The couple’s rented apartment.
Residents of Adefowope
Street, off Beach Road, Etegbin, in the
Otto Awori Local Council Development Area of Lagos are divided over the reasons
that could have made a woman to push her husband from the balcony of a
one-storey building on Valentine’s Day.
It was gathered that
the incident, which happened in the community, had left neighbours and
residents at loss over what might have actually transpired.
It was learnt that the
woman, identified as Onyinyechi, in anger pushed her husband, George, from the
storey building, leading to the husband’s death.
While some residents
claimed that Onyinyechi, who was a teacher in a private school in the area, was
angry that her husband did not give her a Valentine’s treat on a day when most
lovers made out time to celebrate each other, other residents said the couple
was quarreling over a monetary issue before the incident.
A man, who claimed to
be a close friend of the deceased, however, 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’s 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.
She said the doctor
explained that 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.”
When Punch’s
correspondent sought Onyinyechi’s comment on the issue, it was discovered that
she had traveled to her home town in Nnewi, Anambra State with her daughter.
The Lagos State Police
Public Relations Officer, DSP Kenneth Nwosu, has yet to respond to enquiries on
the incident as of the time of this report.
- Punch
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