A man simply identified as Abdulateef has been stabbed to death by his wife in Jattu, Etsako West Local Government of Edo State, South-South Nigeria.
The woman was said to have harmed him after he caught her with another man in their matrimonial home. The incident happened around 3am on Sunday.
Sources confirmed that the woman reportedly stabbed the deceased when he came home at about 3am and met her with another man in their bedroom.
According to the source: “The man was living with two wives in his house, but had to rent an apartment for his first wife in a different location to allow peace to reign while staying with the junior one in his house.”
He said the deceased visits the first wife and spends the night there but there has been a rumour that another man visits his second wife every night when he is not at home.
The source added that the deceased came home that night from his first wife’s rented apartment, only to meet a man with his junior wife in their bedroom. He allegedly got hold of the visitor and in the process, the woman stabbed him twice on his stomach apparently to pave way for the alleged lover’s escape and make it look like a robbery attack, and that the deceased died as a result of the injury.
The neighbours were furious and the quick arrival of the Police saved the suspect from being killed by a mob.
The suspect was subsequently arrested by the Police.
But efforts to get a reaction from the Edo State Police Command’s Public Relations Officer was unsuccessful as calls and text messages to his phone were not answered and replied to respectively.