A
25-year-old wife, Blessing Onyibe Nwogbagami has been arrested by the Ebonyi
State Police Command for killing her husband with a machete while he was
asleep.
The
woman was said to have hacked her husband, Mr Onwe Nwogbagami to death on
October 13, 2014, after a quarrel.
Daily
Sun reports that whenever the woman Blessing Onyibe Nwogbagami, and
her husband, Onwe Nwogbagami, got into an argument, he would chase her
around the compound with a machete and threaten to kill her.
On
one of such occasions on Monday, October 13th, after Onwe had chased her with
the weapon and threatened her, he went to sleep in an uncompleted building.
Blessing reportedly took the machete and hacked her husband to death while he
was asleep.
Speaking
on why she killed her husband, Blessing said,
“My
husband was fond of chasing me with cutlass whenever we have misunderstanding.
Whenever he brings out his cutlass, I will run out of the house for him. On
that particular day, October 13, 2014, I had a misunderstanding with him and
immediately he picked up his cutlass and chased me out of the house. Later he
went to an uncompleted building to sleep.
Then
I said to myself before my husband will kill me, let me kill him first. While
he was asleep I went to where he kept his cutlass and killed him. Then I ran to
my husband’s village at Ntezi Nkaliki and told the kinsmen that I killed my
husband.”
Upon
hearing her confession, the villagers took her along with her young baby to the
nearest police station.
The
Ebonyi State Police Commissioner, Mr. Maigari Dikko disclosed that the wife
locked her husband’s corpse in the house for two days before she fled to his
village.
Commenting
on the incident, Mrs. Justina Ogbodo, the Assistant Commissioner of Police
in-charge of the State Criminal Investigation Department, stated that Blessing
would be charged to court for murder, and that her baby will be placed in the
custody of the Social Welfare Department to be placed in foster care.
Source:sun
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