A middle aged woman, Obiageli Anajekwu, has been reportedly dead after she was alleged to have been beaten by her husband who had accused her of being a witch who had affected his business negatively.
According to Sun newspaper, husband to the deceased, Ikechukwu Anajekwu, 54, who pleaded not guilty to the crime explained to the police that his life has never been the same since getting married to his late wife, Obiageli.
He revealed that he is an international businessman who based abroad, Brazil precisely, with his foreign wife and kids but was advised to establish himself in Nigeria by a family member with the recommendation of him settling down with a Nigerian woman which they brought in person of his late wife.
In his testimony, “One of my relatives introduced Obiageli to me, that she is the perfect woman on earth. Sometime in 2013, we had a traditional marriage and I decided to stay around in Nigeria so that she can enjoy me a little. Suddenly, I realised that she is fetish especially when she did not conceive after six months. She accused everyone in my house of being the brain behind her childlessness. Meanwhile, the little business that I was doing in Nigeria started to crumble. I was finding it hard to make a living. I travelled down to Anambra and met a Reverend father who prayed for me. He told me that the cause of my misfortune was within my family. He asked me to return home and search my house. I came back in September and searched and discovered a mobile shrine in my wife’s bag. It had my pictures and those of my family members. She then used pieces of a red cloth to tie all of them together. I confronted her and she denied any involvement but refused to swear.”
“I reported the matter to her people and told them that I am no longer interested in the marriage. I made it official in December and returned to Lagos. I was surprised when on January 19, she came knocking at my door,” Ikechukwu narrated.
The deceased was alleged to have been battered by her husband, Ikechukwu Anajekwu on January 19, 2015. She ran to her friend, Chinyere Onyali’s house where she died two days later.
Meanwhile, Police detectives at the Criminal Investigation Department, CID, Panti, Lagos, are currently working to untangle the mystery behind the sudden death of Obiageli Anajekwu.
