A
32-year-old businessman, Ezekiel Igbokwe, has been arrested by the Ogun State
Police Command for allegedly killing his wife’s lover, Victor Olatundun.
Igbokwe
was said to have killed Olatundun after he caught him having sex with his wife
at their matrimonial home.
The
suspect allegedly committed the offence at about 12am at Peace Lodge on Itura
Street, Awa Ijebu, Ijebu-North Local Government Area of Ogun State.
The
suspect, who committed the crime on Wednesday, July 27, was arrested by the
police the following day.
Igbokwe
and his 28-year-old wife were among the 23 suspects paraded at the Ogun State
Police Command headquarters, Eleweran, Abeokuta, on Thursday, for various
offences ranging from murder to illegal possession of firearms and ammunition.
Igbokwe,
who said he was a businessman, explained that he had returned from his trip to
Onitsha and met Victor on top of his wife on their matrimonial bed.
He
said he picked a machete in the toilet and cut the victim in the neck and hand.
Olatundun
reportedly died on the way to the hospital.
Igbokwe,
who deals in electronics, said he was born in Ago Iwoye, Ogun State.
He
said, “I travelled to Onitsha on July 25, and when I came back on July 27, I
met a man inside my room making love to my wife. Then we started fighting. The
man was stronger than me. When I saw he could overpower me, I got a cutlass in
my toilet and dealt him blows in the hand and neck. On the way to the hospital,
the fuel in the car finished and he died.”
Igbokwe
said he committed the crime due to anger, adding that he never meant to kill
the victim.
He
claimed that he had never met Olatundun before, saying he also never suspected
that his wife was having an extra-marital affair with anyone.
It was learnt that Igbokwe and his wife, Juliet,
have three children aged nine, seven and five.
Juliet,
who sobbed intermittently, said her alleged lover had been pressurising her for
a relationship for some time.
She
explained that she had always told him she was married, but the victim never
gave up until he ended up at their matrimonial home on that night.
Juliet,
who said she sold snuff, said Victor was her supplier and he pestered her for
six months before she finally gave in.
She
said she suspected that the deceased used a charm on her, as she could not
explain how it all happened.
She
said, “He had been disturbing me that he wanted to marry me, but I said I was
married.
“On
the day of the incident, I really can’t say if he used a charm on me. All I
know is that he called me that he wanted to see me and I told him not to come;
he knew my house and when he came, I didn’t know what happened.
“He
used to come and deliver snuff to me in the house. On the day of the incident,
he told me he was coming from somewhere and that it was already late. He wanted
to sleep in our place till the next day. He didn’t know that my husband was
away. He tried to sleep with me, but later he didn’t.”
Juliet,
who claimed that she got married to her husband in 2005, said the husband did
not take good care of her and the children.
She
said their marriage had been turbulent and fraught with fights and quarrels.
The
mother of three said each time there was a fight, her husband would leave the
house for months.
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