“I never regret killing my wife. She has denied me education. I am a farmer in Angwan Sarki village and I am struggling to have a better life.”
These are the confessions of Joseph Okala, in his 20s, who has been arrested by the Nasarawa police for allegedly his 18 year old wife, Helen Precious, in the presence of his mother-in-law because at Ninda village, Kokona Local Government Area, Nasarawa State.
It all happened when Joseph allegedly went to the village of his in-laws, where he learnt that his wife and mother-in-law had gone to the farm. He then went to his mother-in-law’s farm at Nindama village in Kokona LGA Nasarawa State, met his wife working with his mother-in-law and instantly shot her (his wife) in the presence of her mother and younger sister and then left the scene.
He was allegedly wearing a face mask when he shot his wife and wanted to escape before he was arrested by policemen attached to Garaku Police station.
The suspect, Joseph Okala admitted that he was the one who killed his wife, saying: “my wife denied me going to school. My father warned me against marrying her rather I should go to school.
“Since my late wife insisted that I must marry her. I have to deny my father and abandon my education to marry my late wife in 2013. I was blessed with one kid, a baby boy.
“My late wife has been pregnant for me but she would abort the pregnancy, she has done the abortion severally. It was the senior brother of my wife who came on December 25, 2015 and packed my wife’s luggage and took her away from my house, we have been quarrelling over the matter.”
The suspect, who hailed from Kokona Local Government Area of Nasarawa State, said that it was four months later after his late wife left his house.
“It was April 4, 2016 around 2:00pm I went to Nindama village, my wife’s mother’s village and met them in the farm; I went in anger and took my dane gun and shot my wife dead in the present of her mother and I wanted to escaped before the policemen arrested me.
“I never regret killing my wife. She has denied me education. I am a farmer in Angwan Sarki village and I am struggling to have a better life.”
The Commissioner of Police, Nasarawa State Police Command, Lawal Shehu, confirmed the incident which he said occurred on April 4, 2016 around 2 pm when
He said that the policemen in Garaku Police Station had recovered the dane gun Joseph used to shoot his wife.
This was even as the Police Public Relation Officer, ASP Numan Umaru Ismaila from Nasarawa Command, warned the public not to take laws into their hands but rather always report any grievance to the nearest Police Station.
He said that the case of Joseph Okala who killed his wife was culpable homicide.
A representative of the he family of the deceased, who gave his name simply as Garba said that the suspect had been maltreating the deceased long before he finally killed her, and demanded that justice, should be done.
“We sent her elder brother to pack her luggage from the husband’s house on December 25, 2015.
“Suddenly, we saw the husband in my mother’s farm with her wife and he shot her dead without a reason. We want justice to be done. The policemen have released our daughter’s corpse to us and we have buried her on April 8, 2016.”
The police commissioner said that the suspect Joseph Okala would be charged to court for culpable homicide after investigation had been concluded.
Source: Sunday Sun. [myad]