The dust raised by the death of Alaba Bakare, a 36-year-old Lagos businessman and owner of Bama Hotel in Ojokoro area of Lagos, is yet to settle as family members of the deceased are demanding justice.

Bakare, the owner of Bama Hotel located in Ojokoro part of Lagos was said to have been killed with a hot pressing iron by his 27-year-old wife, Motunrayo Oluwatoyin, at their residence on Finance Road, Maplewood Estate in Oko-Oba area of Lagos State in the early hours of January 24.

Motunrayo was said to have accused her deceased husband of infidelity, resulting in a fight during which she stamped a hot pressing iron Bakare’s chest.

Motunrayo, a native of Ibeshe in Yewa area of Ogun State, has since been kept in police custody.

Family members insist that only the dispensation of justice inthe matter can assuage the pain of losing Bakare, who they described as their breadwinner.

One of his relatives, Mrs. Funmilayo Abiola Describing the death of Bakare as an act of wickedness, one of his relatives, Mrs Funmilayo Abiola, said it was the third time that Motunrayo would make an on the life of her now deceased husband.

She said: “I am a sister to the deceased. This is the third time the woman (Bakare’s wife) would attack her husband.

“First, she stabbed him at their residence during a misunderstanding. To avoid her trouble, my brother fled to Dubai, but his wife trailed him to Dubai and stabbed him again during an argument.

“He reported the incident to his father and sought treatment at a hospital in Dubai before they both returned to Nigeria.

“I learnt they quarrelled all night, during which she attacked him again, leading to his death.”

Mrs Abiola, who said the couple had been married for about 11 years with three children, described the late Bakare as a reserved individual who would not flirt around with other women, adding that one would ordinarily expect a peaceful home with such a man.

She added: “His wife does not want any of his family members around him. Not even her father-in-law who she humiliated by not serving him any meal when the man visited his son at their residence in Maplewood Estate.”

Our correspondent gathered that Bakare paid Motunrayo the sum of N250,000 as monthly upkeep besides other perks, and she was also the one managing Bama Hotel.

“What else does she want? Just last month (December 2021), my brother bought an iPhone worth N500,000 and a brand new N12 million Mercedes  Benz car for this same woman on her birthday. Yet she killed him,” Mrs. Abiola wondered.

Continuing, she said: “My brother told us (his family members) on the day of their engagement that his wife was a food vendor around his workplace.

“I told him that I had a reservation about their relationship because he was learned, but he insisted that he loved her.

“She suspected that he was seeing another woman, so she attacked him.

“We want justice for my brother. We want her prosecuted for her wickedness,” she added.

An employee of the deceased’s haulage and merchandise company, Monday Tanimowo, who said he was around when the couple started quarrelling,  explained that Bakare’s wife picked a quarrel with him and warned him to stop coming to their house as he had visited his boss on the day the quarrel occurred.

Tanimowo said: I am one of his employees at his courier and merchandise company. The company imports goods from overseas and it is also into haulage.

“I used to live with the couple until June last year when I moved out of their home.

“However, I was at their residence when their argument started on the eve of his death.

“I actually went there on the invitation of my boss to fix his children’s computer, which my boss said the children needed to carry out some school assignments.

“When I got there, I met his wife coming down from their apartment tothe middle floor, and she did not acknowledge my greetings.

“She later came to me as I was discussing with her husband, accusing me that I refused to heed her warning that I should stop visiting her husband at home.

“Her husband asked her if she didn’t want anyone to come close to him but she gave no response.

“My boss then asked me to leave, saying that he would speak with me on the phone. By the time, he spoke with me on the phone later that evening, I heard his wife in the background shouting at him on top of her voice, saying that whatever she wanted was what my boss must do.”

Tanimowo said he was expecting to hear from his boss the next day only to receive a call that he was rushed to the hospital after he fainted.