A 41-year-old man, Mr. Joseph Ajasa stabbed his wife, Toyin to death during a fight at Iyana-Ado Road in Owode, Yewa South Local Government Area of Ogun state.
Ajasa fled the scene afterwards, only for his dead body to be found five days later inside his farm dangling from a tree.
According to a neighbor who pleaded anonymity, Ajasa had received over a N100, 000 from a thrift cooperative and kept it in his wife’s possession.
When he asked her for it some weeks later, she could not produce it. She reportedly told him she had used the money to treat a health condition that arose after a recent beating he gave her.
Her explanation was said to have infuriated him and a fight ensued.
Another neighbor said the couple was fond of fighting each other and when the last fight broke out, they all thought it was one of the usual.
Mary, one their neighbours said the attention of the other neighbours was drawn when the fight started taking a turn for the worse. Unfortunately, before they could rush to the scene, the man had already stabbed his wife in several parts of her body.
Sources who allegedly witnessed the fight claimed it was the woman who brought the knife to attack her husband when she could no longer endure the severe beating from him. He then collected the knife from her and used it to stab her.
“We heard the man shouting at the woman, that she had been cheating on him. Everybody in the neighbourhood knew that they always quarrelled, but we never expected that this very one would lead to deaths. Whenever they fought, they would settle the matter even if nobody intervened. May be it was Satan that used the man, or the woman really offended him,” a neighbor said.
After the matter was reported to the police at Owode police station, they rushed to the scene, where they met the woman’s corpse, with the knife stuck in her thigh.
Ajasa’s immediate elder brother, Mr. Olaoluwa Ajasa, said he was still in shock from the incident. He stated that he was yet to come to terms with why his brother was involved in such a devilish act, adding that the double tragedy was a mystery too difficult for him to unravel.
He said: “It is something I cannot explain till date. It shook our family and we are still asking what could have led Joseph to kill his wife and also take his own life. I knew him well because we grew up together. He was not somebody that could kill a fellow human being for whatever offence committed against him. He was a gentleman that always minded his business. That is the reason I am shocked and confused about how everything played out. The two incidents were more of mysteries.”
Ajasa’s decaying body was buried in the farm where he killed himself, while his wife’s corpse had been released by the police to her family members. She has since been buried in her hometown in Ilesa, Osun State.
Domestic violence is one of the problems plaguing Nigerian society. A number of women have received serious injuries that landed them in the hospitals while some others have lost their lives.
Some months back, a 57-year-old man, Ikechukwu Anajekwu beat his wife to death for her inability to bear him children.
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