A police corporal, named Lucky Ikharia,
was on October 30, allegedly used a bus to crush the legs of his wife, Dupe.
Having left her for dead, Lucky went home where he allegedly stabbed their
baby, David, to death, ripping out the toddler’s intestines.
Still in a rage, the policeman turned
the knife on himself in an attempt to take his own life. Lucky and his
wife survived but both were in critical conditions.
According to PUNCH the incident occurred at the family’s rented apartment in Kale
Close, Mafoluku, Oshodi last week.
It was gathered that four days prior to
the incident,34-year-old Lucky, ho hails from Sabon Gida Ora, Edo State, had a
quarrel with his wife, Dupe over N2,000, after which he reportedly sent her
packing.
The policeman, who is attached to the
Makinde Police Division, Oshodi, Lagos had also ‘seized’ their only child from
Dupe as a means of ‘punishing’ her.
Around 8pm on
the day of the attack, Dupe, a 30-year-old indigene of Abeokuta, Ogun State,was
heading for her mother’s house in Mushin unknown to her that Lucky was waiting
in a bus to attack her.
It was learnt that on getting to
Olorunshogo junction, Lucky pursued his wife with the bus, crushing her legs in
the process.
Leaving her for dead, Lucky was said to
have fled the scene while passersby initially thought the attack was random.
However, after Dupe was rushed to a
nearby hospital on same evening for treatment and had regained consciousness
the following morning, she explained that the man who drove the bus which
crushed her legs was her own husband.
Unknown to Dupe, after her husband
attacked her, he reportedly drove back to their apartment where he stabbed
their child, David, in the belly, before fleeing the residence.
Lucky’s co-tenants and Dupe’s relatives
who discovered the baby’s corpse on Friday morning, reported the incident at
the Akinpelu Police Division. It was also gathered that the knife and the bus
had both been recovered.
When PUNCH Metro visited the hospital where Dupe was receiving treatment on Monday,the
woman, who could hardly speak. She said the cause of the fight was a sum of
N2000 which Lucky claimed she stole.
She said, “We got married and started
living together around October 2013. We usually had quarrels and that was not
the first time he would beat me up, and send me out of the house. But this
incident started on Sunday, October 26. Lucky had initially kept N15,000 with
me.
“Then, on Sunday, he collected N5, 000
to repair the bus. Later I gave him the rest,only to realise it was N8,000.
So,he began to question where I kept the remaining N2000. But I knew that it
was his nature to stir up trouble because he had a habit of keeping money with
me and going again to take it.
“So, we began to fight, and he asked me
to leave the house.He did not allow me to take the child with me that day.I was
sleeping in friends’ places until Thursday when I decided to go back home.I did
not find my baby and when I asked him, he threatened that if he met me in the
house by evening, he would kill me, kill the baby and himself.”
Dupe said she was then called by her
mother to come to their family house in Mushin, adding that as she got on her
way, and was at the Olorunshogo junction, a commercial bus swerved to her path
and hit her several times.
She said, “The commercial bus was his
bus. He was the only man inside. He hit me and I fell. Then he reversed and
came over my legs again. I lost consciousness. That was the last thing I knew.”
Punch learnt from one of the nurses
that Dupe might be admitted in the hospital for about two months and might
spend over N600,000 for treatment owing to the severity of the attack.
One of Dupe’s relatives, Mr. Segun
Akiode, said that the family had yet to inform Dupe of her son’s death. He
added that the family also did not know Lucky’s whereabouts.
He said, “I was called on the phone on
Thursday evening that my sister was knocked down at Olorunshogo junction. When
I got there, I met her in a pool of blood. So, we rushed her to a hospital. It
was already around 9.30pm.
“On Friday, when we went to their apartment,
we found the baby boy, stabbed in the belly and already dead on the floor. We
have not told Dupe about his death yet. So, we went to report at the Akinpelu
Police Division, and we were asked to describe the bus which hit Dupe. When we
did, they said the bus was with them in the station, but the whereabouts of
Lucky were still unknown.”
Lucky is believed to have also stabbed
himself and was in an undisclosed hospital receiving treatment.
The Lagos State Police Public Relations
Officer, DSP Kenneth Nwosu, when contacted promised to get back to punch on the
matter, but he had yet to do so as of press time.
The corpse of the baby had been
deposited at a morgue in Yaba, Lagos.
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