Woman Bathes Husband With Hot Water Over Breakfast
By Ofunaofu
Last Thursday morning at Gbagidi, Ijanikin
area of Lagos State, a housewife known as Iya
Deborah, reportedly emptied a bowl of hot water on
her husband, identified as Ajagadi.
Iya Deborah had complained bitterly after her
husband gave her N700, out of the N800 he had, to
prepare yam and sauce breakfast for the family.
She bought the yam, but emptied the boiling water
on her husband, who was fiddling with his phone in
the sitting room, waiting for his meal.
The couple have been married for eight years, has
four children, including a six-month-old baby.
A neighbour said: “I was in front of the compound
when I heard the victim screaming and his wife
running out of the compound as if the devil was
chasing her. Neighbours who were still in the
compound ran into their apartment only to see him
in pains.
“When we asked him what happened, he said his
wife poured hot water on him. We bought raw eggs
and honey which we poured on the burns, before
taking him to the hospital.”
Vanguard learned that angry neighbours later caught
Iya Deborah, and dragged her to the hospital.
When Vanguard visited the victim at Ademola
Hospital, he was still writhing in pains from burns
and blisters on his chest, face, right hand, and lap.
‘It’s the devil’
A nurse told Vanguard, on the condition of
anonymity:
“When the wife of the victim came to
the hospital, she kept saying that she did it because
the money her husband gave to her was too little.
She alleged that he has been cheating on her with
other women and keeps complaining that there was
no money, but keeps spending on his lovers.
Feeling a lot more remorseful, Iya Deborah, who is
currently undergoing interrogation at Ijanikin Police
Divisional Headquarters, said:
“I don’t know what
came over me; it is the devil’s handiwork.”
Vanguard gathered that the suspect once attacked a
neigh-bour in their former compound with hot
groundnut oil.
Source:vanguard
