Mystery As Lover Allegedly Kills 27-Year Old Lady & Family Wants It Silenced

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Mystery As Lover Allegedly Kills 27-Year Old Lady & Family Wants It Silenced

She was supposed to go to her parents' house at Oshodi on that fateful Friday like she usually did every weekend after closing from work as a secondary school teacher at Abule Oko, a community in Ogun State.
But this day - June 23, 2016 - turned out to be different for both her and her family.

After waiting till Friday night and still didn't hear anything from her daughter, with her two mobile phone lines switched off, her father was troubled and had to come looking for her.

There and then he got one of the most shocking moments any parent could ever witness.

The door to her apartment was locked, but one of the windows was opened.
He asked her neighbours whether they had seen her that day, but all of them said no. They last saw her on Thursday when she returned from work.
He was confused, didn't know whether his daughter was inside or not, so he kept on trying her phone lines, all to no avail.

After reaching his patience limit, he called on a carpenter in the area to force the door open and then everyone was horrified - her daughter la!d in her own blood, a pillow case covering her face and her body already swollen.

Someone had murdered her in cold blood when she was sleeping and had taken her two mobile phones away.

According to an eyewitness who spoke on condition of anonymity, the death of Yemisi Tiamiyu, a 27-year-old University of Lagos graduate, is still one of the most mysterious events the source had ever witnessed.

"It is still a mystery to me up till now because Yemisi was an easygoing lady who could never have offended anybody," the source said. "I saw her last on Thursday and we greeted before she went to sleep. When I didn't see her on Friday, I thought she went to work early, which was strange, only for us to find her on Saturday murdered when her door was forced open on the order of her father."

What could have led to her murder?

The source said no one had yet to find out, but that she was seen on the day before she was murdered shouting at a guy on the phone.

The source said, "I overheard her shouting at a guy, I think it's her boyfriend, on the phone. Both of them were involved in a heated argument and she was uttering the words: 'Leave me alone. Leave me alone. I don't want you in my life again.' I even told her to take it easy with him and asked what the argument was all about, but she didn't say anything. She was a conservative lady, she didn't talk much to people.
"She told me not to worry, that she would sort out everything. That was on Thursday evening. She must have been murdered in the early hours of Friday and there is suspicion she was killed by the guy. It is very painful what the murderer did to a very beautiful lady like Yemisi."

One would expect that this atrocity would have generated an outrage and a cry for justice by the family, the school where she taught, the residents and the community, but the reverse is the case.

In fact, the source who spoke to Punch said everyone - including her family - had been trying to let the situation lie low.

"They strictly warned us never to let the incident leak out. But how could I, as a human being, keep quiet when a fellow human being was murdered in a mysterious circumstance? What is the family hiding? Why is everyone keeping quiet over this issue?" the source bem0aned.

Asked if the source had ever seen the guy with Tiamiyu before, the source said, "I have never seen him before, so I don't know how he looks."

Wanting to let the incident 'die' was clearly evident when Punch visited the deceased's apartment on 24, Unity Crescent, Abule Oko.

The unpainted house sits idly between two uncompleted buildings, locked up. Everywhere was quiet, except for the chattering of some neighbours.

"We don't want to talk about this issue and we are not going to. Whoever informed you of this incident should also tell you who killed Yemisi. There is an order to that effect, even by her father and the rest of the family. We don't know the murderer; we have neve