Like a scene from a horror movie, a
police corporal, Lucky Ikharia, on
October 30, allegedly used a bus to
crush the legs of his wife, Dupe.
Having left her for dead, Lucky went
home where he allegedly stabbed his
baby, David, to death, ripping out the
toddler’s intestines.
Still in a rage, the policeman turned
the knife on himself in an attempt to
take his own life.
PUNCH Metro, however, learnt that
Lucky and his wife survived but both
were in critical conditions.
PUNCH Metro learnt that the incident
occurred at the family’s rented
apartment in Kale Close, Mafoluku,
Oshodi last week.
Our correspondent gathered that
four days prior to the incident, 34-
year-old Lucky, who hails from Sabon
Gida Ora, Edo State, had a quarrel
with his wife, Dupe over N2,000, after
which he reportedly sent her packing.
The policeman, who is attached to the
Makinde Police Division, Oshodi, Lagos
had also ‘seized’ their only child from
Dupe as a means of ‘punishing’ her.
PUNCH Metro learnt that around 8pm
on the day of the attack, Dupe, a 30-
year-old indigene of Abeokuta, Ogun
State, was heading for her mother’s
house in Mushin unknown to her that
Lucky was waiting in a bus to attack
her.
It was learnt that on getting to
Olorunshogo junction, Lucky pursued
his wife with the bus, crushing her
legs in the process.
Leaving her for dead, Lucky was said
to have fled the scene while passersby
initially thought the attack was
random.
However, after Dupe was rushed to a
nearby hospital on same evening for
treatment and had regained
consciousness the following morning,
she explained that the man who drove
the bus which crushed her legs was her
own husband.
Unknown to Dupe, after her husband
attacked her, he reportedly drove
back to their apartment where he
stabbed their child, David, in the belly,
before fleeing the residence.
Our correspondent learnt that
Lucky’s co-tenants and Dupe’s
relatives who discovered the baby’s
corpse on Friday morning, reported
the incident at the Akinpelu Police
Division. It was also gathered that
the knife and the bus had both been
recovered.
When PUNCH Metro visited the hospital
where Dupe was receiving treatment
on Monday, the woman, who could
hardly speak. She said the cause of
the fight was a sum of N2000 which
Lucky claimed she stole.
She said, “We got married and
started living together around
October 2013. We usually had quarrels
and that was not the first time he
would beat me up, and send me out of
the house. But this incident started
on Sunday, October 26. Lucky had
initially kept N15,000 with me.
“Then, on Sunday, he collected N5, 000
to repair the bus. Later I gave him
the rest, only to realise it was N8,
000. So, he began to question where I
kept the remaining N2000. But I knew
that it was his nature to stir up
trouble because he had a habit of
keeping money with me and going
again to take it.
“So, we began to fight, and he asked
me to leave the house. He did not allow
me to take the child with me that day.
I was sleeping in friends’ places until
Thursday when I decided to go back
home. I did not find my baby, and when
I asked him, he threatened that if he
met me in the house by evening, he
would kill me, kill the baby and
himself.”
Dupe said she was then called by her
mother to come to their family house
in Mushin, adding that as she got on
her way, and was at the Olorunshogo
junction, a commercial bus swerved to
her path and hit her several times.
She said, “The commercial bus was his
bus. He was the only man inside. He hit
me and I fell. Then he reversed and
came over my legs again. I lost
consciousness. That was the last
thing I knew.”
Our correspondent learnt from one of
the nurses that Dupe might be
admitted in the hospital for about two
months and might spend over N600,000
for treatment owing to the severity
of the attack.
One of Dupe’s relatives, Mr. Segun
Akiode, told our correspondent that
the family had yet to inform Dupe of
her son’s death. He added that the
family also did not know Lucky’s
whereabouts.
He said, “I was called on the phone on
Thursday evening that my sister was
knocked down at Olorunshogo
junction. When I got there, I met her
in a pool of blood. So, we rushed her to
a hospital. It was already around
9.30pm.
“On Friday, when we went to their
apartment, we found the baby boy,
stabbed in the belly and already dead
on the floor. We have not told Dupe
about his death yet. So, we went to
report at the Akinpelu Police Division,
and we were asked to describe the bus
which hit Dupe. When we did, they said
the bus was with them in the station,
but the whereabouts of Lucky were
still unknown.”
When our correspondent got to the
couple’s rented apartment in Kale
Close, Mafoluku, it was learnt from
neighbours that Lucky had not been
seen at home since the day of
incident.
At the Makinde Division, a police
source told our correspondent that
the suspect was one of the patrol van
drivers, but he had not come to work
since the day of the incident.
The source added that Lucky, who was
believed to have also stabbed himself,
was in an undisclosed hospital
receiving treatment.
The Lagos State Police Public
Relations Officer, DSP Kenneth
Nwosu, when contacted promised to
get back to our correspondent on the
matter, but he had yet to do so as of
press time.
Meanwhile, PUNCH Metro learnt that
the corpse of the baby had been
deposited at a morgue in Yaba, Lagos.