Woman Stabs Husband To Death Over Demands For Christmas Cooking

The police in Lagos have arrested a woman,
who allegedly stabbed her husband to death
in Ikorodu area of Lagos over his alleged
refusal to provide money for Christmas
cooking.
There were different accounts as to what
led to the Christmas day killing. A version
of the account at Vanguard’s disposal said
that the couple, identified as Mr. and Mrs.
Romanus Odo, were engaged in a verbal
confrontation in their apartment at
Majidun, Awori area of Ikorodu.
A neighbour. identified as Iya Madinat, who
claimed to have gone to settle the quarrel,
said that Christiana accused her husband,
Romanus, of neglecting the family’s needs
on Christmas day.
A resident, Kasali Igbehinadun, who spoke
with Vanguard, said: “Iya Modinat, who
went to separate them, said that the
woman held her husband and prevented
him from leaving the house. She insisted
that he must give her money to buy chicken
before she would allow him go out.
“When we begged her to leave him alone,
she refused, saying she had been
demanding for the money for over one week
now.
“She also accused him of spending his
money on women outside, thereby
neglecting her and her children. In the
process, her husband dropped N1,000 on
the floor, but she said he should go to the
market and get the things himself with the
amount, which she said would not get her
anything.
“Iya Modinat and another man that went to
settle the dispute later left them. The next
thing we heard was a shout for help and we
all rushed to the room only to find
Romanus in a pool of blood on the floor.
“By then his wife was crying and running
all over the place. We held her until the
arrival of policemen, who whisked her and
the corpse away.”
Another resident, Mr. Chinedu Nwoko, who
spoke with Vanguard, accused the suspect
of always fighting with her husband at the
slightest provocation.
He said: “She had always threatened to kill
him one day and has made good her
threat.”
However, another version stated that the
couple had not been on speaking terms for
over two weeks and that Romanus had
been away from the house for close to two
weeks because of the incessant quarrel with
his wife.
The deceased was said to have been
contemplating on walking out of the
marriage until the unexpected occurred.
Meanwhile, Lagos State Police Command
spokesperson, Dolapo Badmus, who
confirmed the arrest to Vanguard, stated
that the corpse had been deposited in a
mortuary for autopsy, while the woman will
be prosecuted.