Five months after Titilayo (Omozoje) Arowolo was allegedly murdered by her husband, Akolade, PUNCH METRO has learnt that her remains would be buried on Wednesday at the Atan Cemetery, Yaba.The funeral will commence at 10am at Foursquare Gospel Church, Oyingbo, Lagos.A member of the slain bankers family, who did not wish to be named, told our correspondent on the telephone on Sunday that, The service will hold at Foursquare Gospel Church, Oyingbo on Wednesday and she will be buried later the same day at Atan Cemetery. The coroners inquest will take place on Friday. Policemen from the State Criminal Investigation Department, a pathologist as well as some family members of the deceased who first saw her corpse after she was murdered will be in court on Friday.Since the court has established through an autopsy that she did not kill herself as earlier claimed by her husband, the family deems it fit to now give her a proper burial. In view of the controversy that surrounds her killing, it was necessary that an autopsy should be carried out on her corpse, so that we can also establish our case that she was murdered.The family of the slain banker had earlier lamented the delay in getting the autopsy report, which had left the slain bankers remains in the morgue for months.It was gathered that the autopsy was carried out by a professor at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja.Although the autopsy revealed that Titilayo was murdered, Akolade maintained that his 29-year-old wife stabbed herself to death. He had also admitted that he was the last person to see her alive.But the Directorate of Public Prosecutions in its advice, which was read before a Yaba Chief Magistrates Court on November 1, 2011, noted that the slain banker could not have killed herself.The post-mortem shows extensive injuries consistent with use of a knife, which could not have been self-inflicted as claimed by Akolade, it said.Akolades counsel has therefore been saddled with the task of proving to the court how it was possible for the deceased to have killed herself amid substantial evidence against his client.At the last hearing date on October 31, Chief Magistrate Demi Ajayi, ordered that Akolade should remain in prison custody till the Directorate of Public Prosecutions decided to charge him at the high court.She said it was necessary for the court to be informed so that the charges against Akolade would be struck out at the lower court.She subsequently adjourned the matter till December 12 for notification of when Akolade would be arraigned at the high court.Akolade is accused of murdering Titilayo with a knife on June 24, 2011 at their 8, Akindehinde Street home in the Isolo area of Lagos.
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