Like a scene from a horror movie, a police
corporal, Lucky Ikharia, allegedly used a bus to
crush the legs of his wife, Dupe on the 30th of
October in Lagos.
Having left her for dead, Lucky then 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 reports that the incident occurred at
the family’s rented apartment in Kale Close,
Mafoluku, Oshodi last week. Lucky and his wife
survived but both are currently in critical
conditions.
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.
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.
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.”
PUNCH 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, said
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 PUNCH 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 said
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 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.

imagine killing your own baby, just because u quarreled with his mother over 2k
that man deserves the death penalty

Imagine such a beautiful lady marrying such an insane hediot.
Some police men and soldiers are guilty of this form of insanity.

What kind of sad story is this?

Oh lord!

why do I feel like every news out of nigeria has more to it?

It's just sheer wickedness... he ended his son's life cos of #2000....he's outrightly sick!

This is the height of stupidity. You have money to buy gorgeous clothing such as that worn in the pix yet, you can kill for just N2000!

I have always known that many policemen in Lagos are insane. Very sad news.

Good to know "my people" are picking up some wife/child killing habits from the EAST AND WEST kingpins of domestic abuse.

Na by force to live for "Lehgus"?

What an UGLY DUDE! TWA!!!

Still keeping stats on WIFE/CHILD-KILLERS OF NIGERIA!


First prize : THE EAST!
Second prize : THE WEST!
Third prize: THE SOUTH!
Fourth prize: THE NORTH!

KWENU!!!! YAAAAAAH!!!!

The man should better say the real reason why he killed them both and not use 2000 naira as an excuse.....it's insane.

na wa!see wht poverty can cause!i REJECT POVERTY IJN.when d man don dey beat am b4,y she no comot!who dey marry policemen sef?

Poverty story.

Mtshewww

Eeyah.

The man has mental problem.

duperola:
na wa!see wht poverty can cause!i REJECT POVERTY IJN.when d man don dey beat am b4,y she no comot!who dey marry policemen sef?

There is acute poverty in our country.

How do some women find these animals?

And that wasn't the first time the crazy man beat her. Yet she returned for more beating. She even knew about his "character" but still remained in the relationship - and now is nothing but a dead Mrs
And I agree there's more to this story than meets the eye. It looks like a crime of passion. That so called missing N2,000 had nothing to do with the little boy.

Methinks the man found out that he isn't the biological father of the child, hence his blind rage.

RIP to the deceased. Sad, sad, story.

This was not the first time the attacker had beaten his wife, yet she returned.

I'm pretty sure a lot of people told her to "pray, endure, be patient, be respectful, smile when he's cursing you, it must be spiritual, wear something nice, don't ever ask him for anything, just take care of yourself and your kid but don't you ever dare neglect him, don't nag, infact don't say anything to him short of words of blessings, call a pastor, tell no-one, don't you dare leave that would make a feminist..."

And I'm 99% sure all those people are going to tell her her son is dead, then blame her for not protecting him.

Nigerian society is simply wonderful and makes so much sense :/