HE MUST SURELY DIE AND BE BURIED....................SAYS FAMILY OF SLAIN BANKER

There is justifiable joy among the friends, colleagues and family of slain banker, Titilayo Omozoye Arowolo, that the antics of her husband, Akolade Arowolo who murdered her, claiming that he was insane so that he could escape the hangman’s noose, did not deceive Justice Lateefat Okunnu, the judge that presided over the homicide case. Convinced by the overwhelming evidence presented by the prosecution, the judge found Akolade guilty and accordingly sentenced him to death by hanging.
For members of Titilayo’s family, the death sentence passed on the murderer of their beloved daughter is a just recompense in the eyes of the law, which should take its course, even though, they said Akolade had been forgiven by them for the grief he caused the family through the gruesome murder. In the wake of the death sentence pronounced on Akolade, colleagues of Titilayo at the Marina, Lagos branch of Skye Bank, who spoke with Sunday Sun, also said they were pleased with the judgment. Speaking through their lawyer, Mr. Nelson Ekoh, on the outcome of the murder case, the family of slain Titilayo said: “We don’t feel he should die but the law demands so.
The principle of capital punishment is that if you took somebody’s life unjustly, you must by right forfeit your life too. And again, the case was be-tween Arowolo and the Government of Lagos State, not between the Oyakhires. The only thing we did was to appear in court to give evidence when our family was summoned. And we owed the society a duty to do that. So it is a pity that he was sentenced to death. Nobody wanted anyone to die. But then, if the law says he should die, he must die. That is it. As Christians, the Oyakhires have forgiven Arowolo but that does not mean we should not do what is required of us by the law, by giving evidence about the murder of Titilayo.
That was also the day he stabbed her to death. I recall her fondly saying, ‘This period is for me and my husband,’ with glowing smile spreading across her beautiful face.” When the reporter contacted the father of Akolade Arowolo in the family apartment in a cream two-storey building in Ejigbo, Lagos, the elderly man looked visibly disturbed. He simply said, “No comments”, when asked of his views on the death sentence passed on his son.
He, however, added that his family lawyer was heading for the Appeal Court. “There is no comment to make. Our lawyer is already appealing on the judgment. So, no comments,” he said.