Lagos Woman Pushes Husband To His Death Over Valentine Treat

A man met his death on Valentine's day when his wife angrily pushed him off a storey building because he did not give her a valentine's day treat coupled with previous monetary issues.

The woman, identified as Onyinyechi, who is a teacher in a private school, lived with her husband in Adefowope Street, off Beach Road, Etegbin, in the Otto Awori Local Council Development Area of Lagos before the unfortunate incident.

The incident which happened on Valentine's day has left neighbours and residents of the community saddened.

According to reports gathered by Punch, a man, who claimed to be a close friend of the deceased, insisted that the cause of the couple’s misunderstanding bordered on plans for Valentine’s Day.

Speaking on the condition of anonymity, he said, “George returned home in the evening of Valentine’s Day, a time the wife felt was already too late to go for an outing. She got angry and it resulted in a fight.”

Another source, who also claimed to have a close relationship with the family, however, said the cause of the fight was monetary issue.

He said, “A family friend had given George money to give to his wife as gift for their newborn baby. George did not only keep the money to himself, he also did not tell his wife about it. Onyinyechi later met the man, who asked her if she got the gift he sent through her husband. She was not only surprised, but furious that George could keep such a thing from her. It was in the process of asking him about it on the evening of Valentine’s Day that the fight started.”

A neighbour, who also spoke to Punch correspondent on the condition of anonymity, explained that the incident happened around 4pm on Valentine’s Day.

She said, “On Saturday, at about 4pm, my daughter rushed inside my apartment where I was sleeping to wake me up that Iyawo (Onyinyechi) and her husband were fighting upstairs.

“As she was still explaining to me, I heard a sound of something falling. I rushed out only to discover that it was my neighbour, George. I started screaming for help and other neighbours rushed in to assist me. We got a tricycle and rushed him to a hospital.

“The wife, however, remained upstairs in her apartment. She didn’t bother to come down to assist us, despite the fact that her seven-month-old daughter was downstairs playing with my children. George was certified dead at the hospital and we couldn’t take him to the mortuary without his family’s consent, so, we brought him back home and called his family members.”

Another neighbour, who identified herself as Mama Ifeoma, who was part of the people that took George to the hospital, said the doctor discovered a cut in his head and he claimed the injury could be as a result of an object that must have been used to hit him on the head.

She said, “The doctor told us that George must have been dead before he was pushed down from the balcony.”

Onyinyechi has however traveled to her home town in Nnewi, Anambra State with her daughter.

The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Kenneth Nwosu, is yet to respond to enquiries on the incident.

The way some people carry Valentine for head is pathetic..Its not by force to give or receive a gift!