The family members, neighbours and friends of a 37-year-old farmer, Kehinde Egbeyi, are currently in a mourning mood after his corpse and that of his wife, Bukola, were found at their residence at Oke Erinja, Ilaro-Owode Road, in the Yewa South Local Government Area of Ogun State.
The PUNCH reports that the couple, who lived with a relative identified simply as Joel, were watching a movie with their colleagues at Joel’s residence and later went to sleep in their various rooms in the building.
Things, however, took another turn when everyone except the couple left their respective rooms to prepare to go to the farm to do their jobs for the day.
It was learnt that Joel called Kehinde and his wife to leave their room but got no response.
Surprised by the development, Joel and his other colleagues broke down the door of Kehinde’s apartment, and they found him and his wife lying motionless on their bed.
Speaking with our correspondent, a source said the couple retired into their room without any sign of sickness on Monday evening, adding that when their corpses were found in the room, they alerted the police to the incident.
“Joel, Kehinde and his wife, and some other colleagues were all watching a movie in the sitting room that night. After watching the movie, they all went into their rooms, and Kehinde met his wife there.
“But in the morning when others were set to go to the farm, they did not see Kehinde and his wife, and they decided to knock on the room door but no one answered.
“It was when they did not get any response after some time that they forced the door of the room open and saw their corpses on the bed. Blood was dripping out of Kehinde’s nostrils while a foamy substance was coming out of his wife’s nostrils,” the source said.
The source ruled out the possibility of the deceased dying from generator fumes, saying no such item was in the room or outside the premises of the building.
In a bid to ascertain the cause of death of the couple, it was learnt that some of the family consulted a herbalist. In contrast, some other aggrieved family members reported the case at the Owode Idiroko Police Station from where policemen were sent to the scene.
On getting to the scene, our correspondent gathered that the policemen insisted on evacuating the corpses to the mortuary for an autopsy to reveal the cause of death but the bereaved family rejected the plan, insisting that they had taken the couple’s death as the will of God.
