BENIN—A
44-year-old native doctor, simply identified as Owe, has been allegedly stabbed
to death in Benin City.
The victim was said to have been
stabbed in the chest by a lady during a domestic brawl in his residence,
opposite Use Market Road Junction, Upper Siluko Road, Benin City last weekend.
The lady (names withheld) was
said to be a friend of the victim’s second wife and a guest in that house. She
is now helping the Police in their investigations.
The Public Relations Officer for
Edo Police Command, DSP Stephen Onwochei, who confirmed the story, said the
police had commenced full scale investigation into the case.
Onwochei disclosed that the
attacker turned herself in to the police after the dastardly act.
The shrine of the deceased native
doctor suffered desertion when Vanguard visited last weekend.
It was gathered that trouble
started on the faithful Friday when the deceased did not meet his second wife
at home after he returned from his third wife’s residence where he spent the
night.
She was said to have gone to
Lagos Street for shopping.
Sources hinted that the
intervention of other persons who were in the apartment as the violence raged
could not placate his anger, but got extended to his sister in-law, instead.
Apparently provoked by the
deceased, the lady allegedly ran to the kitchen, picked a knife with which she
stabbed the native doctor, her friend’s husband, to death.
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