Domestic Violence: Man Strangles Wife As Woman Stabs Husband

CYRIACUS IZUEKWE

The rate of domestic violence in various homes and other related crimes appears to get worse by the day to the extent that hardly a day passes without an incidence of violence either between husband and wife or among people in the same neighbourhood.

P.M.EXPRESS reports that a middle-aged man, identified as Gbenro, reportedly strangled his wife, Wayeṣọla, to death over undisclosed quarrel in their home.

The incident happened at Salvation Army Street, Odojọmu, Ondo City, between 5-6 am but it leaked as a five-year old daughter of the deceased, Fayọkẹ, witnessed how her mother was murdered in cold blood.

The little girl said that she saw her father on the bed turning her mom’s neck when she was going to the toilet that morning.She added that her father threatened to kill her when she made an attempt to run outside to seek the help of their neighbours.The girl said she later saw her mom’s lifelessly body beside her father on the bed while he covered her with clothes.

Spokesperson of the State Police Command, Tee- Leo Ikoro, said the suspect had been transferred to the State SCIID for further investigation.

While that was trending on the social media, another tragedy took place in Lagos State after a 28-year-old woman, Justina Eje,  allegedly stabbed her husband to death in the Ikorodu area of the state.
Also, a female driver, Anita Harrison, who reportedly knocked down a pedestrian to death in Ikeja and dumped her body in the bush, has been arrested by the Police.

The duo were among the suspected criminals paraded on Monday by the State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, at the Command Headquarters in Ikeja.

Eje, while speaking with journalists during the parade, admitted to have killed her husband but insisted that it was in self-defence.The woman, who claimed to have been separated from the father of her three children, also claimed that the husband came to where she had relocated to when the incident happened.

She said: “On that fateful day, my late husband, Edwin Anduaka, came to my house in Ikorodu and said he wanted to collect a jewellery and a cloth from me after I had packed out of his house”.

“After I had given him those things he requested for, he insisted that there was still a problem but I was not prepared for the problem and managed to calm him down.”

“He left and later returned to my kiosk, where I was selling boiled noodles and fried egg and asked for our children clothes. I pleaded with him that the children had gone to school.”

“I was preparing food for one of my customers and I was holding a knife because I told him to wait till when the children would come back from school before he started beating me.We started fighting and the knife pierced him on the stomach. He fell to the ground and was rushed to the hospital, where he died.

Harrison, a woman driver, who was said to have dumped the body of a woman, whom she knocked down to death with her car into the bush, blamed the incident on her other companion in the vehicle, on the day of the incident.

She said that the woman advised her to dump the body in the bush when doctors at a private hospital, where the woman was rushed to confirmed her dead.

Harrison narrated: “I was going to a function when I mistakenly hit a woman with my car, and I immediately took her to a private hospital in the area where she was confirmed dead by the Medical Director of the hospital”.

“I was contemplating on what to do and whether to take her to the mortuary and a woman, who was with me in the car advised me to dump the body in the bush and run away.”

She also added that “When I asked the woman where to take her to, it was her who told me to dump her along Lagos Ibadan Expressway”.

“I eventually dumped her in a bush in the area and went back home. While at home, I couldn’t sleep throughout the night until the following day when Policemen came to arrest me and I was taken to the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), Panti, Yaba, for interrogation.