Emotions ran high on Saturday as the late Lecturer of the Federal University of Technology (FUT) Minna, Dr. Mrs Fumilola Adefolalu who was murdered at her Gbaiko residence of Bosso suburb of Minna, the Niger State capital was buried.
The late Dr. Mrs. Funmilola Adefolalu, was murdered at her residence in Gbaiko, a suburb of Minna three weeks ago by her assaillants.
One week after her murder, the Niger Police Command swiftly apprehended a 14 years Joy Afekafe ‘of Gbeganu, community in Minna, the state capital as a prime suspect over the gruesome murder of the lecturer.
The police in a statement by the Public Relations Officer, DSP Wasiu Abiodun said that the 14 years old prime suspect was a former housemaid of the deceased.
The suspect, according to Wasiu, served as her housemaid for three weeks but later parted ways before her assassination.
According to the police, after she was laid off, the suspect met her classmates called Walex and Smart and narrated her ordeal with her late boss to them and conspired to attack the lecturer at her residence.
However hundreds of sympathisers who trooped out on Saturday to pay their last respect to the late Lecturer could not hold back their tears as her body was laid to rest.
Her colleagues, lecturers, family members, friends and students, gathered at the Voice of Mercy Ministry, Minna for the funeral service where they extolled the virtues of the late Dr. Funmilola Adefolalu.
The atmosphere in the church became charged when the Head of her Department told the congregation that the late Lecturer was sent a letter asking her to submit her credentials for promotion to Professorship three days before her unfortunate death.
The HOD said that she had left a big shoe in the Department of Biochemistry in the university saying that the department lost a dedicated and hardworking colleague.
He described her as honest, faithful and one with high principles.
Her Son-in-law, Adegboyega Odogiyon who spoke on behalf of the family said they would miss a lot about the deceased, saying that her walk with God would continue to challenge them in their Christian race.
“Boisterous, unrelenting, steadfast in the work of God was her disposition to the things of God. In spite of the dreadful passing away, our one consolation is that mummy is resting in the bosom of the Lord,” he said.