereafter light himself. He was burnt beyond recognition before help could come.
"Prior to this time, his wife, Blessing was caught pants down by their neighbours with a young boy who washes the Keke NAPEP of the man. The boy is one of the errand runners of the deceased in the area.
Owner of the building, Mr. Nyonren Egharan, while lamenting the incident said:
“When the fire broke out, I ran to where the fire started from, broke into the apartment and tried to rescue the victim who held on to a chair and insisted that he wanted to end his life.
“His action during the inferno that claimed his life fuels the suspicion that he may have set the house on fire by himself to reinforce the suicide argument. I sustained serious burnt from the raging fire while trying to rescue the victim.”
The landlord who claimed that all his life savings were consumed in the inferno appealed to the Delta State Government and Udu Local Council to come to his rescue to enable him start life again.
A source at the Ovwian-Aladja Police Station also confirmed the incident, adding that the victim had been evacuated to a nearby morgue and that his wife had since absconded.
Credit to The Guardian.
Nelson A.Osuala
Is a Blogger & the Assoc.Editor of Negroidhaven.
