Okada ban lead man to kills wife with pestle in Anambra

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TRAGEDY struck at number 2 Umudioka street Ngbuka Nkpor, in Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra state, where a man, Mr James Nworah killed his wife at the early hours of Monday.

Tribune Online learnt that the compound, a three storey building where the couple was living on the ground floor, people were seen standing in groups discussing the incident.

From their discussions, it was gathered also that the couple who were blessed with five children, three boys and two girls, recently packed into the compound.

Some of the sympathisers who spoke with our correspondent including Messrs Emeka Okafor Chinedu Offorjeli and Celina Nwumeh disclosed that the man, Mr James Nworah from Izzi in Abakiliki, Ebonyi state is alleged to be mentally unstable and was once a commercial motorcyclist, affected by recent Okada ban.

They maintained that the couple were living peacefully and were into pap making (Akamu) business and that the incident happened at about 2 am when they have finished sieving the pap they would sell the following day.

According to them, the wife, Mrs Jennifer Nworah went into sleep when the husband came in frustrated and pound her on the head with a pestle.

It was again gathered that the man called his brother and told him that he killed his wife before he was arrested by the police.

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The five children were kept with neighbours and one of them little Master Peter Nworah said they were asleep when the incident happened and did not know what really transpired.

Meanwhile the man is now in custody at Ogidi Police Station where the Divisional Police Officer, CSP Mark Ijarafu confirmed the incident adding that the man would be taken to the State CID.

However, the remains of the late Mrs Jennifer Nworah have been deposited at the mortuary.

Reacting to the development the chairman Nigerian Red Cross Society Idemili North chapter Engineer Uchenna Tagbo decried the rate at which this kind of crime is perpetrated in Nigeria, stressing the need for people to be prayerful and reorder their mindsets for the future generation.