An auxiliary
nurse, Mrs. Folashade Idoko, has been accused of stabbing her husband to death
in Lagos.
The incident
occurred on Sunday at their residence located at 20, Kosoko Street, Ayetoro,
Oto-Awori local government area of the state.
The Nation
gathered that the deceased had suffered years of domestic violence from his
wife but kept quiet.
The couple
had two children – a three-year-old boy and one-year old girl.
Neighbours
and their landlord confirmed the several years of domestic abuse the
32-year-old Lawrence Idoko suffered from his wife.
A source
said Sunday’s attack was triggered by jealousy from the nurse, who accused her
husband of infidelity.
The source
said the deceased, a pipeline engineer with Greater Inspection and Industrial
Services at Sango-Otta, Ogun State, was away on official assignment for a week
at Ikorodu.
She said:
“He returned and his wife accused him of having extra-marital affair. She
stabbed him in the leg with a sharp knife. When his three-year-old son’s cries
alerted neighbours, he had bled heavily. He died about an hour after he was
rushed to a nearby New Ayetoro Medical Centre.”
But Mrs.
Idoko, a native of Kwara State, who has been arrested by policemen at Ijaniki,
claimed the knife fell on her husband by accident.
A neighbour,
Mrs. Blessing Olokpobri, who expressed sadness over the man’s death, confirmed
the woman’s bad treatment of her deceased husband.
“Their
history of violence was known to everybody in the neighbourhood. Even on
January 1, they fought. There was a time she went to drag him and stripped him
Unclad from a beer parlour around here and beat up an elderly neighbour. There
was even a time she sliced his ear lobes with a broken bottle and it had to be
stitched,” she said.
The
deceased’s landlord, Chief Gani Akanni, who rushed him to the hospital, said he
issued a quit notice to the couple because of their incessant fights but
changed his mind after other tenants pleaded on their behalf.
Akanni,
who’s the Balogun of Ayetoro, said: “There was a time I took the woman to the
police station because she vandalised my property after I locked up the
tenants’ rooms for defaulting in payment of Lagos Waste Management Agency
(LAWMA) bills. She went ahead to break the door. It was unfortunate because the
husband is such a quiet and peaceful man.”
Idoko’s aunt
confirmed his death, describing it as unfortunate.
She said: It
was unfortunate that spousal abuse is still prevalent and that it continues to
take a toll on partners, either male or female. She My nephew, like many men
and women who die daily in violent relationships, would have been alive had
they fled such deadly arrangements in the name of marriage.
“We, the
family, will ensure that justice is done. This is another young and promising
life deliberately cut short and this wickedness will not go unpunished.
“We would
have intervened one way or the other but he hid the entire violent scenario
from us. Persons suffering domestic violence should always call out for help.
It was indeed a big tragedy for us.”
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