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.
gathered that 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.
We gathered that the suspect, an indigene of
Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, had a one-year-old
baby for the deceased, who was an Edo State indigene.
When our correspondent visited the area on Tuesday, a
neighbour, Busola Adewunmi, explained 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."
Our correspondent learnt that after Jude was stabbed,
Folashade called for help. However, Igbinedor gave up
shortly after.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 ..
"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 our correspondent that the
suspect and the deceased had been having silent
quarrels before the incident.
"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."
The Police Public Relations Officer, Lagos State
Command, DSP Kenneth Nwosu, however, confirmed
the incident,
"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
IkoroduGeneral Hospital morgue for autopsy."
He added that the case had been transferred to State
Criminal Investigation Department for further
investigation
.
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