A Lagos-based lawyer, Udeme Odibi, who reportedly stabbed
her husband, Otike Odibi, to death, has allegedly confessed to the murder.
The police said the 47-year-old called her mother on the
telephone immediately after committing the alleged crime to tell her.
The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Edgal Imohimi, who
gave the update on Monday during a press briefing at the command headquarters
in Ikeja, said the suspect also sent a message to her sister on WhatsApp
shortly before the incident.
The CP added that the suspect had procured a set of new
knives from which she allegedly picked to kill her 50-year-old spouse.
PUNCH Metro had reported that Udeme last Thursday allegedly
stabbed her husband with a knife at their residence on Diamond Estate, Sangotedo,
Ajah.
She was also said to have cut off his private parts and
placed them on his hand before she stabbed herself in the stomach.
Udeme, however, survived the attack and was admitted to a
hospital.
Otike was reported to have called a neighbour, his younger
sister and his mother on the telephone on Wednesday, informing them that Udeme
threatened to kill him.
It was also reported that the duo’s three-year-old marriage
did not produce a child and was fraught with domestic violence.
Imohimi said investigations into the case revealed that the
couple had marital issues bordering on extramarital affairs.
He said, “On the day of the incident, the suspect sent a
WhatsApp message to her sister-in-law complaining about her husband and asking
her to pray for them. She equally asked God to forgive her.
“The suspect, Udeme Odibi, in her statement, confessed to
the commission of the alleged crime and called her mother on the telephone that
she had killed her husband. The suspect had hit her husband with a frying pan
on his head before stabbing him with a knife.”
Imohimi explained that Udeme, after ripping out her
husband’s intestines, did not seek assistance from their neighbours, adding
that the killing was suspected to be premeditated.
The CP said, “The suspect had procured a set of knives which
she used to execute her plan. She had packed all her certificates and made
arrangements to travel to the United Kingdom that Thursday through Virgin
Atlantic.
“The autopsy on the
deceased is currently being carried out at the Lagos State University Teaching
Hospital, Ikeja, by a team of pathologists, while the forensic analysis result
is being compiled and will be made public later.”
By Jove! She had planned his gruesome murder for a while.
The suspect even announced her intention to her victim days before the slaughter.
Insanity!
She informed a few others, including his sister. Told her mum after she finished him.
This is abnormal human behaviour.
I wish the man had taken off.
You don't hang around anyone who threatens your life. Don't second-guess or attempt to rationalise their state of mind.
I suppose he stayed put with the reasoning that "it happens to/with other people and not to me... Not to us...
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