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.
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