By Bebia Godwin
No one should blame me at this point. It's my opinion and I've always loved investigating issues from my primary school days so this one catches me. And I think the Nigerian police was too quick to draw a conclusion and confirm that Sommie jumped from her third floor apartment and died. It might be true and it may not, only a thorough investigation can prove what actually happened. Even if there's an eyewitness who can prove she was seen to have jumped from her apartment, only a thorough investigation can reveal the truth about what happened.
The official finding of suicide is premature and is contradicted by several key logistical and behavioral inconsistencies. I can argue this could be a hypothesis of homicide staged as a suicide during a conveniently timed robbery so to prove me wrong it must be actively investigated. The core question is not just how she died, but why she was the only one who jumped, and whether the "robbery" was a cause of her actions or a cover for them.
We must establish a definitive, minute-by-minute timeline linking the robbery and the jump. How has investigation proved the jump occurred during the commotion of the robbery?
What was the state of the victim's apartment door when first responders arrived? If the door was locked from the inside, it severely undermines the narrative that intruders forced her to jump. Conversely, if it showed signs of forced entry, that supports the panic theory. This is a foundational piece of evidence.
Again I worry, why was Sommie the only resident to jump from the building? This is the central anomaly. If the threat was a robbery in a neighboring apartment, the immediate danger to her personally is less clear. It prompts the question: was the threat inside her own apartment?
The witness account of her jumping alone does not rule out coercion. A credible scenario is that an assailant was inside her apartment, armed, and forced her to jump to make her death look like a panic-induced suicide, thereby eliminating direct evidence of murder. Even if discovered that her apartment was locked as at when the first responders arrived, we know that some assassins can neatly open a door and get into an apartment.
From what I've heard about her, the victim is described as intelligent. An intelligent individual in a state of panic is more likely to hide, lock themselves in a bathroom, call for help, or attempt to negotiate rather than choose almost certain death from a third-floor fall. This action is an extreme outlier that requires extreme justification. We must determine if the perceived threat (a robbery next door) rationally warrants such a final, desperate act. The evidence currently does not support that conclusion.
The robbery provides a plausible, public reason for a panic-driven suicide. This makes it a perfect backdrop for a staged murder. We must investigate the robbery with the seriousness that it could be a calculated part of a homicide plot. Have the "robbers" been identified or apprehended? 14 of them I heard and a confirmation of panic-suicide has been made instead of in estimating to find forensic evidence to apprehend the "robbers. Investigators should first look for any forensic evidence (witness descriptions, stolen items, methods of operation) that can be linked back to individuals who might have a motive to target Sommie.
My conclusion is that the suicide ruling is based on a superficial reading of events. The evidence does not add up to a clear and convincing narrative. To proceed, we must formally reclassify the case. It should be treated as a potential homicide until proven otherwise.
If the police have spoken to witnesses whose testimonies led to their abrupt confirmation of a panic-suicide, they must be questioned again to establish the exact timing relative to the robbery sounds and whether the victim appeared to be alone or under duress in the window.
The intelligence of the victim is not a minor detail; it is a core component of the case. An intelligent woman does not, without direct and immediate lethal threat to her person, choose to jump from a third-floor window because of a robbery in a neighboring apartment. The evidence suggests we are not looking for a random act of crime, but a potentially targeted one.
By Bebia Godwin
