Police Corporal crushes wife, stabs baby to death over N2000

A police corporal has killed his own baby and crushed his wife’s leg with his bus after an argument that ensued over a missing N2000. The corporal, Lucky Ikharia, is currently on the run after committing the crime on October 30, at their home in Kale Close, Mafoluku, Lagos.

Lucky, his wife, Dupe and the deceased baby. Photo Credit: PUNCH

Punch reports that Lucky, 34, attacked his wife, Dupe on the main road and also went home to stab her baby boy, ripping out his intestines.

According to the report, the 30-year-old wife, who survived the attack, said: “We got married and started living together around October 2013. We usually had quarrels and that was not the first time he would beat me up, and send me out of the house. But this incident started on Sunday, October 26. Lucky had initially kept N15, 000 with me.

“Then, on Sunday, he collected N5, 000 to repair the bus. Later I gave him the rest, only to realise it was N8, 000. So, he began to question where I kept the remaining N2000. But I knew that it was his nature to stir up trouble because he had a habit of keeping money with me and going again to take it.

So, we began to fight, and he asked me to leave the house. He did not allow me to take the child with me that day. I was sleeping in friends’ places until Thursday when I decided to go back home. I did not find my baby, and when I asked him, he threatened that if he met me in the house by evening, he would kill me, kill the baby and himself.”

Dupe said that she was on her way to her mother’s place in Mushin when a commercial bus swerved towards her path as she stood at Olorunshogo junction.

“The commercial bus was his bus. He was the only man inside. He hit me and I fell. Then he reversed and came over my legs again. I lost consciousness. That was the last thing I knew”, she said.

One of Dupe’s relatives, Mr. Segun Akiode, told the newspaper: that “on Friday, when we went to their apartment, we found the baby boy, stabbed in the belly and already dead on the floor. We have not told Dupe about his death yet. So, we went to report at the Akinpelu Police Division, and we were asked to describe the bus which hit Dupe. When we did, they said the bus was with them in the station, but the whereabouts of Lucky was still unknown”.

PUNCH