Wife Petitions Police Over Attempt By Hubby To Murder Her

By JOHNKENNEDY UZOMA, Owerri.

A forty- four year old house wife, Mrs Njoku Ijeoma Kenneth, has petitioned the Zone 9 Police Headquarters, Umuahia, Abia State, through her lawyer, Barr Ken Ezinwa Onyemejalam over an attempt by her husband and his brother to murder her.

Mrs. Njoku alleged that her 46 old husband, Mr Kenneth Ikechukwu Njoku, her brother- in-law, Emeka Lazarus Njoku, including his wife, Iheoma Emeka Lazarus Njoku, had attempted to murder her in their house in Aba, last Friday.

In her petition to the police, she narrated that on 5th March, 2021, her husband asked her whether she saw any decoder outside, which he said his younger brother was looking for to which she responded no.

She said that immediately she said no, her brother in-law threatened to deal with her and at the same the wife of his brother in-law used an iron and hit her hard from the back repeatedly with her husband and his brother holding her hands as she jacked her up and hit her heap on the ground leaving her brutalized and in severe pain.

Ijeoma narrated that due to the internal pain and bruises she sustained, she went to the hospital where she was admitted and treated.

She said despite that she was still having severe ache all over her body with her children running helter- skelter, her business incurring loss, yet her husband kept threatening her.

She disclosed that since 2004 they got married in 2004 with 3 children, since then, her husband has been maltreating her to the point of keeping off from her matrimonial bed.

She said: “I miraculously escaped being murdered by my husband, his brother and his wife who are living in our house in Aba. They ganged up to murder me for no just cause after all I have done for them”.

She regretted that her husband who hails from Isiala Ngwa local government area of Abia State and a Supervisory Councillor, used their house in Aba to borrow fifteen million naira from a bank in Aba of which he did not share with her nor their children.

She noted that the matter is still in the court, blaming the issue to her husband’s ill action.

The victim, who hails from Edo State, while demanding for the arrest of her husband, his brother in-law and his wife called for their presecution which will serve as a punishment for their crime committed.

Ijeoma threatened to approach the court to ask for the dissolution of their marriage adding that she would no longer endure the domestic violence she experiences on daily basis in the hand of her husband who she identified as wicked.