A man met his death on Valentine's day when his wife angrily pushed him off a storey building because he did not give her a valentine's day treat coupled with previous monetary issues.
The woman, identified as
Onyinyechi, who is a teacher in a private school, lived with her
husband in Adefowope Street, off Beach Road, Etegbin, in the Otto Awori
Local Council Development Area of Lagos before the unfortunate incident.
The incident which happened on Valentine's day has left neighbours and residents of the community saddened.
According to reports
gathered by Punch, a man, who claimed to be a close friend of the
deceased, insisted that the cause of the couple’s misunderstanding
bordered on plans for Valentine’s Day.
Speaking on the
condition of anonymity, he said, “George returned home in the evening of
Valentine’s Day, a time the wife felt was already too late to go for an
outing. She got angry and it resulted in a fight.”
Another source, who also
claimed to have a close relationship with the family, however, said the
cause of the fight was monetary issue.
He said, “A family
friend had given George money to give to his wife as gift for their
newborn baby. George did not only keep the money to himself, he also did
not tell his wife about it. Onyinyechi later met the man, who asked her
if she got the gift he sent through her husband. She was not only
surprised, but furious that George could keep such a thing from her. It
was in the process of asking him about it on the evening of Valentine’s
Day that the fight started.”
A neighbour, who also
spoke to Punch correspondent on the condition of anonymity, explained
that the incident happened around 4pm on Valentine’s Day.
She said, “On Saturday,
at about 4pm, my daughter rushed inside my apartment where I was
sleeping to wake me up that Iyawo (Onyinyechi) and her husband were
fighting upstairs.
“As she was still
explaining to me, I heard a sound of something falling. I rushed out
only to discover that it was my neighbour, George. I started screaming
for help and other neighbours rushed in to assist me. We got a tricycle
and rushed him to a hospital.
“The wife, however,
remained upstairs in her apartment. She didn’t bother to come down to
assist us, despite the fact that her seven-month-old daughter was
downstairs playing with my children. George was certified dead at the
hospital and we couldn’t take him to the mortuary without his family’s
consent, so, we brought him back home and called his family members.”
Another neighbour, who
identified herself as Mama Ifeoma, who was part of the people that took
George to the hospital, said the doctor discovered a cut in his head and
he claimed the injury could be as a result of an object that must have
been used to hit him on the head.
She said, “The doctor told us that George must have been dead before he was pushed down from the balcony.”
Onyinyechi has however traveled to her home town in Nnewi, Anambra State with her daughter.
The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Kenneth Nwosu, is yet to respond to enquiries on the incident.
The way some people carry Valentine for head is pathetic..Its not by force to give or receive a gift!
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