On the 6th of February this year, Mrs. Oyetola Oluwaseun Spiff (Nee Odunlami) who was simply called “Tola” by her loved ones, was brought in unconscious to the Obanleaje Hospital in Obanikoro, Lagos at about 3pm by her husband, Mr. George Ikoli-Spiff.
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On the 6th of February this year, Mrs. Oyetola Oluwaseun Spiff (Nee Odunlami) who was simply called “Tola” by her loved ones, was brought in unconscious to the Obanleaje Hospital in Obanikoro, Lagos at about 3pm by her husband, Mr. George Ikoli-Spiff.
When Tola, a 36 year old mother of two boys and the marketing manager of JKK Komputers Ikorodu Road Lagos, was brought in to the hospital, George kept insisting to the hospital staff that Tola took some poison after they had a serious quarrel. The hospital staff asked George how he knew it was poison, but he could provide no satisfactory answer.
Tola ultimately passed on the 9th of February 2011 and the autopsy report confirms she was poisoned, since then her father and brothers with the help of the Homicide Team of the Nigerian Police Force have been working day and night to get to the root of what is beginning to look like a murder investigation.
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Tola’s older brother, Mr. Abiodun Odunlami, a UK based solicitor has been leading the family’s effort seeking the truth behind her sister’s death. Last week Wednesday, the Police extended an invitation to George Spiff to come in for questioning in respect of the investigation; the invitation expires on Wednesday 27th July 2011. Since the Police issued the invitation to George, Odunlami’s life has been consistently harassed by members of George’s family.
On the 23rd July 2011 at about six pm, a certain Mr. Anthony George Ikoli called Odunlami imploring and pressuring him to prevail on the police to withdraw the invitation to George, in a call which could pass as a threat, he informed Abiodun that he is not only the Attorney General of Bayelsa State, but that he was also a SAN and could make one phone call to Abuja to make life uncomfortable for the entire Odunlami family. He also told Odunlami that he belongs to many prestigious socio/political organizations in Lagos insinuating that he could make life further uncomfortable for Odunlami if he doesn’t back off.
For those of us who knew the ever smiling beautiful Tola Odunlami in FGGC Owerri and in UI or those who were touched by her warm personality during her short career and life, please help circulate this note and implore Mr. George Ikoli-Spiff to honor the police invitation before the 27th of July as requested, if he has nothing to hide I don’t see why he should be afraid to go and say what he knows to the police, after all he was the last person that was with Tola alive. We are also appealing to the “big man” Mr. Anthony George Ikoli to allow the police do their job after all we are in a democracy.
We are also telling Mr. Ikoli that we join hands with the Almighty God to keep an eye on every member of the Odunlami family, we pray for everyone’s sake that nothing happens to anyone of them especially, Abiodun.
This is my plea to George Ikoli-Spiff please GO AND ANSWER THE POLICE TO CLEAR YOUR NAME. God will expose whoever had a hand in Tola’s death. Let’s keep Tola's picture on our profile till those invited by the police show up on Wednesday.
WE LOVE YOU TOLA and we need to know what took you away from us so suddenly.
REST IN PEACE, pleasant one.
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UPDATE- Mr. George Ikoli-Spiff, husband of the deceased Oyetola "Toya" Oluwaseun Spiff, has turned himself over to the police, Sahara Reporters has learnt. George Spiff was pressured to do so following a public outcry after the publication of his actions on Sahara Reporters and other websites. He is now cooperating with police in investigating the circumstances that led to his wife’s death.
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