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By NGOZI UWUJARE

ONYEKACHI Anele, 36, is probably gnashing his teeth in regret, in the custody of the police at the headquarters of the State Criminal Investigation Department, SCID, of the Imo Police Command, Owerri.

As he ponders over what the future holds for his four-year-old daughter and one-year-old son and the stepson who is at the centre of the fate that has befallen the family, he is equally learning, in a hard and unfortunate way, the meaning of what the bible says: “The devil goes about like a roaring lion seeking who it may devour.”

Anele who lived with his family in Obibiezena in Owerri North Local Government Area, is also wishing that he had restrained himself when the devil pushed his wife to stir up anger in him, not long after he returned home from vigil held at Jesus Disciples Fellowship.

Sunday Sun learnt from the Imo Commissioner of Police, Mr. Taiwo Lakanu that trouble began on June 1, 2016, when Anele’s wife, 32-year-old Chikodi, asked him to give her son from an earlier marriage, N100 to take to school.

Taking up the tale, Anele said: “I got married to my late wife Chikodi Anele over four years ago. She had a son for another man before we got married. We have been living together in peace. We have two children. Our first child, a girl, is four years old while the second child is a boy, who is just one year old.”

He continued: “On May 31, 2016, I went to my church, Jesus Disciples Fellowship, where we had a vigil. I came back around 5: 30 am and started playing Christian music. My wife came to where I was and said that I should give my stepson N100 naira to go to school. I told her that I had no money with me.

“You see, my late wife was hypertensive; she became very angry that I did not give my stepson N100. She started to insult me. I got angry and slapped her.

She slapped me in return. I was shocked by her effrontery and slapped her a second time. She fell down and fainted.

“I rushed her to City Hospital, Nekede. On getting there, the doctor checked her and confirmed that she was dead. I went to the nearby police station at Umuguma and reported the matter to the police and they arrested me,” he said.

Promptly, the case was transferred from Umuguma Police Station to State Criminal Investigation Department, Owerri, the Imo State capital, where he has been in detention as investigation into the matter was in progress.

The officer-in-charge of the homicide section of the SCID, Supol Innocent Obi, further revealed that family of the deceased had not yet been to the police to know the state of the matter. He stated that Anele had not yet informed them.

In anguish, Anele, told Sunday Sun: “I love my wife. I had no intention to kill her. It was misunderstanding and annoyance that prompted me to slap her and she died. Up till now, it looks like a dream and a mystery to me.

When Sunday Sun visited the compound where Anele lived with his family before the unfortunate incident happened, his neighbours were still in shock.

One of them, Chukudi Eneka said, “They both loved each other; they were a good family. The devil just caused this thing. Suddenly we heard them quarrelling. The husband slapped the wife and the wife slapped him back. The hus­band then slapped her again. She fell down and fainted. We thought it was a joke. When she was taken to the hospital, the doctor said she was dead. We are shocked over the incident.”
In what appears like a case of Anele being abandoned to his fate, the Deputy Commissioner of Po­lice in-charge of the State Criminal Investigation Department, Mr. Hafiz Inuwa said that the kinsmen of Anele had not been to see him in the custody of the police, but adding that the corpse of the deceased was still in mortuary.

http://sunnewsonline.com/man-slaps-wife-to-death/

Alrite, a deterrent to men out there... never hit ur wife! I believe the consequences are just plain..

So sad. See devil work

But why

Women may nag, frustrate you and be a pain in the ass atimes. They are not meant to be beaten. There are many ways of dealing with a woman that are even more effective than beating. Women are FRAGILE, fragile than they look.

Violence is bad

END TIME SLAP

A sad news indeed,


God abeg save us men from this type of temptations and its consequences.

the best is for him to be silence

That's why I hate woman.
They will frustrate you to undo..

They are never contempted..
No matter the good you did for years,the day you default...women will forget the past.

God will set you free young man

Enroll this man in the military

Anger they say is small madness.

RIP to her.

The guy should be in prison for a long time or punished by death.

Violence against women. Some men are animals. Becareful ladies.

RIP.

"I slapped her ,she slapped me back and I slapped her again and she fainted" iranu,he probably didn't want to give her the 100box cos the boy wasn't his son..but the woman no try...I think if you are a woman that has a child from an early marriage, try your best to carry the most responsibility of that child .while your husband does the most for the children u gave him..its just common sense,not every man will have the grace to overlook the fact that its another mans child...rip to the dead sha

End time slap

Man needs to be careful these days cos women may at times be the pain in the neck. Things are changing especially now that women are demanding for gender equality. No woman wants to give in to any man again.

Killer slap ni yen

Poverty is a bastard

Imagine N100?
Common N100 killed this woman,
The slap was just the weapon!

dayummmm he slap the taste out dat woman mouth. the slap of death

Sijo01:
End time slap

Literally.

mrnuur:
So sad. See devil work

Where bro?

lytech1:
That's why I hate woman.
They will frustrate you to undo..

Wow.. sorry about your mother.

Ordinary slap don send her to her early grave,hand wey onyekachi take dey tap palmwine why she no die?anyways R.I.P to her.

Reminds me of a song I heard some time ago. It was about a man who hit his wife because she told him he keeps his teeth like that of a goat. Woman died after the slap, man starts regretting, saying if he had known, he'd have kept his teeth like a goat.

Angry reaction

What an unfortunate situation

you need palms surgery

He is definitely a BAD CHRISTIAN. How can u lay hands on your wife


May the dead rest in peace.