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  • Husband ‘kills’ wife’s suspected lover

    The police in Ogun State have arrested 25-year-old Ajibade Olumuyiwa for allegedly killing his wife’s suspected lover, Olakiitan Balogun, a cobbler.

    Olumuyiwa was arrested on March 17, at about 1:45am at Doland Estate, Ajuwon.

    He was alleged to have murdered the deceased inside his house at Doland Estate, which attracted the attention of neighbours.

    Olumuyiwa was said to have stormed the house around 12:30am following information from his gateman that another man was in the house with his wife.

    It was gathered that the suspect had abandoned his house for about eight months and was paying the gateman to spy on his wife, whom he usually accused of infidelity.

    But the woman, Titilayo Olayiwola, denied that Balogun was her lover, claiming that he had come to the house with his own lover so they could have privacy.

    She told the police that her estranged husband descended on Balogun without listening to explanations from her or the man’s girlfriend, who was also on the premises.

    Spokesman Abimbola Oyeyemi said a Deputy Superintendent (DSP), Ajuwon Divisional Officer (DPO), CSP Afolabi Kazeem, led detectives to the neighbourhood and arrested the suspect.

    “On interrogation, he explained that he came to his house at about 12:30am on the fateful day and met the deceased inside the house with his wife. This, he said, infuriated him and he beat up the man and hit his head against the wall, resulting in his death.

    “The woman denied having an affair with the deceased. She said the suspect had abandoned her in the house for the past eight months with an instruction to the gateman to monitor her and give him information if he saw her with any man.

    “She stated further that the victim was a cobbler living in the area and on that day, the deceased’s girlfriend came to visit him and since he was not living alone, he decided to bring the girl to a room in the house due to his closeness to the family.

    “As soon as the gateman saw him, he alerted her husband, who rushed to the house and descended heavily on the deceased without listening to any explanation from her or the girlfriend to the victim,” said Oyeyemi.

    He said the body has been deposited in a mortuary, adding that Police Commissioner Ahmed Illiyasu has directed the transfer of the case to the Homicide Section, State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (SCIID), for discreet investigation and prosecution.

  • Woman demands justice over slain husband, daughter

    A middle aged woman, Mrs Kabirat Ajayi, a trader, has cried out for justice over the gruesome murder of her husband, Segun Ajayi and one of her children.

    Kabirat, a mother of three, made the demand in a petition she sent to some human rights activists and orgnaisations.

    Speaking with reporters in Lagos, the distraught widow, explained that her husband, a customs officer, was killed by suspected hired assassins, who also terminated the life of her nine- year- old daughter, Tomisin.

    Kabirat explained that the trouble which culminated in the murder of her husband and daughter, started on September 21 this year, after her husband led a team that intercepted a lorry loaded with contraband worth millions of naira at the border area of Badagry, Lagos    State, and also arrested the owner of the goods, whom she described as a notorious smuggler.

    “Three days after the arrest, an order came from my husband’s office’s headquarters in Abuja, asking him to release the suspect and the impounded vehicle, an order which my husband ignored in a bid to ensure that the suspect was prosecuted.’’

    She explained that her husband was subsequently summoned to Abuja, following his refusal to cooperate with the directive earlier given to him.

    “What baffled me was that before my husband came back from Abuja, four days after, the suspect and the vehicle had been released”

    Kabirat said that anonymous persons made constant threat calls to her husband, warning him that his life and that of his family members were in danger.

    She explained further that security agencies were informed about the anonymous threat calls and strange movement around their house in Isolo area of Lagos state.

    “The next thing we saw was the visit to our own house, sometimes in September by three men, armed with guns. They forcibly gained entrance into our apartment; I quickly hid myself in the kitchen as the assailants shouted where is Segun.? The next thing I heard were sporadic gunshots. Few minutes later, I came out and saw my husband and daughter, Tomisin in a pool of their own blood.”

  • An in-law once told me to release my husband

    OUTSIDE the hullabaloo of politics, it was the biggest news of the day: ‘Nigerian woman has first child at 67’, screamed The Nation.

    The story chronicled how Ajibola Otubusin, a 67-year-old retired matron and wife of Professor Samuel Olu Otubusin, a researcher with Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta (FUNAAB), got delivered of a baby boy at  Atoke Medical Centre, Abeokuta, Ogun State. To say the least, it was one cheery news after Nigerians had, for weeks, been inundated with news of selfish political struggles and shenanigans.

    Within a few hours, the news had gone on air and several other media, local and international, were agog with news of the miracle baby. Surely, this was the biblical Sarah of our time, or perhaps Elizabeth; only that this was coming 2,018 years after Jesus Christ and 1,440 after Prophet Muhammed (Peace be Upon him).

    Even Governor Ibikunle Amosun, the action governor of Ogun State, reputed for his tall caps, shoved aside all activities on his very busy schedule, pretty much like the biblical three wise men, and went to pay homage to the miracle of our time.

    Although Ajibola’s son came via Assisted Reproductive Technique, In-Vitro fertilization, IVF, it nevertheless stands out, as she may (arguably) be the oldest Nigerian to have been so favoured.

    Indian woman, Daljinder Kaur, who gave birth at 72,  also through IVF, is thought to be the oldest mother in the world.

    Like most IVFs, Ajibola’s son came after several attempts in specialist hospitals in India and Nigeria, before she decided to try St Ives Fertility Centre, Lagos, where her efforts finally paid off.

    Joy incomparable

    Asked to capture the joy of having a baby after 39 years of trying, Mrs. Ajibola Otubusin, shifted, lifted herself up a bit from her lying position, smiled that smile of contentment, and asked, “Is there any word to capture the feeling? Is it really possible to capture it? It is joy incomparable, it is joy immeasurable, because it cannot be measured.”

    Following the Caesarian Section that delivered her of her son four days earlier, Ajibola was deservedly taking a nap, when this reporter visited last Thursday. She was thus unwilling to grant any more interviews, having received the governor and his retinue of media men and officials a day earlier. But having been persuaded by her doctor, Dr Taofeek Ogunfunmilayo, who is also the Chief Medical Director of the hospital, Ajibola came alive, her voice, sharp, her diction, clear and full of strength. Indeed, she turned out an interviewer’s delight, as she lay on her back. Due to some good fortune, the location of the hospital, deep inside Sam Ewang Estate Extension off Surulere Road, Abeokuta, also ensured that curious and unwanted visitors, save some journalists and close relatives, got close to her.

    But before the conversation progressed proper, she corrected that the wait took 40 years, and not 39, having been married since 1978. She also sounded a subtle warning about her last name, Otubusin, which she said pained her for being wrongly spelt, even by the state-owned television, NTA (Nigeria Television Authority).

    On how she coped for a whopping four decades, Ajibola said, it was faith and strength in God, especially because she was also, concurrently battling about four personal health issues, including pelvic inflammatory disease, which took her as far as India. Some doctors even told her to forget about childbearing.

    Of course, there were the usual challenges of pressure from several quarters, and taunting from even those, who ordinarily shouldn’t be bothered.

    “You are asking about pressure? Well that is natural with families in this part of the world, and I got more than my fair share. Once, an in-law called me and told me, why not you go and loosen your husband from where you tied him?

    “That got to me of course, but I remember asking that person to please decode what she meant. At that point, she retreated, seeing that I wasn’t to be cowed.

    “At work, I’d be going and I would overhear some of the junior nurses whispering, ‘Do you know that our matron is barren? …does not have a child?’ But on such occasions, I’d stop, turn and reply them that it is God that gives children. I’d tell them that the same God that gave you your own child is still on his throne. He has not forgotten me and will give me mine at His time.

    “Some even hung the threat of my husband remarrying in the air. But I always tell them that I was not holding him and that he was free to take whatever decision he deemed fit for himself. Is it me who was constantly battling health issues and wasn’t even sure I would survive that would be worrying about husband taking another wife? If God ordained it and my husband indeed wanted to take another wife, even ten of them, he had access to them at FUNAAB, where he worked. And God knows, I’ve never been anywhere except His presence.

    “So my husband got many such invitations, but he would always say the Lord had spoken to him and he would be patient.”

    Pain of being called a witch

    Of all the names and labels thrown at her, Ajibola said it was that of ‘witch’ that pained her the most.

    “That one really got to me. It really pained. Everywhere, witch, witch, witch, as if it was possible for me not to know myself. Once, someone said we prayed for her and others; how come God answered the prayers of others and not hers? It got to a level that I went to a senior CAC (Christ Apostolic Church) cleric  and said to him, ‘Help check me, Am I a witch? And if it is indeed witchcraft that is my problem, help me expunge it.’

    “But the man looked at me and said those were words of people who were spiritually blind. He said I shouldn’t mind them. He also prayed with me for seven days and then told me ‘Woman, there is no witchcraft in you, neither is there any sign of such, so forget about it. Thankfully, my God has silenced them all now,” she ended with a smile.

    Did she ever have to go extra miles in search of a baby – such as visiting spiritualists and other unorthodox methods?

    To this, she said, “Never! I had seen the kind of children such moves produce and I just wasn’t ready for any such eventualities. Besides, my faith in the Almighty was unshaken. I’d also made a vow to return to my maker the way He made me, rather than seek children of any kind from any ungodly means.”

    But was she ever pregnant in all of those 40 years?

    “Yes,” she said matter-of-factly. “I was pregnant once in the early years of our marriage, but lost it. That loss saddened my husband, both of us, so much, because we always thought that if that child had come, we wouldn’t have been so pained and desperate – because, a child is a child.”

    But the desperation never pushed them into doing anything ungodly.

    Was she at anytime fed up with life? “No” she said, because according to her, “There is nothing wrong with the world. Everything has its time and purpose.”

    When asked when she eventually decided on IVF and if it was the first that produced the baby?

    Her reply was, “Oh we had several.” It was always expensive, she admitted, but they kept trying, in India, and then this year in Nigeria, at St Ive’s Fertility Centre, and entered the miracle baby.

    Asked if she was apprehensive as the delivery date approached? Ajibola said ‘Naturally.”

    As a human being, she said she was troubled. One thing is to achieve pregnancy, but delivering is another thing entirely. And then she had a date for CS, which was fast approaching. “So I told God, you have to take control o, because I react to drugs a lot. The anxiety heightened to the extent that I could be discussing or chatting with somebody, and then I would be lost in thought, and then it would dawn on such person that I wasn’t there with them anymore. What made it more difficult for me was that God did not talk to me. He just told me ‘I will help you. I have promised you that, and now that we’ve gotten to this stage, I will not leave you not forsake you.’ Those were the words that consoled me and gave me strength,” she said.

    And then it was time to pose for a brief photo session, and she seemed suddenly reinvigorated. Even though the new mother was beginning to complain over this journalist’s unending questions, she wouldn’t be photographed in her reclining position and said as much, “Don’t take me in this sleeping position, please, because I am not a sick person. Within a jiffy, she pulled herself up from the bed, got on the chair beside her bed and picked up the baby. Mother and child, it was a sight to behold.

    And when the baby seemed reluctant to steady his head, mother simply said, “Baba, let them see your handsome face.’ And as if the latter heard, he immediately steadied for the shoot.

    The retired matron

    Ajibola Otubusin, a trained nurse, retired as a matron in April 2012. She trained at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Ilorin Teaching Hospital, amongst other intensive trainings. She worked for a while at LUTH before she got married and moved with her husband to Kainji, Niger State, where they lived for 18 years. She had most of her work experience with NEPA Medicare, traversing several NEPA facilities in Egbin, Shiroro, Jebba and Kainji. She also worked a bit at Ijora Termal Station clinic and Oshodi clinic/hospital. But she never gave up in her search for the fruit of the womb.

  • Wife to Court: My husband wants to kill me with sex

    A Grade “C” Customary Court in Iseyin on Wednesday dissolved a seven-year-old marriage between one Baliki Oke and her husband,  Arowolo, over the latter’s incessant demand for sex.

    Baliki had approached the court in July seeking dissolution of her marriage to Arowolo over his frequent sex demand.

    She told the court that the union had produced a six-year-old boy.

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    “My husband wants to kill me with sex, he demands sex more than he does for food, he wants to have sex with me six times in a day before he gets satisfied.

    “Arowolo goes to the farm very early in the morning and would not wait for me to bring his lunch.

    “He will come home in the afternoon just to have sex twice before he goes back to the farm and would still make demands when he returns at night.

    “Anytime I try to resist him, he will beat me till I surrender.

    “I have decided to quit for the sake of my life, I don’t want to die now, my lord, please dissolve this marriage,’’ she said.

    Responding, Arowolo, who did not refute the claims of his estranged wife, told the court that he has a high sex drive.

    “I have worked very hard to solve this problem of incessant sex urge to no avail.

    “The truth is that I can’t cope with life without sex, I can’t work, eat or play, sex is more important to me than anything else in life.

    “I have been suffering since she packed out of our house about 10 days ago; I have not been going to work, I have begged her relatives to plead with her on my behalf, “he said.

    Arowolo, who urged the court not to dissolve the marriage, also promised that he will check his urge for sex if she returns.

    Delivering judgment, the President of the court, Chief Adelodun Raheem, said that all the efforts of the court to plead with the wife and her relatives to resolve the crisis did not yield a positive result.

    Raheem, consequently, dissolved the marriage and granted the custody of their child to Baliki.

    He ordered Arowolo to be paying N2, 500 weekly to the court’s registrar for the child’s upkeep.

  • Woman ‘fakes’ self-kidnap, daughter to dupe husband N15m

    The police yesterday paraded a 45-year-old woman, Hadijat Kabir for allegedly faking kidnap of herself and her sick daughter, Hamidat, 18, in order to fleece her husband of N15 million.

    Mrs Kabir was arrested alongside Ahmed Kudos, 29, who allegedly negotiated ransom with the woman’s husband, Alhaji Kabir Muraino as well as the wife of a native doctor, Adijat Rufai, 39, said to be a member of the gang.

    According to Police Commissioner Imohimi Edgal, the native doctor, Wasiu Rufai, Luqmon Ahmed and one Jossy were being trailed by the police in connection to the matter.

    He said Alhaji Muriano had reported to the police on August 2, at about 3:30pm that he received a call from his wife, who was on her way to a psychiatric hospital with their daughter, that they have been kidnapped.

    Edgal said: “The man reported at Ikotun Police Station that the kidnappers were demanding N15 million ransom.

    “Based on this, the Anti-Kidnapping Squad were directed to ensure speedy rescue of the hostages and arrest of the suspects. Investigation revealed that the kidnappers were making their demands from Ado-Odo community in Ogun State.

    “The operatives busted the  kidnappers’ den. The hostages were rescued and the  suspects were arrested.

    “When the wife was debriefed, she confessed that she planned her kidnap with the suspects arrested to defraud her husband. She named those on the run as members of the syndicate.”

    Mrs Kabir told reporters she plotted the kidnap because her husband was not caring for her needs.

    She said: “I bore four children for him. He has two wives and I am the first. I have been with him for 27 years. I did not use my daughter for ritual. I just wanted money from my husband.

    “He would always shout at me if I requested for money. He would not even tell me gently, he would always flare up. I was a fashion designer before I married him. My daughter has been convulsive since she was a kid.

    “My family members would call me to ask for money even my mum but I do not have any money to give them. I would ask my husband for money, he would not give me. I asked him for just N500,000 and he refused. We were not kidnapped. We just hid at a place and contacted him.”

    But her husband denied allegations of negligence, claiming that he opened a shop for her and also gave her N300,000 and their son added N150,000 to it recently.

    He said he had complained to her parents that she was wayward and unfaithful and had told them he would send her back home not knowing that she was nursing such a plan.

    Kudus, a betting company employee, said he knew the woman through his brother, Ahmed Lukman, a panel beater, who’s her lover.

    He said: “They do lodge in a hotel called Church Hotel. They usually spent close to three hours there. So, they called me over. I asked them why they did not come straight to the house instead of lodging in a hotel, she told me her daughter is sick and she wanted to take her for treatment. I told her she should have taken her to the hospital instead of coming to Ogun State. She said it is not the work of a hospital that a herbalist was capable of treating her daughter. The two men I met there left immediately.

    “I spoke to the woman’s husband on phone while the woman pretended to be crying and was talking about a million naira during the conversation.

    “The woman was like it was too small that he should make it N4 million. I was surprised, so they explained to me. I spoke to the man and asked if he had made any promise to them he said yes that he told them one million naira. I asked him to give them and I left. I did not collect any money from them.”

    Mrs. Rufai said she was arrested because her husband fled, adding that she had nothing to do with the crime.

  • Husband ‘slaps wife to death’

    A man, Premie Imafidon, was yesterday brought before an Ebute-Metta Chief Magistrates’ Court for allegedly slapping his wife, Hope, to death.

    Imafidon, 47, was arraigned by the police on a temporary one-count charge of murder before Mrs A.O. Ajibade.

    Prosecuting Sergeant Maria Dauda alleged that the defendant committed the offence at about 7pm on June 15, at 25, Apata Street, Agege, Lagos.

    Dauda said Imafidon slapped Hope, 42, after a heated argument, and she collapsed.

    According to the prosecutor, the offence contravened Section 224 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.

    Imafidon pleaded not guilty.

    Dauda made an application seeking the defendant’s remand, pending advice from the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).

    Chief Magistrate Ajibade upheld her prayer.

    She remanded Imafidon in Ikoyi Prisons and ordered that the case file be sent to the DPP.

    The case continues on September 3.

  • Husband ‘beats’ expectant wife to death four months after wedding

    •Assailant dumps body in parents house

    Barely four months after marriage, a husband, Samuel Mgbeodinma, has allegedly beaten his wife, Gloria, to death in Lagos.

    The incident occurred at Ikotun in Alimosho Local Government Area of the state on Saturday night shortly after the Nigeria-Croatia World Cup match.

    The woman was said to have hit her head on the floor after being pushed by her husband.

    Mgbeodinma allegedly bundled her remains into his car, drove to his parents residence at Egbeda, parked and left without saying anything.

    His inlaws were said to have come for their daughter’s body at noon on Sunday.

    The cause of the couple’s scuffle could not be ascertained at press time last night.

    But, according to a Facebook user, Meg Barn, Mgbeodinma did not tell his parents about the incident until about 9am on Sunday.

    Our correspondent learnt that the late Gloria was six weeks pregnant. She graduated last year from the Department of Science and Laboratory Technology of the Federal Polytechnic in Bida, Niger State, and was the Financial Secretary for the Faculty of Social Sciences.

    A relative of the late alleged that Mgbeodinma kept her from the rest of her family after their wedding.

    She said there were marks on the late Gloria’s face and body, indicating domestic violence.

    She said: “We are cousins. Her parents stay in Kwara State and that’s where she was based. She met him (Mgbeodinma) in Lagos when she came for her internship programme sometimes ago. Then, along the line, they lost touched and she searched for him through his surname on Facebook and found him.

    “That was how they reconnected. Our family did not know anything about him until December when she came with him during a family meeting and brought invitation card for their traditional marriage and white wedding.

    “I know that the elders asked then what he did for a living and he said he was a businessman. So, the wedding came and passed.

    “But we found it strange that she was not keeping in touch anymore. We never saw her again after that and each time any one of us called her, she’ll say ‘I will call you back’ but never did.

    “Seems her husband isolated her from the family because it was now that this happened that we started hearing so many things.

    “For instance, we just learnt that the husband lost his job before their wedding and that it was last month that he got another job. We also learnt that all the while, she has been living with him at his family house and that they just moved into their house at Ikotun last month too.

    “Also, my aunt said her dad called her last week that she complained she was sick and her husband did not want to take her to the hospital. So, her dad told my aunt, who’s a nurse, to look for her and take her to the hospital.

    “She said she called her to ask for her house address and my cousin sent her a message that she should not bother coming. That she was going to come to her. This was last week Wednesday and then on Saturday the incident happened.”

    The source said what happened remained a mystery. But the police, according to her, have said the violent marks on the late Gloria’s face and body showed that she was assaulted.

    The source said: “Her husband denied he did not beat her. He said after watching the Nigeria-Croatia match that Saturday, he came back and told her he wanted to go and have a haircut. He said by the time he got back, he saw her on the floor. That she might have fallen.

    “If that is true, why then did he, instead of taking her to the hospital, put her inside the car and took the car to his parent’s house at Egbeda?  He left her inside the car. She was in the car till about 12pm on Sunday, when our family members went there and took her to the mortuary.

    “Our people called the police and the police saw the marks on her body. For now, the man has not been arrested. Police have called for her father to come and make statement. He was supposed to come on Monday from Kwara but could not because his blood pressure had risen. So, they are expecting him to come and file official complaint before the man would be arrested. It is a sad thing. She did not deserve to die like that.”

    In her Facebook post, Barn wrote: “Gloria Onyedikachi Odinma (Nee Ngoforo) a beauty from Arondizuogu. How cruel can life be? Like every young beautiful girl dreams of walking down the aisle someday, yours came calling, on February 10. As you got married to your supposedly heartthrob Mgbeodinma Samuel from Awo-Idemili, little did you know that you will take a sudden bow from this space tragically via domestic violence.

    “Killed by your husband on Saturday, who after your demise, put your corpse in his car, drove to his parents house in Lagos, did not inform them till Sunday by 9am.

    “Must we hit ourselves to pass a message to our partner? Domestic violence is evil…quit now and seek help. Talk to someone. I did not want to post this after a friend sent it to me. I told him I won’t post but looking at your picture lying on the ground, I do not think I will ever forgive myself if I did not post.”

  • ‘My wife was disvirgined right in my presence’

    “I dated my girl for three years without sex. For her, I decided to remain celibate because she wasn’t ready for it.

    After our Traditional marriage, she still refused and wouldn’t let me touch her at all.

    We however fixed our wedding date. On my bachelor’s eve, my friends were around with their girlfriends.

    I really wanted to have my woman to myself that night and I spoke to her about it but she turned me down as usual and begged me to wait a little longer. I agreed after all, we would be married soon.

    At last D-DAY finally came and I was waiting patiently for the wedding ceremony to be over.

    At 6pm, we were home relaxing. I called  my wife and asked that we  take a shower together, she said she was shy and cannot come. I didn’t force her.

    She however had her bath first and I had mine later. When I finished, I came out to meet my wife asleep.

    I joined her in bed, kissed her and she woke up. I’m not even sure she was really asleep. I started making advances because I really needed it. I had waited for too long.

    My beloved wife started crying and begging me to wait till nightfall, that she needed to get some rest and when she wakes up, I’ll do all I so desire to do with her. I couldn’t hold it anymore but I managed to control the urge.

    At about 9pm or there about, we heard a knock on the door, and the person behind said he had come to drop a parcel sent to us by my mother.

    I went to get the door and I was shocked to see five armed men in mask.

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    I begged them not to harm us. They asked for money but we had no money at home, after all we just got married.

    To cut the story short, these men took turns in raping my wife.

    She got disvirgin by the first right in front of me. Right in my own eyes.

    I couldn’t bear it. I cried as I watched those heartless men force themselves on my wife.

    They didn’t leave her until she was unconscious. After the entire tragedy, I called neighbours and we rushed her to the hospital.

    After two days, she regained consciousness. I made sure she was fine.

    But really guys, I cannot forget that day, My wife was disvirgined right in my presence.

    I can’t touch her no more, i don’t even crave for her anymore.

    I cannot live with her anymore. I want to file a divorce already. What would you advise me to do?”

     

     

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  • Woman pours hot water on husband for allegedly neglecting children

    For allegedly abdicating his fatherly duties to his four children, Ibe Akachi’s wife, Joy Imeribe, has poured hot water on him.

    It was gathered that the incident occurred on May 29 at the couple’s 21 Karounmi Street in Ijeshatedo, Lagos.

    Imeribe, who was paraded yesterday for attempted murder and domestic violence by Police Commissioner Imohimi Edgal, told reporters she acted in self-defence.

    The woman, who said she had lived with Akachi for 13 years, despite his failure to pay her bride price, said: “My action was in self-defence. The father of my children always beats me. In fact, on one occasion, he even stabbed me with a knife on the left hand.

    “What happened this time was that he left the house without dropping money for food. I had to borrow N1,000 from a neighbour to prepare food for the children.

    “…I also borrowed another N2,000 from my neighbour to buy second-hand clothes from Yaba.  My plan was to resell the clothes at Aswani Market so that I could get money to keep feeding the children.

    “As I returned from Yaba at 4 p.m, my husband, who I met at home, asked me where I was coming from. I told him the truth, but he did not believe and started beating me.

    “He claimed I was a flirt and had gone to see some of my male friends. The beating went on all night. In the morning, when I noticed he had gone into the kitchen to prepare his food, I also went there and boiled water to bath my children.

    “He wanted to start beating me again. To defend myself, I carried the boiling water in a bucket and poured it on him.

    “My husband has not been keeping up with his responsibilities as a father and man of the house. He outright refuses to bring money for food and other upkeep.

    “When I saw the injury on his body, I regretted my action. But I did it to protect myself. I had moved out of the house early this year but after pleas from him and friends, I returned with my children. It is about six weeks ago I came back and he started with his old ways.”

    Decrying the spate of domestic violence in the state, Edgal emphasised the need for couples to discuss their problems and solve them without resorting to violence.

    He said: “Findings in the matter revealed that the husband and wife had a verbal disagreement, which did not go down well with the wife. She went to bed with grudges on her mind. The next morning, while her husband was in the kitchen preparing breakfast, the wife, who had been seething with anger over the unsettled issue bordering on her keeping late nights, boiled a bucket of water and emptied the content on her husband.

    “She did not deny committing the crime; however she told the police that her husband used to beat her in the past. She would be charged to court.”

  • Husband accused of killing wife

    The police yesterday rescued a man from being lynched for allegedly killing his wife.

    The man was caught on Balogun Street, Oshodi on his way to dispose his wife’s body. He was with his three children.

    Luck ran out on him when some youths stopped him to ascertain the content of the smelling bowl on his head.

    They were shocked to find that it contained human parts.

    The irate youths stripped him naked and started beating him.

    Some patrolling policemen rescued him.

    He was taken to Akinpelu Police Station alongside with the three children for further investigation.

    Police spokesman, Chike Oti, a Superintendent (SP) confirmed the arrest of the man.

    Oti said the man is being investigated for alleged murder of his wife.

    “The three children were taken away for proper care. Their mother is dead and their father is undergoing murder investigation,” he said.