The narrative of the incident came from the five year old son of the couple who had witnessed the horrifying murder that included the use of belt, machete and insecticide.
The victim’s mother, Mrs Kate Jonathan narrated how she came to find out about her daughter Maureen’s death who she said had previously moved out of her matrimonial home due to constant abuse from her husband and had just returned a day before for the child’s school party. She says:
“I was called on the telephone by an unknown number around 4pm on Sunday, November 12. The caller said, ‘Your daughter’s husband has killed her at Oworo’. He dropped the call. Around 5pm when I got to their house, I discovered that the house was locked up. There were two boys guarding the house and they refused to open the door to me, saying the owner of the house instructed them not to open the door. I didn’t see my daughter or her husband. I was begging them to open the door when I saw Richard jumping up through the window. He saw me and asked the boys to open the door, but they refused. I broke the louvers of the window. The boy climbed a stool and said from inside, ‘my father has killed my mother and taken her away.’”
But most harrowing was the child’s report when he was asked what had happened. He told reporters as we imagine what imageries might have been going on in his mind after witnessing such a traumatic incident:
“My daddy beat my mummy with a belt; machete her here (shows arms), machete her here (shows legs). He used the belt on her here (points at face); forced my mummy to drink otapiapia (insecticide). My daddy took my mummy away.My daddy said my mummy should get out of the house. My mummy said no. In the night, my daddy woke my mummy up and said, ‘Mosquito is too much, let me go and buy otapiapia’. My daddy forced my mummy to drink it. She shook her head. She vomited.My daddy slapped my mummy. My mummy did not do anything to him. My daddy gave her one blow. My daddy kicked her. My daddy told her to get out of the house and carry her load. Small blood came out. My daddy slapped her, kicked her, machete her, blow her, and put otapiapia in her mouth and in the food.”
The suspect 32 year old Mr. Olaoluwa Adejo who works in a Bank is in police custody at Oworoshoki Police Station and is being worked on to get a full account of the incident. He was said to have been married to Maureen for over five years and all the while he had always beat her up.
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