Housewife Stabs Husband To Death Over Money Issues in Lagos
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| TK Balogun street, Igbo Olomu, Ishawo where the incident happened |
A Lagos woman have been arrested by the police after she allegedly stabbed her
husband to death after what started as a mild argument over money. The tragedy
happened in Ikorodu area of Lagos State.
Punch, reported the incident which happened on Wednesday, last week, at TK Balogun
Street, Igbo Olomu, Ishawo.
The woman, Folashade Sodiya, 27, killed her husband, Jude Igbinedor, 39,
around 2am after a 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, an indigene of
Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, had a one-year-old baby for the deceased,
who was an Edo State indigene.
When PUNCH visited the area on Tuesday, a neighbour, Busola Adewunmi,
explained that the couple had only recently relocated to the area. Adding 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, and 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.” 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, who spoke to PUNCH Metro, 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.”
PUNCH Metro gathered that the deceased’s corpse had been taken to the
mortuary, while the suspect was detained at the Owutu Police Station. A police
source said 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 contacted a relative of the deceased, he
declined comment, referring them 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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