[size=21pt]Life, so cheap[/size] [size=15pt]Man dies fighting wife over N50[/size]
[size=17pt]senseless anger[/size]
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By Vincent Ukpong Kalu
Saturday, September 12, 2009

The high poverty level and excruciating hardship in the country re-echoed last Saturday at Iyankatan Street, Kuje Amuwo, when a young man of 28, Austin Anthony, died while beating his wife, Grace over N50 feeding money.

Austin was a factory hand at a sachet water producing company. He lost his job when the company closed shop because of unfavourable business climate. Austin recently got another job as security guard in one company at Monkey Village, Kirikiri.

Grace is nursing a baby of about four month old.
The anaemic frames of Grace and her baby reveal that they are passing through unbearable hardship.

Her marriage with Austin is what is called 'Lagos marriage', that is, a relationship between two consenting male and female adults who because of accommodation or other social pressures start living together as husband and wife and procreate. The marriage is usually for convenience and the strings of love may not be attached to it.

In this case of Austin and Grace, neither of the couple knew the relations of the other.
The deepest they knew about each other was that the late husband knew his wife is from Ishan in Edo State while the wife knew that her husband was from Agbor in Delta State.

The pigsty makeshift one-room plank house on a swampy environment where they live measures less than 6ft by 8ft with a mattress on the floor and clothes hanging on the walls and kitchen utensils on the floor will make one shed tears over the level of hardship in town.

Trouble was said to have started last Saturday morning when Austin started querying his wife on what she did with the N50 he left. His wife's explanation that she used it to buy milk for herself and the baby didn't go down well with Austin and he started beating her.
According to the neighbours, Austin was in the habit of beating his wife over frivolous and little misunderstanding.

On that fateful day, Saturday, he inflicted wounds on his wife while beating her. Her lady ran out to avoid more punishment. The back was lacerated as a result of the beating.
Austin slipped and fell while trying to grab her. At first, neighbours thought he fainted and tried to revive him to avail. He instantly passed on.

From where the wife had gone to take cover, she was said to have sent emissaries to entreat her husband for forgiveness.

The people returned to tell her that the music had changed and her husband had died. Since their relationship was the type made in Lagos, how to get in touch with the relations of the deceased and that of his wife became another tough task.

The police arrested Grace with her four-month-old baby and they are now in the homicide section of the State Criminal Investigation Department, Panti, Yaba.

http://sunnewsonline.com/webpages/features/living/2009/sept/12/living-12-09-2009-001.htm

what a pity! naija has long way to go!

Hmmmmm i equally wept

at least no more beatings and pounding

Why would dy arrest her. She didn't kill d man, He killed himself b'cos of 50 box.

~Sissy~:

at least no more beatings and pounding

should be beating himself in hell now

nellaluv:

Why would dy arrest her. She didn't kill d man, He killed himself b'cos of 50 box.

that is nigeria for you. the NPF must collect bribe from her

The police are a disgrace. For what have they arrested the woman and her baby? It can't be for money, her man died while beating her over 50 naira.


Alarm needs to be raised about this. They only want to rape her.

Beaf:

The police are a disgrace. For what have they arrested the woman and her baby? It can't be for money, her man died while beating her over 50 naira.


Alarm needs to be raised about this. They only want to rape her.

how do you raise alarm about things like this?

weeping