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Married Man Sets Himself Ablaze Over Abusive Wife In Osun

 

 

A 30-years-old newly married artisan simply identified as Muritala Afolabi has sustained serious injuries having set himself ablaze over wife nagging and abuses.

 

Muritala Afolabi who is resident of Iree community Boripe Local Government area of Osun, was rescued by some people who heard his cry rushed him to a private hospital, where he was admitted.

 

Speaking from his sick bed on Sunday, Muritala, a vulcaniser, said he decided to commit suicide having been subjected to emotional torture and frustration by his wife.

 

He said he got married to his wife in July 2022 and since then, the woman had made life difficult by cursing and abusing him.

 

According to him, “I just thought of ending it. That Friday, I went into a filing station, bought fuel and went to a forest behind Baptist High School, Iree, and set myself ablaze.

 

“I thought of what I was passing through and it made me to decide to end my life. Poverty and repeated curses of my wife made me to lose hope. I married the woman just in July this year.

 

“Some people heard me when fire was burning my body and rushed to the scene.

 

They rescued me and brought me to hospital.”

 

When contacted on the phone, Muritala’s wife, Ifedolapo, denied cursing him.

 

She said, “I don’t know why he decided to kill himself. I am his wife. I am yet to have any child for him.”

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