A 33-year-old Okoye Gabriel is currently a guest at the Ikotun police Division in Lagos State for reportedly bathing his wife with acid for cheating on him.
Gabriel who hailed from Enugu State became furious when he discovered that his wife identified as Charity had dumped him for another man.
The incident happened at the famous Governor’s Road in Ikotun area of Lagos.
The victim, whom we learnt sustained various degrees of injuries is battling between life and death at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, LASUTH, Ikeja, while the estranged husband is currently cooling his heels at the police cell in Ikotun.
Insiders disclosed that Gabriel did the introduction to marry Charity at her family’s country home in Enugu State but brought her to Lagos without concluding the necessary marriage rites. They lived together as ‘couple’ and now have a kid.
It was gathered that trouble erupted between the once united couple last year when the husband claimed that his wife was seeing another man.
Charity severally denied the allegation but her husband refused to believe her.
When she was tired of the incessant accusation, she told her husband that there was no need to remain in the relationship that it was difficult to trust her any further. She took their only kid to their village and returned to Lagos to live on her own.
When Gabriel discovered that she was back in Lagos, he traced her to where she lives, begging her for reconciliation but the ex-wife remained adamant.
When all his efforts to win her back became futile, Gabriel allegedly got an acid and poured it on her face and other parts of her body.
Efforts to reach the Divisional Police Officers, CSP Akika were fruitless but sources at the station who confirmed the incident said the accused will soon be charged to court.
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