23-yr-old wife stabs husband to death over phone call

The long arm of the law has caught up with a 23-year-old housewife identified as Damilola Ayeni after she stabbed her husband to death over a phone call.

Reports say the suspect stabbed her husband Olumide, to death at their house on Bamgbose Street, Lagos Island after she suspected he may be having an extra-marital affair.

The suspect was said to have stabbed her 36-year-old husband in the chest and he was rushed to the Lagos Island General Hospital where he was pronounced died.

According to the father of the deceased, Sunday Ayeni, who reported the matter to the police, the couple have been married for two years with two kids.

The deceased father also added that the marriage of the pair had been riddled with misunderstanding which he tried to quell to no avail.

Mr. Sunday Ayeni said; “My son and I work at the Lagos Island General Hospital. While I work as a security guard, he worked in the pharmacy department. They got married at the Ikoyi registry.

“They had issues many times and my son reported her to me. I told them to go their separate ways, but people said I should not come between them.

“On Friday, after my son and I closed from work in the evening, he went for a party. Around that time, he called his wife on the telephone and they spoke.

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“When he returned home that night, his wife waited for him at the door and stopped him from entering. She said she heard the voice of a woman in the background when they spoke on the telephone and accused him of infidelity. That was how she stabbed him in the chest and killed him. There was no struggle between them. Their two children were taken away by the wife’s mother. She has a three-month-old baby.”

However, a source who declined to be mentioned said the suspect killed her husband in self defence as her husband was the aggressor.

The source said; “The woman said the deceased called her mobile phone sometime in the evening, but she missed the call. When he came back home around 1am on Saturday, he queried her whereabouts when he called her phone. He accused her of infidelity and charged at her with a knife. She then picked the kitchen knife and stabbed him in self-defence.”

Confirming the incident, CSP Chike Oti, the state Police Public Relations Officer said the Commissioner of Police, Edgal Imohimi, is worried at the growing increase of spousal killings.

Oti said, “Early Saturday morning, the police got a report that a woman, Damilola Ayeni, stabbed her husband, Olumide Ayeni, with a knife on the left side of the chest. The victim was rushed to the Lagos Island General Hospital where he died.

“The CP advises couples to resolve their matrimonial disputes amicably without resorting to violence which may ultimately lead to the death of either of them.”

 

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