Kogi State Government said it has given N1,627,000 to Mrs. Grace Adebusola Soje, the widow of late Edward Soje, a director in the state’s Teaching Service Commission who allegedly committed suicide in October.
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In a statement signed by the State Head of Service, Deborah Ogunmola, the government said the money was meant to offset the hospital bill of the widow and her triplet.
“I am glad to announce to you that all the accumulated hospital bills of Mrs. Grace Adebusola Soje, and that of her kids have been cleared,” Ogunmola, who is also a relation of the Sojes said.
“Edward Soje was not just my staff; he was also married to my sister-in-law. His death is shocking, both as one related to him in some way, and one responsible for him in an official capacity,” the Head of Service had said while puncturing media reports that the deceased committed suicide because the state government owed him eleven months salary arrears.
Late Soje’s body was found hanging from a tree behind the mammy market at Chari Maigumeri Barracks in Lokoja, on October 16, barely ten days after his wife of seventeen years gave birth to their only children, male triplets.
His younger brother, Mr. Cornelius Soje, in an interview accused the Late Director’s widow of pushing him to suicide.
Cornelius said, “My brother called me on the phone and 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.”
