A middle-aged man, Christopher Okon, an indigene of Ikot Abasi Local
Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, has been arrested by the police for
allegedly killing his wife and mother of his five children while
defending his secret lover from the wife who intended the beat the
intruder in Port Harcourt, the capital of Rivers State.
According
Authority Newspaper, Okon who is a driver with a company in the Garden
City, was in a secret relationship with the woman who is his neighbour
at the Nanka Street, Mie 1, home, not know that his wife, Nsikak , had
gotten wind of the illicit affair.
Trouble however started when
the victim came back from the market where she hawks cooked food and
discovered that her husband’s lover who is a single mother was feeding
her children.
When Nsikak confronted her rival on the right she
has in feeding her children when she had allegedly slept with her
husband and hardly greets her, the woman took offence and called Okon on
phone to tell him that his wife had insulted her.
It was further
learnt that on receiving the call from his lover that his wife was
threatening her, Okon quickly returned home and picked a quarrel with
his wife. In the heat of the quarrel, Okon allegedly picked a stick and
started beating his wife who was still breast feeding their last baby.
After
the beating, Okon reportedly sent the woman and her daughter from her
first marriage outside his apartment and locked the door with his five
biological children within.
It was gathered that the woman who had been suffering from high blood pressure, fell down and collapsed.
All
efforts by other neighbours to persuade Okon to take his wife to the
hospital proved abortive, as he told them he did not care what happened
to her. In the early hours of the following day, the neighbours noticed
that the woman was not breathing anymore and they forced the door open
and dragged him out to carry his dead wife.
He was thereafter handed over to the police.