An Ebonyi man, Mr Onwe Nwogbagami, who had a practice of threatening
his wife, 25-years-old Blessing Onyibe Nwogbagami with a machete each
time they had a quarrel has had his life cut short by the spouse who
could no longer take the threats with wifely humility.
SUN newspaper reports that Blessing was arrested by the Ebonyi State Police Command after
killing her husband on October 13, 2014 with his machete at Ojegbe
Amike Ugbodo, Abakaliki, Ebonyi State.
On the fateful day, Nwogbagami had in his usual manner chased his
wife with his machete after they had a misunderstanding, threatening to
deal with her. Blessing ran out of the compound. The man turned back
and went to sleep in an uncompleted building.
According to the Ebonyi State Police Commissioner, Mr. Maigari Dikko,
Blessing came back, took the same machete and hacked Nwogbagami to
death as he lay sleeping.
Dikko said she locked her husband’s corpse in the house for two days and then fled to the village of her husband.
When Sunday Sun spoke with her at the headquarters of the Ebonyi
State Police Command, gave her account of the tragic incident. She 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.”
On hearing the report, the villagers took her to the police station
with her baby. Commenting on the incident, the Assistant Commissioner
of Police in-charge of the State Criminal Investigation Department, Mrs.
Justina Ogbodo said Blessing would be charged to court for murder. She
also disclosed that Blessing’s baby would be handed over to Social
Welfare Department to be placed in foster care.