In a crime of anger and passion, Mr Igbokwe was said to have killed Mr Olatundun after he caught him having sex with his wife at their matrimonial home. He apparently committed the offence at about 12am at Peace Lodge on Itura Street, Awa Ijebu in Ijebu-North Local Government Area of Ogun State.
Mr Igbokwe and his 28-year-old wife were among 23 suspects paraded at the Ogun State Police Command headquarters, Eleweran, Abeokuta, on Thursday, for various offences ranging from murder to illegal possession of firearms and ammunition. Mr Igbokwe, who said he was a businessman, explained that he had returned from a trip to Onitsha and met Victor on top of his wife on their matrimonial bed.
He said he picked a machete in the toilet and cut the victim in the neck and hand, leadfing to Mr Olatundun dying on the way to the hospital. According to Mr Igbokwe, who deals in electronics, he was born in Ago-Iwoye in Ogun State.
“I travelled to Onitsha on July 25 and when I came back on July 27, I met a man inside my room making love to my wife. Then we started fighting but the man was stronger than me, so when I saw he could overpower me, I got a cutlass in my toilet and dealt him blows in the hand and neck but on the way to the hospital, the fuel in the car finished and he died," Mr Igbokwe added.
Expressing regret, Mr Igbokwe said he committed the crime due to anger, adding that he never meant to kill the victim. He claimed that he had never met Mr Olatundun before, saying he also never suspected that his wife was having an extra-marital affair with anyone.
Mr Igbokwe and his wife, Juliet, have three children aged nine, seven and five. Juliet, who sobbed intermittently, said her alleged lover had been pressurising her for a relationship for some time.
She explained that she had always told him she was married but the victim never gave up until he ended up at their matrimonial home on that night. Juliet, who said she sold snuff, said Victor was her supplier and he pestered her for six months before she finally gave in, adding she suspected that the deceased used a charm on her, as she could not explain how it all happened.
“He had been disturbing me that he wanted to marry me but I said I was married. On the day of the incident, I really can’t say if he used a charm on me as all I know is that he called me that he wanted to see me and I told him not to come and when he came, I didn’t know what happened," Juliet added.
Juliet, who claimed that she got married to her husband in 2005, said he did not take good care of her and the children. She said their marriage had been turbulent and fraught with fights and quarrels and each time there was a fight, her husband would leave the house for months.
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