Where is Mrs Bukola Olowookere, the bank worker, who has not been seen since she was allegedly dropped off close to her home last Thursday night by some colleagues?.
This is the puzzle the police are trying to unravel in a bid to end the mystery over her disappearance.
The police have interrogated the colleagues, who dropped her at Canoe Bus stop in Oke-Afa, Isolo, Lagos, around 8.30pm of that fateful day.
The 33-year-old Mrs Olowookere and her three colleagues in the car work at Ecobank. She works at the Bourdillon, Ikoyi branch of the bank.
With her were Bayo Ogunrinyo, Henry Ejimofo, who are in her branch, and Itar Mukhtar, a senior colleague from another branch, who drove the car.
Ogunrinyo was said to have alighted at Oshodi; Mrs Olowookere dropped at Canoe Bus stop; the others, who live in Ikotun, drove on.
Mrs Olowookere’s elder brother Mr Seyi Ogundolie said the police have quizzed her colleagues.
Ogundolie said he learnt about his sister’s fate late in the night of last Thursday.
“We initially reported the matter to Ejigbo Police Station but since we needed them to move fast on it, we were transferred from Ejigbo to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) Ikeja headquarters.
“They are doing their investigations. They have called her colleagues for questioning – those that claimed to have dropped her off. So, we are waiting for further update from them,” he said.
Ogundolie, who hails from Ondo State, said he spoke with his sister last Wednesday.
Their discussion, he said, bordered on changing the lesson teacher of her four-year-old son, who the school bus usually drops at the Ogundolies home in Jakande Estate after closing.
He said: “Our conversation was less than three minutes. My wife called me because her son stays at our place till evening. The school bus drops him at our place in Jakande Estate and his father picks him up in the evening between 6:30 and 7:30 because he gets home earlier than his wife. Prior to this time, her son used to have a female teacher and I think the female teacher left the school, so she found her son a male teacher. When my wife told me, I told her (Mrs Olowookere) I cannot entertain a male teacher because I have two daughters and two other girls living with me and we cannot always be at home because a male teacher wants to come around.
With the female teacher, our doors are always opened. That was what I told her that day and she said she would do something about it. She did not sound troubled throughout our conversation.”
He described his sister’s disappearance as disturbing, adding: “The first question I asked her husband is if he did not quarrel with his wife and maybe she went to our parents’ house. But it was so late in the night when I got the call. When I asked him if they quarrelled and he said no. I spoke with their pastor in the morning and he said their relationship is better than it used to be that they don’t suspect that there was a quarrel. We went as far as going to my parents’ house early the next morning. She wasn’t there when I went there as early as 6am and as at then, we have not had any clear picture of what happened to her the night before until much more later when we got the phone numbers of those she was in the vehicle with.
“She works with Bourdillon branch of the bank. They were four people in the vehicle including her. She was the only female. According to what I was told, I cannot say she was the one that was dropped off last but she was the only one that was dropped off that nobody can attest to the fact that she was dropped aside the other two guys in the car because one of the colleagues alighted at Oshodi and he is the one that usually brings her home anytime she misses the staff bus.
He drops her at Cele bus stop because she lives at Okota. He (Ogunrinyo) was the one that told us that as at when he was alighting at Oshodi, Bukola was still in the vehicle and the other colleague (Ejimofo) who was in the car aside the driver (Mukhtar) also confirmed that he was dropped at Oshodi and that they were the ones that dropped Bukola at Canoe bus stop. That is as far as we know. The other two guys were heading to Ikotun because we were told that they live in Ikotun.”
*This is shocking.How can this woman just disappear.?who picked her phone when it was called two days ago?I was told that someone picked up her phone but did not say anything and i advised that they get a police report and go to her service provider to see where the call was picked from..This woman cannot stay away so long without making contact,at least for the sake of her son.
What could have happened to her between where she was allegedly dropped and her house?Who saw her alight from the car?Did she get home at all?
Today makes it a week,this woman cannot just vanish!
May she be found hale and hearty IJN
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The police should check if her husband is abusive and if her family are the "stay in marriage till you die " type of family...she just must have left to cotonou or somewhere to regain her freedom...
DeleteHmnnn. This is sickening. It will be stupid for the colleagues to do anything knowing fingers will be pointed at them. Mr husband. I hope you are not a smooth operator. Have they questioned her kids and sprayed LUMINOL in their house. Even if they use bleach to scrub the blood. It will glow like the sun. The sooner the better.
DeleteThey need someone apart from the husband to confirm if she got home or not
Don't trust her her colleagues @ anon.....
DeleteI pray she is safe wherever she is..
Did anyone read the part where the pastor said she and husband's relationship was better than before?that means they 've been having issues before then
Delete@abenaa of course she was in an abusive relationship but the Bukky I know will NEVER leave her son. IT'S NOT POSSIBLE
DeleteMy only problem is the continuous silence of the husband. Isn't he suppose to be the one doing what her brother is doing?? Why is he less conspicuous in the search? Little or nothing has been heard from him. Well, maybe I'm over reacting though
DeleteDear Lord pls let her be found.
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Maybe she entered a wrong connecting bus..
ReplyDeletelike after they dropped her the bus connecting her to her house might be a one chance who knows it might even be her husband.
Her dissapearance must have been after she was dropped off at her bus stop. How does she get home from that bus stop? If she normally takes a bus or taxi, it must have gone wrong from that point.
DeleteI pray she is not in the den of rutualists and she is found.
Ritualists
DeleteYes, I suspect it went wrong at the bus stop too. They should go and ask all those women that sell stuff by that bus stop at night o. They should quizz the layabouts who hustle around there. Those people know everything that happens daily, you'd be shocked.
DeleteThis is some serious ish
ReplyDeleteMay God help us all
With a female teacher your doors are always open? You're naive my brother. Dey dia make one aunty go dey suck your picking P.
Deletefemale teacher is preferable naa
DeleteThey have young girls.
That her colleagues should be questioned very well. There is something fishy there.
ReplyDeleteNothing fishy there is helping a colleague now a sin?
DeleteChidinma ur a very dull being,u knw hw lagos is with ritualist n one chance u Talkg abt her colleagues after she ws not d only one muktar lifted,dumb ass,may amadioha soda ur mouth der,olodo
DeleteThey should question those co-workers who saw her last thoroughly. I feel they know something. I smell fish!
ReplyDeleteWorld people, helping someone is now a crime
DeleteRichbee, yes her colleagues needs to be questioned.
DeleteEverybody is a suspect!
Why is this chap sounding as if the person who gave her a lift from work is the culprit. That's why I don't let people enter my car. Nigerians are ungrateful.
ReplyDeleteMy thought exactly. Chances are she was abducted after she was was dropped at d Bus stop. So sad, may our good Lord set you free from ur captors in Jesus name, Amen.
DeleteSame thing I noticed.
DeleteHmmmm,it's now a crime to assist sum1. Ppl wld start looking @ the 2 of them with side eyes. I feel dey hv also become victims.
DeleteMy tot exactly, same colleagues that have been dropping her off, have suddenly become victims.
DeleteAs it is they were the last people that saw her so they are suspects unless proven otherwise
DeleteEither the husband killed her or
ReplyDeleteshe quietly planned and left the man because he was abusive.
"Their relationship has been better" . That shows it was not always good.
KING XOXO MYSTERY
Show me 1 relationship that is always good, just 1. She wouldn't leave without her child, very unlikely. In between where she was dropped & her house, all sorts can happen. I recall the first day the story broke, few comments referred to the okada guys in that hood being notorious. Above all, I hope she returns alive & untouched.
DeleteI hope the police are not trying to pin her disapperance to her colleagues because these police dont know what is CID.
ReplyDeleteMost of the times, i dont like carrying colleagues when i close, so as to avoid stories that touched.
I pray that God brings her safely. I hope she is not dead.
Your second paragraph cracked me up.....kikkhohakekpitikokwa....laughing in croatia and dutch.
DeleteI am already scared of this story. Btw, have they quizzed her husband too? Do we know if she got home that night and then got into a fight with her husband? Has he killed her and dumped the body somewhere? Have they spoken to their neighbors to know if they heard any noise from their apartment?
ReplyDeleteGod, Pls let her be found in one piece.
Lord please let them find her,I pray they find her hale and hearty.
ReplyDeleteEverybody on dis blog now v a car and works in an office, pls who den comes to beg here, fake ass mofos!
ReplyDeleteGod pls bring her back in one piece.
I rem some weeks back @ night, a grown man on shirt @ dt canoe busstop, was telling me to hop on dat he would take me to my destination, from d look of dis minute u would know he isn't a bike ride, and bikes av bin banned around canoe to ajao estate, dis ws around 8:30pm - 9pm, dis man was forcing me to hop on his bike,i refused I told him I would follow Keke, wen he saw dat I still refused, and was making a scene, he started insulting me, calling me all sort of names aand he drove off with speed.
Because you beg on the blog and don't have a car don't mean others are suffering like you..
DeleteIn between those coming to beg and all, hope you know it's still angels that ay bless them. So those angels too don't have cars??
This is why I hate poor people. Always thinking everyone is suffering like them. Please get out. Try and make money to buy a car and stop begging..
I wonder what most of you beggars were doing before Stella blog started helping our
One week is too long,father Lord pls intervene and let her be found safe and quickly.
ReplyDeleteI pray she will be found in peace in Jesus name - amen.
ReplyDeleteSince they were 3 in that car, I can't say for sure they harmed her. One person I am not so sure.
ReplyDeleteStella let me tell you something so many things happen in work places you won't believe. I have been raped before by a colleague I thought was my friend. Till today I can't believe it actually happened but I refuse to be a victim. If not that I agreed to all he said that I will start a relationship with him, I wld have been dead. I just kept saying yes to all he said.
I knew this guy even before I joined the company, I know him from home. He is an in laws friend. I was single back then. I suspected he liked me but I never entertained such. People even called me Margaret Thatcher at work. Then we are not even in same level, I was dating a very rich guy based abroad, my husband now. Who changed my car regularly, also got a nice apartment for me. So the guy knew I was out of his league. It was pure friendship, so I thot, we wld go for lunch together etc but never called or even saw him outside work. I wld smtimes catch him looking at me lustfully, but didn't take it as nothin.
He was getting married, so he told me he needed my help in choosing fabric, colors etc. As a friend I followed him home dat evening ard 6.30, that he will drop me back at work 7.30. He lived near work. Na so I follow am.
As soon as I got in, his uncle was even home so I felt safe. But soon as I came in, d so called uncle left. He shut door with force and looked it, descended on me and told me to remove my clothes. I was shocked, he started shouting dat if I don't he will show me. I still cldnt move. He pushed me against d chair, pulled my skirt and went on to rape me, all dis time I was crying and screaming. generator noise no one cld hear me. They started holding my mouth telling me to keep quiet and holding my neck down dat he will harm me. Stella his face and eyes were red like a monster. And I knew if I didn't shut up he will strangle me. He now started telling me why am I just laying like a log of wood, that he loves me, he has always loved me, he wants us to start a relationship, he will do anythn for me, I shld dump my fiancé, just all sorts of sick things. I just kept saying YES YES. So he won't kill me. We drove back to my car. All along he kept saying he is sorry, he just wanted me to much. That now are we dating? Can we see tomorrow, can I spend wkend. I said yes, so dis monster won't kill me. That anger I so in him, he wld have killed me and nobody knew were I was. Ppl didn't even know we left together. I just kept begging he shld wear a condom atleast.
Immediately he dropped me I drove to my parents house like a maniac told my mum, my dad lives outside the state. The first thing we did was call the guy, my mum blasted him dat we will get him arrested. We found his parents no, called them. I reported to HR at work and police station. His mother came 2days after started rolling on d floor and begging. That his wedding is in 1mth. He was locked up for a while, but I didn't want d case to go further. Didn't want my name out there. Told d family d only way I will forget dis is if he resigns and he did,bastard of a guy. since then I don't keep male friends. You will never hear me say I am going to a guys house never ever, except my fiancé.
Iv been pretty normal since it happened 4yrs ago. Married and relocated abroad and I never told my husband. I refuse to be a victim.
Anything could have happened to dis lady. Ladies don't put anythn past a male colleague or a friend. Especially if you suspect they like you. Pls don't accept lift from them. Or let dem say let's go to my house I forgot something. Plenty animals in human clothes.
Pls I am not saying this is this ladies fate, she will be found In Jesus name. I just want to share my experience that some colleague can be on suit and you don't know they are animal in human form.
Wow. Sooo sorry about what you went through. I can just imagine the fear. You are a brave lady.
DeleteWow! Things are happening o. Sorry about your experience and thank God you have moved on.
DeleteI pray this woman is found safe and sound in Jesus name. Amen.
So sorry dear
DeleteYou could have locked him up 4 life.
@ annon,re u dumb these re 2 diff scenarios,were u told dat d lady ws evn d last drop?we're u told d madam followed d man to his house, pls carry ur boring gist away,u were just a weak woman dat cudnt decern,hw cud u follow him to his house I ws evn thinking u were goin to say I followed him to d mkt,ws his house d mkt or shop?ur not smart at all,in ur nxt life u ll learn.guess u were evn lustg after d guy.
DeleteEeeya...so sorry dear.Chai.I can imagine how hurt and betrayed u must have felt.
DeleteThank God it passed and u came out a Winner.
Idiot! Did his marriage go on as planned?wonder if d wife-to-be knew.
God, take the lead
ReplyDeleteWhat is happening in dis our country Nigeria Biko?
ReplyDeleteOne would just think someone is watching Crime and a Investigation Channel. What is happening for Christ sake.
If the neighbours can testify she never got got home that nite, security guard didn't see her and dat means she never got home. Automatically clears the husband.
Cld be she entered 1chance or wrong okada driver kidnapped her along the way. They shld also check properly the last colleague she was in the car with.
I pray she's found alive. No mother will just disappear and leave her son behind like that.
Father pls grant her safe return the in Jesus Name.
ReplyDeleteAnon 10:44 stop validating yourself with that eh. It wont help you. Nobody told you to remain poor or cannot buy a bicycle. stop crying and tell God to give you one omolanke if you need.
ReplyDeletebush man. Go and do small ashewo or go join kidnappers
That canoe bus stop! Smh. Taking a bike from that place after 7pm, is at your own risk o. Police should do a raid on those okada riders biko
ReplyDeleteI tell u dat place is a spoil spot?very dangerous bustop oh
DeleteDo we have private investigators in Nigeria that can help out on such matters?
ReplyDeletere u frm togo?????
DeleteThe fear I have each time I remember the evil happening these days.Jesus ,pls keep us safe always.
ReplyDeleteI could recall vividly that first day this news broke, someone commented about a truck with container crashing into some people and crushing them at the bus stop around oshodi or there about, I think the guys looking for this missing lady should inquire about that accident to narrow their search.
ReplyDeleteI pray death won't be her portion in Jesus name.
I have a problem with where she was dropped because if her brother is saying she stays at okota,I wonder why she dropped at canoe,people familiar with that route should know that dropping at oshodi to pick a bus to Cele or even dropping at ajao estate gate to pick a bus going to cele is even a better option when going to okota than going to drop at canoe,except she wasn't going home straight or she had something to do in that area before heading home. At the initial story I read,it was written that a call was placed to her husband that she was 10mins away from home,also anyone who is familiar with that route knows it takes more than that to get to okota from canoe,am not saying u can not use d canoe route to get to okota,all am saying is that for a car coming from oshodi at that time of the night,canoe isnt the best route to okota
ReplyDeleteThe brother was probably misquoted. She stays few mins from canoe busstop.
Delete14:32you are a dumb arse and a proper idiot....go back to school and learn how to read.
ReplyDeleteWhy do women stay in abusive relationships, / marriages, na wah oh, @ relationship is better, I smell a big fat rat, Mr husband kilode. What did you do to her, these days men are unsecured mostly when their wives works with guys,
ReplyDeleteHMMN...Ont thing I got from this tho: Pastor said their relationship is better than before.....Itumo?? Meaning?? Mr Olowokeere, I hope you dont have a hand in this? I pray this lady is found soon and alive IJN.
ReplyDeleteHer colleagues were only trying to help so they shouldn't be crucified for it. Interrogating them is expected but the husband should be interrogated as well cos they were obviously having issues. Right now, the only person who says she never got home is her hubby so how do we know this is true.
ReplyDeleteIt also appears as though her family cannot stand up to her hubby, her brother has said that he even had to reconfirm from her pastor that they didn't have a "quarrel" before the incident occurred. Mr ogundolie, this clearly shows that you do not trust your brother in -law. I suggest you ask him what he did to your sister rather than push the blame on her colleagues.
My prayer is the the truth will be exposed ASAP
i pray she is not in the hands of ritualist, wherever she is, may the good Lord bring her back safely that was how a friend's brother in law disappered and up toll today, he has not been found he too was dropped off at Mushin when he went for a family naming ceremony to take a connecting bus to his house has been a mystery up till now. Dead or alive, only God knows
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