Men of Ogun State Police Command have arrested a 26-year-old
man, Matthew Oguntade, for
allegedly killing his 20-year-old wife, Mary, over
her refusal to allow him make love to her.
the incident occurred at Owode-Ijako, Sango-Ota, Ado-Odo/Ota
last Friday, when the suspect invited his wife to come and collect N1,000 to
prepare food for the family. when the late wife arrived, the husband attempted
to forcefully have sex with her and while they were struggling, she got
strangled. The couple had been married for one and half years and blessed with
one child, and had stopped living together because the wife disliked their stay
in the husband’s mother’s house. Matthew Oguntade The late wife was reported to
have been sleeping in her Church, a Cherubim and Seraphim parish around the
area every night, to protest living with her husband in his mother’s house. The
state Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, who confirmed the
incident, said Mary’s death occurred as a result of a fight between the couple
due to a minor disagreement. According to Oyeyemi, the CDA Chairman of the
community, Iskilu Kareem, who reported the case to police, said he received a
telephone call from one of the vigilante groups in the area that the couple is
into serious scuffle. Before he got there, the husband had strangled his wife
to death, threw the body outside through their window and escaped. He said:
“The DPO, Sango-Ota, SP Akinsola Ogunwale, led detectives to the scene and took
the corpse to the General Hospital, Ifo, morgue. “The suspect was apprehended
and the Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Iliyasu, has directed that the suspect be
transferred to the Homicide Section of the State Criminal Investigation and
Intelligence Department, CIID, Eleweran, Abeokuta.”
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