Sunday Trust reports
Suspected to have had an affair with lawmaker before his
demise.
House declines comment on Tragedy.
A member of the House of Representatives from Ondo
State died in the early hours of yesterday after what
security sources said was a sexual affair with a female
banker in his private residence located at Gwarinpa Estate
in Abuja.
Rep. Raphael Oloye Nomiye, who was 50 years old, was
until his death representing Ondo, Ilaje, Ese Odo in Ondo
State under the platform of the Labour Party.
The lawmaker was said to have died shortly after an affair
with the banker (names withheld).
The spokesperson of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT)
police command, Hyelhira Altine Daniel, confirmed the
incident, saying the command was still investigating the
cause of the legislator’s death.
When Sunday Trust visited the deceased’s residence at
Second Avenue in Gwarinpa Estate, neighbours and
witnesses said the banker, who managed his accounts,
was said to have rushed down for the one-storey building
to inform the policemen on guard at the house that “oga
just fell down and is vomiting blood.”
They said when the policemen entered into his room
upstairs, they found him laying on the floor with a towel
tied round his waist, while he bled from the mouth. He
was then quickly taken to a private clinic on 3rd Avenue
within the estate in his official Toyota Camry 2012 car
with Registration Number 148B Rep.
It was further learnt that doctors at clinic declined to
attend to him, saying it was a “serious” matter, following
which he was then rushed to the National Hospital, Abuja,
where he was later pronounced dead.
Police sources disclosed that the banker, who is now in
police custody at the Gwarinpa Police Division, had earlier
denied having sexual affair with the lawmaker before his
death. But she was said to have changed her statement
after doctors at the National Hospital conducted an
examination on corpse, which confirmed that the deceased
had slept with a woman shortly before his demise.
The sources said after the test, the banker admitted to
interrogators that she had actually slept with the deceased
and had helped him to clean up, following which he went
into the bathroom, where he suddenly fell and began to
vomit blood. Police investigators who inspected the
lawmaker’s house had succeeded in recovering some
items, including a bottle of water, which the deceased
lawmaker had drank from some tissue papers and the
clothes the deceased had worn earlier in the day, Sunday
Trust gathered.
When our reporters visited the banker’s private residence
located at Kado Estate in Abuja, two of her professional
friends, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said
the banker and Raphael had been friends. They, however,
denied knowledge of the lawmaker’s death.
An investigation by Sunday Trust also revealed that
although the late lawmaker was married, his wife and
children were not living with him in Abuja.
As at press time, there was no official statement from his
family or the House, but a lawmaker in the Lower
Chamber confirmed the lawmaker’s demise. He added,
however, that the House would make an official statement
until it received formal notification from Nomiye’s family.
“I heard of his death, but we’re yet to get any official
statement from his family or any doctor. The House will
make an official statement when it eventually receives
confirmation from his family,” said the source.
When contacted, the Deputy Chairman of the House of
Representatives Committee on Media and Publicity, Victor
Ogene, said he was yet to get an official confirmation of
the death and, as such, wouldn’t comment on it.
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