How man attempted to pluc-k out wife’s eyes in Abia – eyewitness| Read Details
One Mr Lawrence Uzor, an aluminium worker from Umuchieze in Bende LGA of Abia state, has been arrested for allegedly matcheting his wife and attempting to pluc-k out her eyes.
The incident happened on Sunday, September 1, at the couple’s residence, Adiele Estate in Umueze Ibeku in Umuahia North LGA.
According to the couple’s landlady, Mrs. Lovejane Nwiwu, who witnessed the incident;
“About 10 pm on Saturday, I heard the man shouting ‘Odogwu, Odogwu (mighty, mighty)’. I was worried as I had not heard the man and his wife, Amarachi Lawrence praying like that.
“I started praying for them. After that. I couldn’t sleep up to about 12 am and was restless. At about 1 am, the wife, who is a teacher with one of the foremost private schools in the Umuahia and aged 38 years started shouting, ‘Mummy, I have been kill-ed’. I opened my door, came out peeped through their bedroom window and saw the man pressed down on the wife with a knif-e in his hands.
“I started pushing on people’s gates and calling out to Umueze people, but nobody came out or responded. After all, my attempts to call neighbours to come and nobody answered me, I went to their parlour door and started knocking on the door and suddenly, he opened the door while holding the knife and tried giving me cu-ts on the head but I defended my head with my hand and he cut me at the hand and further slashed the kn-ife at my face that incidentally cut me at the mouth and many of my upper teeth came out.
“I ran into my house and locked the door, while he ran outside, locked our gate and went to a neighbour’s house to tell them that he had kill-ed his wife and his landlord’s wife. While inside my room, I called my mother and my daughter, who then called a church neighbour and the community vigilance team who rushed to the neighbour’s house and apprehended him.”
Also the head of the community’s vigilantes group, Mr. Ambrose Jonah, said they got report that the culprit complained to his friend named Odogwu that his wife has been unable to get pregnant after one year of their marriage.
The said Odogwu took him to a prayer house in Aba, after which he returned, performed some sacrifices, and became abnormal.
This led to him reciting incantations and attempting to murder his wife.
Meanwhile the wife of the state governor, Mrs Priscilla Otti has on Monday, visited the victims hospitalised at Federal Medical Centre, FMC Umuahia.
Mrs Otti who frowned at the act, restated the need for the enforcement of laws against gender based viole-nce.
She assured that all necessary measures are being taken to ensure that the victims recover very well and also gets justice.
The First Lady stated;
” investigations are still in progress, the husband could not have acted alone, the state is dedicated to uncovering the truth, promising that everyone implicated will face the full weight of the law”.
Mrs Otti also made cash donation for the medical upkeep of the victims.
On if Mrs Uzor who is a private school teacher will see again, the director of nursing services FMC, Mrs. Onyemaobi Aisha said it will be determined after she recovers.
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