A middle aged man, Amos Ogbo is now cooling off his heels in detention
over the alleged killing of his 7months pregnant wife on Christmas day.
The incident occured around Eliozu, Obio-Akpor Local government area of Rivers State.
The
woman, according to eyewitness accounts, died of internal bleeding
after her husband, Ogbo pelted a stone on her ribs when she tried to
escape from a fight.
The eyewitness said Ogbo, who was under the
influence of alcohol on Christmas day, started with beating his wife
before using the stone.
“Neighbours were trying to separate them
but the man refused to stop. When the woman tried to run away, the man
stoned his wife and the woman fell. Immediately, she started loosing
breath. By the time they got to the hospital, she had died,” the
eyewitness narrated.
Spokesman of the Rivers State Police
Command, DSP Nnamdi Omoni who said the stone used by the man has been
kept as an exhibit, added that the
suspect has been transferred to the State CID.
DSP
Omoni disclosed that, “The Commissioner of Police has ordered
investigation into the matter. The homicide department are on it.
“The good thing is that the man has not denied the incident but he is claiming that he doesn’t know what came over him.”
DAILY
POST reports that Amos Ogbo who rides tricycle, popularly called Keke
around Eliozu in Port Harcourt, has 3 children with his late wife.
He
told newsmen at the Police Command that, “I didn’t know that the stone
will kill her. When the thing happened, I was trying to carry her but
she was too heavy and nobody came to help me. I wanted to take her to
the hospital when she fell but as I tried to stand, they will slap me
and hit me with things.
“By the time we eventually got to the
hospital she had died. I don’t know what happened to me. I didn’t know
what to do. I was begging my wife not to leave me.”
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