Wife Commits Su*cide Inside Matrimonial Home, Husband Arrested

CHUKA UBAH

Police operatives from the Homicide Department have arrested a man, John Ojinnnaka, over the death of his wife, Calista, after he reported to the Police that his wife committed suicide inside their matrimonial home in Onitsha, Anambra State.

P.M.EXPRESS reports that the housewife Mrs. Calista Ojinnaka, was confirmed dead after she was found hanging on a loose rope tied to the ceiling fan inside their apartment at No. 2, Uzodinma Street, Fegge, Onitsha, Anambra State.

Her husband, Mr. John Ojinnaka, told the Police that he was shocked to find his wife dangling on a rope when he returned from shopping that fateful Sunday morning when he went out to buy some items and blamed her alleged suicide on a spiritual problem.

“I woke up this morning in our two-room apartment, where I was with my wife and both of us discussed on how to buy things to eat. Already, my wife had some spiritual issues for some time now.”

“So, I went out to buy the things we’ll eat but on coming back the same morning, I went straight to the room and discovered the lifeless body of my wife hanging on a ceiling fan inside our room,” he claimed.

However, some concerned residents suspected foul play in her death, saying that the mother of three children could not have possibly hanged herself on a low rope.

“It is not true that the woman committed suicide. Her husband should tell the world how she was murdered because if you look at the corpse from the rope that was tied from her neck to the ceiling fan, you’ll find that the rope was loose, not tight.”
 “The corpse was also supposed to be dangling in the air, the stool kicked away with her legs if she had committed the suicide and her tongue conspicuously seen outside from her mouth,” argued a neighbour, who spoke under anonymity.

Another resident, who identified herself as Mrs. Ochonga, agreed that there was more to Mrs. Ojinnaka’s death than what the husband was telling the world.

“This is a clear case of murder; the husband must be held responsible for the murder until proved otherwise, since elements of suicide could not be established when you look at the corpse.
She was just murdered and they tied the rope to her neck and connected it to the ceiling fan. They could not lift the corpse to dangle in order to assist them cover up their crime”.

A co-tenant also dismissed claims by the husband saying;
“The husband is funny to claim that he went to the street to buy what the family would eat that Sunday morning, and on return just few minutes later he saw the corpse of his wife hanging on the ceiling fan and not dangling”.
“There is the possibility that if the wife is spiritually tormented as the man claimed, the wife has become a problem, and as such needed to be dealt with as her case has unsettled the man and family with no hope of rest of mind.”
“The claim by the husband that occasionally she was being spiritually tormented is unverifiable because, we have not, for one day, seen her behaving abnormally”.

However,  Mr Ojinnaka has lodged an official complaint at Fegge Police station and was subsequently detained and the Divisional Crime Officer (DCO 1) later visited the scene and took the corpse to Toronto Hospital mortuary, Upper Iweka axis, where it was deposited.
Police sources said that investigations have commenced to unravel the circumstances which led to the death of Mrs. Calista Ojinnaka, who was said to have died in a suspicious manner.