HER screams attracted the vigilantes, but before they got to her place, her attackers had fled, leaving her in a pool of blood.
Nobody knew how the assailants entered Mrs Grace Ebyna Jubreel’s Ibeshe, Ikorodu, Lagos home around 3am last Sunday. Their mission also remains a mystery.
Yesterday, her Osogbo, Osun State-based husband, Abimbola Olalekan Jubreel, said they might have come To Molest.
The only witness, the Jubreels only daughter, who is 14 months old, cannot explain what happened.
The vigilantes met her crying, with her mother writhing in pain when they arrived.
They also saw the stone and weapons with which Mrs. Jubreel was attacked inside the sitting room.
The vigilantes rushed her to Ikorodu General Hospital from where she was transferred to the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Ikeja.
Mrs Jubreel, a teacher at the Methodist Primary School, Ibeshe, died 20 minutes into the battle to save her life.
A distraught Jubreel said he did not know that his family’s visit to Osogbo during the last mid-term break between May 25 and 30 would be the last time he would see his wife.
He said on getting to Lagos, he saw blood littering his sitting room and his wife’s torn underwear was on the floor. Her phone, he said, was taken away.
He said: “She must have struggled with the hoodlums when they attempted To Molest her because I saw everywhere scattered and found her underwear, torn on the floor. I still wonder if my wife is dead already.
I visit Ikorodu every two weeks to see my wife and daughter. I got the shocking news around 5:00 on Sunday from the neighbours that my wife was robbed and injured by some unknown robbers.
Before I arrived in Ikorodu on Sunday, I learnt the neighbours and vigilantes had taken her to the Ikorodu General Hospital.
When I got to our room, I saw a stone on the floor and I assume that must have been what they used to hit her because she was bleeding seriously on the head and through the mouth.
We were referred to LASUTH in Ikeja that Sunday but not long we got to the hospital after 20 minutes, she died.
“Our one-year and two-month old daughter was with her mother when the incident occurred.
Therefore, that must have made the little girl cold because she witnessed everything that transpired.
She was in shock all through Sunday. The girl is very smart; it’s just that she cannot explain anything.”
Jubreel said his wife was “targeted”, stating: “I learnt they opened the net which they came in through.
We have three tenants, one man and two women. Our landlord, however, makes it four but he is not always around. He has another house he lives.
But she was the only vulnerable person they attacked. Other tenants were not.
It was the vigilantes that rushed to her when they heard her screams but before they got there, the culprits had fled.
I know my wife is not the kind of person that quarrels with anyone. It is from house to school and back home.
My wife was an easy going person and we spend most of the time talking to each other on phone.
She was bleeding profusely and they gave her blood at the General Hospital, Ikorodu before she was taken to LASUTH.
She was being attended to by the doctor before she died. The doctor tried to resuscitate her but it was futile.”
Women protested the incessant attacks on them at the traditional ruler’s palace yesterday.
Jubreel said the women went to express their grievances over the latest incident, adding: “I equally learnt that my wife’s case was not the first as reported cases of rape had occurred many times in Ibeshe.
It was obvious they wanted To Molest my wife also.”
The late Mrs Jubreel, it was leant, will be buried today.
“We are still in LASUTH to collect her remains and the burial will be taking place at her mother’s place in Maya, Ikorodu tomorrow (today) around 10am. I definitely want justice to be done on this matter because it is a big loss to me.
Our marriage is barely up to five years and we are a young couple. My wife is the kind of woman one will always want in his team. I am not settled since morning. After the burial, I will start taking steps in seeking justice,” he said.
The late Mrs Jubreel, who hailed from Anambra State, was a graduate of Education from Tai Solarin University of Education in Ijagun, Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State.
Source: TheNation