Cornelius Soje, immediate younger
brother of the Kogi State Civil Service director that committed suicide
recently, Edward Kehinde Soje, has blamed the death on the deceased’s wife.
Cornelius claimed that the woman
turned his brother to her puppet.
He said his brother always
narrated his family troubles to him and that after some time, the deceased
stopped complaining and he (Cornelius) thought the troubles had been resolved.
He said, “My late brother called
me on the phone and expressed to me that he was disallowed from naming the
kids. It was the wife who gave the kids names.
“My late brother was not
permitted to give them names. The wife did. My brother told me that his wife
said he was not the father of the triplets.
“My brother thought it was a joke
until the woman stressed it to him by asking, ‘How can you think you are the
owners of the babies?’
“My brother said he could not
forget the statement and was seriously distressed by it. I told him not to take
his wife’s statement serious but view it as a woman’s careless talk.
“He left the hospital and that
was the last time anybody saw my brother alive.”
He claimed that from the Saturday
when the deceased went missing, the wife did not notify any family member until
the following Tuesday when she called his sibling, Mrs Alice Turkwo, in Ilorin.
“It was my sister in Ilorin who
told me the wife called to say our brother was missing. When she did around 6pm
on that Tuesday, I called her on phone but she kept telling me not to disturb
her as she had migraine and needed to rest.
“Out of annoyance I ended the
call. I tried to call her line later but, since then, she had put off her phone
and none of us could reach her. It was a friend who hinted us of a suicide
story in town.
“We checked with the army and
discovered it was actually our brother that was in the photograph taken before
they invited the police to take over the case.”
The deceased younger brother
dismissed the claim that it was financial depression that led his brother to
commit suicide, adding, “The unpaid salary had nothing to do with the suicide.
“My brother had been surviving
without salary for months, why now? He could survive without salary for two
years. The house he sold at Zariagi was because he didn’t like the location and
he had started using the proceeds to build another one around Phase Two,
Lokoja.
“Whether the claim by the wife,
as reported to me by our late brother, that he was not the father of the
triplets is true or not, the kids are innocent. And we are ready to take them
as ours. And we’ll help them. My brother was a good man. We were the only two
male children of our parents.”
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Do the DNA to establish the babies' paternity. Yes, they are innocent and you can decide to help nurture them but you have to draw the lines. If the DNA proves that they are not your brother's children do not take them as his. He lost his life according to you base on this issue. The woman should be banished from your family for adultery and for having the gut to rub it on her husband's face
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