“Men go through a lot” –Man makes case for husband who strangled his pregnant wife to death for not opening the gate on time
Ikechukwu Obiora made the news yesterday after he k#lled his wife because she delayed in opening the gate for him when he returned home.
The man got married to Ebere Uzuegbunam, in August last year and strangled her to death on March 2, 2023, barely seven months after their wedding.
He confessed to the crime after he was summoned by his in-laws to explain what killed their daughter.
According to reports, the couple got married in August 2022, and were expecting their first child before the incident happened.
Admitting to the crime, Ikechukwu reportedly told his in-laws that, “I returned home in the morning of March 2, 2023, and was knocking at the gate, but my wife did not open immediately.
In that anger, I started shouting at her. I first sl@pped and h#t her from the gate to the house before angrily gr@bbing her on the neck and str@ngling her to d£ath.
I couldn’t believe what happened because I never expected that such actions would lead to her d£ath.
I eventually abandoned the corpse and left out of fear and confusion, after confiding in few persons who I sought advice on what to do.
It was later in the evening that my mother reached out to my wife’s family members.”
Reacting to the news, a Facebook user with name Ikpeazu Chinedu Bright said the husband probably didn’t know that grabbing his wife’s neck would kill her.
Chinedu added that women need to be counselled to stay focused in their marriages so as not to push their husbands to physically assault them out of anger.
Using his own marriage as an example, he explained that his wife spends a lot of time on her phone and doesn’t cook on time which annoys him sometimes.
He said if he one day loses his temper and be@ts her up, he would be labelled a beast without people around knowing his wife incited the attack. He concluded his comment by saying, “Men go through a lot”.
