The last may not have been heard of the circumstances surrounding the death of Mr. Edward Kehinde Soje, a director in the Kogi State Teaching Service Commission (TSC), who committed suicide on October 16, barely ten days after his wife of seventeen years gave birth to their only children, male triplets.
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Early reports suggested that Late Soje killed himself because he was owed eleven months salary arrears by the Kogi State Government and was unable to meet his family’s needs.
A claim the state government debunked. It said Late Soje was owed only nine months and couldn’t have killed himself because of it, adding that he knew he was about being paid.
A new twist has been added to the controversy by the immediate younger brother of the deceased, Mr. Cornelius Soje, who accused the Late Director’s widow of pushing him to suicide.
Cornelius revealed that the deceased had a troubled marriage and got paralysed after suffering stroke in 2008 but later regained his health blaming his widow for his ill-health.
He also claimed that the widow may have pushed Late Soje to suicide after she told him(the deceased) that the triplets were not his.
“My late brother called me on the phone and expressed to me that he was disallowed from naming the kids. It was the wife who gave the kids names. My late brother was not permitted to give them names. The wife did.
“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,” Cornelius told Vanguard.
