by Damilola Jagun

An argument between a couple over money has led to the wife stabbing the husband to death.

The incident which saw 27-year-old Folashade Sodiya kill her husband, 39-year-old Jude Igbinedor around 2 am, occurred on Wednesday, 12 November, in the Ikorodu area of Lagos State.

They pair who had reportedly been together for seven years, got married without approval of their parents and started living together two years ago.

A neighbour, Busola Adewunmi, explained that the couple had only recently relocated to the area, and had only spent about five days in their single room apartment when the murder happened.

She said: “They packed into this house penultimate Saturday morning, around 5 am, 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.”

Another resident recounted that when the police arrived at the scene, they met the suspect on the floor with her one-year-old 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.”

A police source said the couple had been having a number of 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.”

The Police spokesperson, Lagos State Command, DSP Kenneth Nwosu, confirmed the incident. He said, “At about 1.15 am 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.”

Nwosu disclosed that the case had been transferred to State Criminal Investigation Department for further investigation. The deceased’s corpse has since been taken to the mortuary, while the suspect is being detained at the Owutu Police Station.

Kolapo Olapoju