Favour Nweke, the woman who bathed her husband, Ekelediri Nwokekoro, with hot groundnut oil in Rivers State, has disclosed the reason for her action.
The woman confessed to committing the crime while being paraded by the Rivers State Police command at the command’s headquarters along Moscow Road, Port Harcourt.
Recall that NIGERIACRIME reported that Nweke perpetrated the act last Tuesday in Okehi, Etche Local Government Area of the state after a squabble with her husband.
The husband had told the police that his wife committed the crime due to his refusal to continue to allow her “rude and seductive” sister to continue to live in their apartment.
However, Nweke, while confessing to newsmen, linked her husband to a fraud, adding that it was the reason the man started behaving strangely.
She said she challenged her husband to tell her the truth about his involvement in a crime and his recent change in attitude and that triggered the squabble.
Narrating her side of the story, the wife said, “He will go out at about 2 o’clock in the night and will come back early in the morning. Sometimes he would go, and stay two or three days before coming back, then I asked him where are you even going?
“So his friend called me and asked if I had heard what was on the ground, I said ‘What is that?’ He said my husband and some people were involved in one illegal act. He said they called somebody from Abuja that the person should come and work in Etche, and that they have a contract to give to the person and when the person came they duped the person of N20 million.
“I said he didn’t tell me; that I was hearing this for the first time. I said ‘no wonder this guy has been acting strange, planning on how to travel and go to one African country.’ So this is the reason.
“So when he came back, I grabbed him and said this is what I heard and I confronted him but he refused and we quarrelled. We ended it that day. I then asked him what he did with his own share of the money. I heard some people bought land with their own, so what did you use your own to do?
“As we were dragging that issue that morning, he hit me, I ran into the kitchen with that oil and I poured it on him. That was how it happened.”
While pleading for forgiveness for her action, Nweke, denied the allegations that she was involved in extramarital affairs prior to the incident.
“I feel bad. Had I known that this thing would turn out like this I would not have done it to him. I will just go to my place and stay. I am begging for Nigerians, you people should forgive me,” she added.
Meanwhile, the Rivers State Commissioner of Police, Emeka Nwonyi assured citizens that the suspect would be prosecuted and made to face the consequences of her action.
“I can assure you that the law will catch up with her and anybody who tries to take the laws into their hands, will be made to face the necessary sanctions,” Nwonyi said.