Michael David, a 31-year-old Carpenter who resides in Ojodu area of
Lagos, has murdered his wife, Oyinyechi Dennis and reported himself to
the police.
Read his narration to the police via Vanguard.
“Oyinye is the mother of my son, although I
did not marry her legally but when she became pregnant for me, I went
to her aunty and uncle who she was living with for introduction.
’We then started living together. But we had a misunderstanding and then she packed out of my house.
“On Tuesday morning, Onyinye came to my
house, I thought she just came to visit me but I later saw her mood and
knew something was wrong. She confronted me with an issue she heard. She
said I was spreading rumour about her living a wayward life style and
not sleeping at home.
‘’She asked me if I was behind the rumour and I told her yes, that I had noticed it since she left my place.
‘’Out of anger, she picked up a bottle,
broke it and threatened to deal with me and we began to fight. While we
were fighting, I overpowered her and took the broken bottle from her.
She rushed again to where the knife was and picked the knife.
‘’Out of anger, I collected the knife from her and mistakenly stabbed her in the stomach with the knife, shortly after she died.
“After my action, I sat for sometime
thinking of what to do, whether to run away or go to the police station
to report myself. I then decided to report myself at Tolu Divisional
Police Station.
A sister to the deceased who gave her name as Chika, claimed that the
issue that led to her sister’s death started since the victim moved
back to the family house.
She explained:
“When Onyinye moved her things back to the
house. I asked her what was wrong, and she said nothing, that she does
not want to continue leaving with Michael.
“Even a week before this incident, when
Michael came to visit his son in the family house, immediately he
entered, Onyinye walked out of the house. But I was surprised when he
called me on Tuesday to inform me that Onyinye is dead and that he was
at the police station.
‘’I immediately rushed down to the police station to find out if it was true and that was where I heard the whole story.
“What was even more surprising is the fact
that on that same day, after the incident, he called one of our
neighbours to tell my other sister to bring his son which she did but
after sometime, he returned the boy.
‘’Maybe he was thinking of running away
with his son but God did not give him the courage to do so. All I just
desire now is for the police to complete investigation into the matter
and let the law deal with him accordingly.”