by Anike Jacobs

One Ikechukwu Anajekwu has been locked up in the Kirikiri Maximum Prison for beating his wife, Obiageli, to death over her inability to bear children.

According to the deceased family, Anajekwu had turned their daughter into a punching bag and it was on one of such beatings on January 19, 2015, that took the lady’s life.

Lamenting over his sister’s death, Obiageli’s brother told Telegraph thus: “When Ikechukwu came for Obiageli’s hand in marriage, he told us that he runs a restaurant in Brazil. After the marriage however, he was arrested for drug trafficking. He was imprisoned in Cameroon, but his wife waited patiently for him until he finished his term. Even while he was in prison, my sister said she used to send him money. It was after his return from prison that the marriage began to fall apart. Ikechukwu became violent and started beating his wife over any real or imagined slight. Our family invited them to the village. The man accused my sister of being a witch. He said she couldn’t give him a child after years of marriage. He also accused her of being responsible for his set back in business.”

May her soul rest.

Sola