A 36-year-old housewife, Mrs Obiageli Oriuwa, who stabbed a
medical doctor, Ikechukwu Oriuwa, her husband’s younger brother,
to
death has been arraigned for murder at the State High Court, Igbosere,
Lagos State, western Nigeria.
The mother of four was
arraigned on Tuesday before Justice Raliatu Adebiyi of the State High
Court following the report of Directorate of Public Prosecution, DPP.
The DPP report indicted Obiageli and directed her to face trial over the death of Ikechukwu.
Obiageli
was remanded in prison custody at Kirikiri after she was charged before
a Lagos Magistrates’ court and her file was sent to DPP for advice.
The outcome of the DPP advice indicted her for willful murder of Ikechukwu.
Obiageli
allegedly stabbed the 37-year old medical doctor to death at their
family house at 52, Ladega Street, Ajegunle in Apapa, Lagos State during
an argument between them last year.
She was initially
arrested by the police at Tolu Division after the incident and the
matter was transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department,
SCID, Panti, Yaba, Lagos for further investigation.
Obiageli
allegedly stabbed her brother in-law because she wanted him out of his
father’s house. She is married to the doctor’s elder brother and they
both lived in the said house with their wives and children.
She
had been allegedly fighting him to leave the house with his family,
because she claimed that the house belonged to her husband, since he was
the first son of their father.
On the day the incident
happened, Obiageli allegedly got a knife and stabbed Ikechukwu on the
chest and he bled profusely and collapsed. He died before he was taken
to a hospital
A member of the victim’s family, Chinedu
Oriuwa, ealier alleged that it was not the first time Obiageli attempted
to kill Ikechukwu.
He said she had asked the doctor and his family to move out of the family house several times.
Chinedu
said though the matter was settled between them, Obiageli still
continued to nurse animosity against everybody in the house, including
their mother who has now travelled abroad.
When the matter came up on Tuesday, it was further adjourned till 8 July for trial.
Source: PM News
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