MAN SLAPS WIFE TO
DEATH
— 19th June 2016
By NGOZI UWUJARE
ONYEKACHI Anele, 36, is
probably gnashing his
teeth in regret, in the
custody of the police at
the headquarters of the
State Criminal
Investigation Department,
SCID, of the Imo Police
Command, Owerri.
As he ponders over what the future holds for his four-
year-old daughter and one-year-old son and the
stepson who is at the centre of the fate that has
befallen the family, he is equally learning, in a hard and
unfortunate way, the meaning of what the bible says:
“The devil goes about like a roaring lion seeking who it
may devour.”
Anele who lived with his family in Obibiezena in Owerri
North Local Government Area, is also wishing that he
had restrained himself when the devil pushed his wife
to stir up anger in him, not long after he returned home
from vigil held at Jesus Disciples Fellowship.
Sunday Sun learnt from the Imo Commissioner of
Police, Mr. Taiwo Lakanu that trouble began on June 1,
2016, when Anele’s wife, 32-year-old Chikodi, asked him
to give her son from an earlier marriage, N100 to take
to school.
Taking up the tale, Anele said: “I got married to my late
wife Chikodi Anele over four years ago. She had a son
for another man before we got married. We have been
living together in peace. We have two children. Our first
child, a girl, is four years old while the second child is a
boy, who is just one year old.”
He continued: “On May 31, 2016, I went to my church,
Jesus Disciples Fellowship, where we had a vigil. I came
back around 5: 30 am and started playing Christian
music. My wife came to where I was and said that I
should give my stepson N100 naira to go to school. I
told her that I had no money with me.
“You see, my late wife was hypertensive; she became
very angry that I did not give my stepson N100. She
started to insult me. I got angry and slapped her.
She slapped me in return. I was shocked by her
effrontery and slapped her a second time. She fell
down and fainted.
“I rushed her to City Hospital, Nekede. On getting there,
the doctor checked her and confirmed that she was
dead. I went to the nearby police station at Umuguma
and reported the matter to the police and they arrested
me,” he said.
Promptly, the case was transferred from Umuguma
Police Station to State Criminal Investigation
Department, Owerri, the Imo State capital, where he
has been in detention as investigation into the matter
was in progress.
The officer-in-charge of the homicide section of the
SCID, Supol Innocent Obi, further revealed that family
members of the deceased had not yet been to the
police to know the state of the matter. He stated that
Anele had not yet informed them.
In anguish, Anele, told Sunday Sun: “I love my wife. I
had no intention to kill her. It was misunderstanding
and annoyance that prompted me to slap her and she
died. Up till now, it looks like a dream and a mystery to
me.
When Sunday Sun visited the compound where Anele
lived with his family before the unfortunate incident
happened, his neighbours were still in shock.
One of them, Chukudi Eneka said, “They both loved
each other; they were a good family. The devil just
caused this thing. Suddenly we heard them quarrelling.
The husband slapped the wife and the wife slapped him
back. The husband then slapped her again. She fell
down and fainted. We thought it was a joke. When she
was taken to the hospital, the doctor said she was dead.
We are shocked over the incident.”
In what appears like a case of Anele being abandoned
to his fate, the Deputy Commissioner of Police in-
charge of the State Criminal Investigation Department,
Mr. Hafiz Inuwa said that the kinsmen of Anele had not
been to see him in the custody of the police, but adding that the corpse of the deceased was still in mortuary.
Source: sunnewsonline.com/man-slaps-wife-to-death/

. so sad... la tagdab (don't be angry) olways try and control your anger.... very unfortunate

Women and anger. But the man should controlled his anger naw,especially when he was just coming from vigil.he should know the devil is at work already

Slap of life