After allegedly bathing her husband, Ekelediri Nwankwo Nwala, in boiling groundnut oil over a minor quarrel, Hope Nwala, a woman from Rivers, is on the run.
The event happened in the Okehi neighbourhood of the Etche Local Government Area of Rivers State.
Sources claim that Mrs. Hope Nwala burned her husband with boiling groundnut oil while he was sleeping.
It was learned that the couple had been fighting within their home before to the fatal event.
The victim, Mr. Nwankwo, who is currently fighting for his life, claimed that his wife refused to let his wife’s younger sister leave their home because she was wearing inappropriately.
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He continued by saying that his wife had attacked him and given him a hot oil bath while he was asleep.
No young guy will put up with behaviour like that, so I informed my wife’s younger sister to leave my house because of the way she’s started dressing and the way she uses my bed even when I’m around. However, my wife has refused to let the younger sister leave.
I gave her younger sister transportation for two thousand naira to go home so that I can actually understand what is going on in my house, but my wife got upset, while I went to bed to sleep, and she used boiled groundnut oil on me before starting to hit me with harmer, he claimed. “I also saw my wife alone with one tall black guy in the shop I rented for her, not that he is in for business, he followed my wife and sister here and there,” he added.
At the time of publication, the State Police Command has not yet commented on the incident, but from what we’ve learned, it has been reported to the Okehi Divisional Police Headquarters in Etche.
