Date: 2019-04-16

A mysterious snake has bitten a 49- year- old school teacher and mother of three, Mrs Mary Olubunmi Omoloye to death in her Sango area residence of Ilorin, Kwara state.

Mrs Omoloye (a.k.a) Iya Success, was reportedly killed from the venom of a snake that attacked her in her apartment's toilet.

The deceased, whose corpse has reportedly been buried at the weekend was a Christian Religion Studies teacher at Government Day Secondary School, Kulende, Ilorin.

Sources close to the deceased said that Mrs Omoloye "after taking her bath entered her room to dress up, but was pressed and entered her toilet which according to the source, is water system to answer nature's call.

"She then went back to the toilet to excrete, after passing the excreta, she flushed the water closet. As she was about leaving the toilet, she saw a big snake in the toilet and was shocked.

"She ran out of the toilet, went to her room, pick her mobile phone and called her husband (a pastor) who was in the neighbourhood to come and rescue the situation.

"Unknown to late Olubunmi, the poisonous snake had bitten her but she was not feeling any pain before the arrival of her spouse.

"When the husband later came, they searched everywhere they could not see the snake. 'At that moment, she started feeling some strange pains in her body and complained to her husband about her body reaction.

"The husband then rushed her to a nearby hospital (name withheld), on getting there, the Doctor discovered the deceased had been bitten by the snake.

"The medical personnel in the hospital searched their store, looking for snake bite injection to save the life of dying Mrs Omoloye, but could not find any anti snake injection in their store," he said.

"The hospital management however advised that the woman should be taken to another hospital, precisely a government hospital for treatment.

"Immediately she was taken away in a private car, but gave up the ghost even before reaching another hospital."

Reacting to the incident, the Principal of Government Day Secondary School, Sango, where the late teacher worked, Alhaji Abdulrahman Sulaiman described his late staff as very dedicated and hardworking.

Abdurahman said the news of Mrs Omoleye came as a rude shock to him and other staff of the school because the deceased was one of the senior staff of the college that "always offered good advice."

He said the deceased was the Chairperson of the 2019 Social Committee recently inaugurated by the school authority because of her steadfastness and her commitment to service.

He added that the deceased would always be remembered for her ‘‘service to God and humanity."