Husband Allegedly Murders Wife in Lagos Over Meal Dispute

A yet-to-be-identified husband is suspected of committing the murder of his wife in the Olota area of the Alimosho Local Government Area of Lagos over her failure to prepare his meal last Thursday.

KanyiDaily gathered that the conflict began when the husband, returning from work, found that his wife had only made noodles instead of his preferred meal.

Following the incident, an anonymous eyewitness, who wished to avoid media attention due to intimidation fears, said that the suspect allegedly struck the victim on her head and subjected her to severe beating, leaving her behind in the house before leaving the scene.

According to the source, it was a neighbor who contacted the husband, informing him that his wife was experiencing convulsions.

It was discovered that despite the husband and neighbors’ attempts to promptly rush the convulsing wife to the hospital, their efforts were unsuccessful, as she unfortunately passed away halfway there.

Information obtained from a police source indicated the arrest of the suspect by the Lagos State Police Command.

However, at the time of reporting, Benjamin Hundeyin, the state Police Public Relations Officer, had not confirmed this detail.

Speaking on the matter, a source in the Meiran Police Division said the suspect was arrested after the brother of the deceased victim approached the station about the matter.

The source said, “It was the brother of the deceased who came to report the matter. He said the husband killed his sister.

“However, nobody has come forward to tell us that it was her husband who killed her. We have arrested the husband. The matter has already been moved to the State Criminal Investigation Department, Panti.”

Regarding the suspicion of the husband’s involvement in the wife’s death, the police source mentioned the challenge in determining this due to the family having already buried the deceased, making it difficult to gather conclusive evidence

The source added, “There is no indication yet, but we cannot say that we stop the investigation. We will allow justice to prevail and the district unit to perform its duties to know if it was the husband who beat her to death as claimed

“When we got there, none of the neighbors was willing to give us viable information concerning this. It happened on Thursday. Up to this morning, before we transferred the matter to Panti, nobody had come out to attest to the claim or the cause of death.

“We didn’t see the woman. Before they could report to us, the family had already gone to bury her according to Islamic rites. The father of the deceased even came to the police station and said he had forgiven the son-in-law, even if the claim was true.

“But the brother of the deceased insisted that it was the husband who killed his sister (wife). He said he hit his wife with an object and left her inside their apartment. He said it was the neighbor who called to tell him that the wife was convulsing. She died before they could rush her to the hospital.”

Kanyi Daily recalls that Kano State Police Command had arrested a Chinese man for allegedly stabbing his 23-year-old Nigerian lover, Ummakulsum Sani Buhari, to death at Janbulo quarters, Kumbotso local government area of the state.