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What started as a mild argument over money turned tragic between a
couple in the Ikorodu area of Lagos State after the wife stabbed her
husband to death. And according to
Punch, the incident happened on Wednesday, last week, on TK Balogun Street, Igbo Olomu, Ishawo.
The woman, Folashade Sodiya, 27, killed her husband, Jude Igbinedor, 39, around 2am after a heated argument over money.
They were said to have been in a seven-year relationship, though the union had not been consented to
by the parents. They reportedly got married without
approval of their parents and started living together two years ago. The
suspect, an indigene of Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, had a
one-year-old baby for the deceased, who was an Edo State indigene.
When PUNCH visited the area on Tuesday, a neighbour, Busola Adewunmi,
explained that the couple had only recently relocated to the area.
Adding that the couple had barely spent five days in their single room
apartment when tragedy struck.
Adewunmi described them as gentle and respectful tenants, who complied
with the rules of the house, and that Folashade was, however,
temperamental while her husband smoked. She said:
“They packed into this house penultimate Saturday morning, around 5am,
and the incident happened on Wednesday morning. On Tuesday, the wife had
asked someone to lend her N1,000 pending when her husband would come
back from his mother’s place where he had gone to. The man arrived and
even bought vegetables and other food stuffs for his family. In the
evening, he came out and also washed the pots they used to cook that
day.
It was around 2am that things went sore. I learnt she said he was the
first to use a hanger to hit her before she also stabbed him in the
chest.”
After Jude was stabbed, Folashade called for help. However, Igbinedor
gave up shortly after. The neighbours were said to have alerted
policemen from the Owutu Police Division.
Another resident, who spoke to PUNCH Metro, said when the police arrived
at the scene, they met the suspect on the floor with her baby in her
hands. The resident, who declined identification, said:
“She had become remorseful by then. When the police picked the wrong
knife as exhibit, she told them she used a stainless knife in killing
her husband, which she also fetched for them. It was said that she
wanted to take part of the money the husband brought from her mother to
offset the money she borrowed, but he declined. She never denied killing
him. But she said he was the first to attack her and she only wanted to
scare him with the knife.”
PUNCH Metro gathered that the deceased’s corpse had been taken to the
mortuary, while the suspect was detained at the Owutu Police Station. A
police source said the suspect and the deceased had been having silent
quarrels before the incident. The source said:
“No one can tell what exactly caused this one. The woman, however, said
her grouse with Jude was that he always gave her the impression he did
her a favour by letting her have his child. She said she was holding the
knife that night to scare him and did not know when he rushed at her
and the knife entered his chest.”
When PUNCH contacted a relative of the deceased, he declined comment,
referring them to the family lawyer whose contact could not be obtained
as of press time.
The Police Public Relations Officer, Lagos State Command, DSP Kenneth Nwosu, however, confirmed the incident. He said:
“At about 1.15am on November 13, one Jude Igbinedor was stabbed on the
chest by his wife, Folashade Shodiya. The victim died on the spot, while
his corpse has been taken to the Ikorodu General Hospital morgue for
autopsy.”
He added that the case had been transferred to State Criminal Investigation Department for further investigation
