A 23-year old woman identified as Damilola
Ayeni is currently in police custody after she allegedly stabbed her
36-year old husband Olumide to death in the early hours of
Saturday at their residence
on Bamgbose Street, Lagos Island.Twitter user and medical doctor @scothot001
had shared the news on Saturday afternoon and now more details have emerged in
the tragic story.
@scothot001 had said:
Another woman just stabbed her husband because he
cheated. They have a 40day old baby. The man was a Lab scientist at Gen
hospital (Lagos Island). The pictures are gruesome; a friend sent them to me. I
can’t bring myself to post them. How can you kill you someone?!
According to Punch, the father of the deceased Sunday
Ayeni, who reported the case to the police said:
My son and I work at the Lagos Island General
Hospital. While I work as a security guard, he worked in the pharmacy department.
They got married at the Ikoyi registry.
They had issues many times and my son reported
her to me. I told them to go their separate ways, but people said I should not
come between them.
On Friday, after my son and I closed from work in
the evening, he went for a party. Around that time, he called his wife on the
telephone and they spoke.
When he returned home that night, his wife waited
for him at the door and stopped him from entering. She said she heard the voice
of a woman in the background when they spoke on the telephone and accused him
of infidelity.
That was how she stabbed him in the chest and
killed him. There was no struggle between them. Their two children were taken
away by the wife’s mother. She has a three-month-old baby.
One source told Punch that the suspect said she
acted in self defence. The source said:
The woman said the deceased called her mobile
phone sometime in the evening, but she missed the call. When he came back home
around 1am on Saturday, he queried her whereabouts when he called her phone. He
accused her of infidelity and charged at her with a knife. She then picked the
kitchen knife and stabbed him in self-defence.
According to Punch, Damilola has
been transferred to the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence
Department, Yaba for further investigation.
Confirming the news, Lagos Police PRO CSP
Chike Oti, said:
Early Saturday morning, the police got a report
that a woman, Damilola Ayeni, stabbed her husband, Olumide Ayeni, with a knife
on the left side of the chest. The victim was rushed to the Lagos Island
General Hospital where he died.
The CP advises couples to resolve their
matrimonial disputes amicably without resorting to violence which may
ultimately lead to the death of either of them.
Photo Credit: Punch
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