The Lagos State Police Command has declared a 34-year-old bricklayer, Akinyemi Edgar, wanted for allegedly killing his wife, Ajoke, in the Mowo, Badagry area of Lagos State.
PUNCH Metro learnt that the suspect beat the 28-year-old to death during a disagreement at their home and dragged her corpse on the ground to a place near the community well, where he buried her.
Neighbours were said to have been frequently called in to settle disagreements between the couple until tragedy struck. A source said that the victim might have been killed over her plan to travel overseas in January 2018.
According to him, the couple have been married for some time now and they have three children together. I cannot explain how they met and married because while the man is a bricklayer, the wife was a graduate. They had been having a series of domestic problems and neighbours were always called in to resolve their fights. In fact, the quarrel got so critical that the woman’s family advised her to separate from him because they were not compatible, but she refused.
Late last year, she announced that she would be travelling abroad in January and the man became annoyed and vowed to end her life. On December 14, 2017, they had their usual disagreement and the man beat her to death. Ostensibly to deceive law enforcement agents from linking the death to him, he dragged her corpse far from their house and buried it beside a well. The corpse was later exhumed and the police were informed. The suspect had fled the house just as the case was transferred from the Morogbo Police Division to the command headquaters, Ikeja.
Efforts by residents and family members of the deceased to find the suspect had yet to be successful. The father of the victim, Mr. Atewologun Kalejaiye, had been inconsolable since the death of his daughter and called the police to give the family justice.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, SP Chike Oti, confirmed the incident, adding that the matter had been transferred from the command to the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, Yaba.
Evil man
ReplyDeletehmmmmmmm what a way to waste her life.
ReplyDeleteUseless man. I am sure he use juju on that woman to marry her and the juju cleared from her eyes.
The woman too is to blame. You were in a dangerous situation but i must stay married made you lose your life. RIP and comfort your families you left behind.
I pray they get the idiot soon.
@yoriyori Ever heard of jazz? Correct jazz?
DeleteA friend to a family friend was in my house for Christmas party last year. Bros drink sotey he begin to confess. The gist is, the family friend we know actually spiritually runs his wife falling for him as babe no gree after first. This got me thinking...... ehn ehn! I understand better now.
Hmmmmmmm.What a wicked heartless man.
ReplyDeleteWhen I tell people to marry their equal,marry someone you have the same ideology and path in life.
Perhaps if she married her fellow graduate,he won't be so insecure and he would understand her need to travel and it's for the benefit of the family.
This is the sort of husband that has inferiority complex and doesn't want the progress of his wife.
There is nothing as bad as an angry broke insecure man. Any progress you make in your life, he is angry about it.
RIP to the poor lady.
God bless you, my thoughts exactly.
DeleteWe ladies should marry within our class please.
Pray not to meet a man with Better jazz! Was a victim but thank God for my mum’s prayers! The evil guy confessed and his tummy bloated up and he died. I can imagine if I had gotten pregnant for him or had kids before the jazz cleared it would ve bn another story
DeleteYou think is the bricklayer in him that did it or the male in him? Like I said on a different post a Neurosurgeon here in Canada killed his wife last year after she asked for a divorce, she too was a doctor and they also had children. A man is a man whether a bricklayer or a doctor, there is violence in all men, no woman should ever take a man lightly.
DeleteI ran away with my kids because my husband is a violent man
ReplyDeleteYou took the best decision. No woman deserves to die like this now those children have been subject to suffering and all kinds of maltreatment.
DeleteSatanic agent, very wicked and heartless. I pray you are apprehended ASAP.
ReplyDeleteKai....this is one of the reasons i vow never to marry an illiterate...juz negodu
ReplyDeleteMy husband graduated from LSE and still was physically abusive so forget
DeleteWicked poor man. The man *bu ogbenye burukwa amusu*
ReplyDeleteHia oooh
ReplyDeleteI hope the idiot gets arrested.
I still reiterate, divorce your spouse rather than killing him or her.
Wicked man
ReplyDeleteLet Justice take place
I can never understand the reason why women stay with their abusers.
ReplyDeleteAfter series of beating she still stayed...pure madness
LEP😛
What is a graduate doing with an illiterate. It is well.
ReplyDeleteEnd time bricklayer. #igbochic
ReplyDeleteRIP MADAM. UR HUSBAND IS AN ANIMAL
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