One Mr. Ikechukwu Anajekwu, has been locked up in the Kirikiri
Maximum Prison for beating his wife, Obiageli, to death over her
inability to bear him children.
According to the deceased family, Anajekwu had turned their daughter
into a punching bag and it was on one of such beatings on January 19,
2015, that the lady slumped and died.
Lamenting over his sister’s death, Obiageli’s brother told Telegraph thus “When
Ikechukwu came for Obiageli’s hand in marriage, he told us that he runs
a restaurant in Brazil. After the marriage however, he was arrested for
drug trafficking. He was imprisoned in Cameroon, but his wife waited
patiently for him until he finished his term. Even while he was in
prison, my sister said she used to send him money. It was after
his return from prison that the marriage began to fall apart. Ikechukwu
became violent and started beating his wife over any real or imagined
slight. Our family invited them to the village. The man accused
my sister of being a witch. He said she couldn’t give him a child after
years of marriage. He also accused her of being responsible for his set back in business.”
May her soul rest.
