What started as a mild argument over money turned tragic
between a couple in the Ikorodu area of Lagos State after the wife stabbed her
husband to death.
The incident happened on Wednesday, last week, on TK Balogun
Street, Igbo Olomu, Ishawo.
According to PUNCH
Metro the woman, Folashade Sodiya, 27, killed her husband, Jude
Igbinedor, 39, around 2am after heated argument over money.
They were said to have been in a seven-year relationship,
though the union had not been consented to by the parents.They reportedly got married without approval of their
parents and started living together two years ago, the suspect,is an indigene of
Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, had a one-year-old baby for the deceased, who
was Edo State indigene.
When Punch visited the area on Tuesday, a
neighbour, Busola Adewunmi, explained to punch correspondent that the couple had only recently
relocated to the area.She added that the couple had barely spent five days in
their single room apartment when tragedy struck.
Adewunmi described them as gentle and respectful tenants,
who complied with the rules of the house, adding that Folashade was, however,
temperamental while her husband smoked.
She said, “They packed into this house penultimate Saturday
morning, around 5am, and the incident happened on Wednesday morning.“On Tuesday, the wife had asked someone to lend her N1,000
pending when her husband would come back from his mother’s place where he had
gone to.“The man arrived and even bought vegetables and other food
stuffs for his family. In the evening, he came out and also washed the pots
they used to cook that day.“It was around 2am that things went sore. I learnt she said
he was the first to use a hanger to hit her before she also stabbed him in the
chest.”The neighbours were said to have alerted policemen from the
Owutu Police Division.
Another resident,said when the police arrived at the scene,
they met the suspect on the floor with her baby in her hands.The resident, who declined identification, said, “She had
become remorseful by then. When the police picked the wrong knife as exhibit,
she told them she used a stainless knife in killing her husband, which she also
fetched for them. It was said that she wanted to take part of the money the
husband brought from her mother to offset the money she borrowed, but he
declined.“She never denied killing him. But she said he was the first
to attack her and she only wanted to scare him with the knife.”The deceased’s corpse had been taken to the mortuary, while
the suspect was detained at the Owutu Police Station.A police source told Punch correspondent that the suspect
and the deceased had been having silent quarrels before the incident.
The source said, “No one can tell what exactly caused this
one. The woman, however, said her grouse with Jude was that he always gave her
the impression he did her a favour by letting her have his child.“She said she was holding the knife that night to scare him
and did not know when he rushed at her and the knife entered his chest.”
When Punch correspondent contacted a relative of the deceased,
he declined comment, referring our correspondent to the family lawyer whose
contact could not be obtained as of press time.The Police Public Relations Officer, Lagos State Command,
DSP Kenneth Nwosu, however, confirmed the incident.He said, “At about 1.15am on November 13, one Jude Igbinedor
was stabbed on the chest by his wife, Folashade Shodiya. The victim died on the
spot, while his corpse has been taken to the Ikorodu General Hospital morgue
for autopsy.”He added that the case had been transferred to State
Criminal Investigation Department for further investigation.
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