It was a sad day at Peace Lodge on Itura Street, Awa Ijebu, Ijebu-North Local Government Area of Ogun State when 32-year-old businessman, Ezekiel Igbokwe allegedly killed his wife’s lover, Victor Olatundun.

Igbokwe reportedly macheted and killed Olatundun after he caught him having sex with his wife at their matrimonial home. Ezekiel Igbokwe was arrested by the police the following day, July 8.

Mr. Igbokwe and his 28-year-old wife were among the 23 suspects paraded by the Ogun State Police at Command headquarters, Eleweran, Abeokuta.

In his narration, Igbokwe, who claimed to be a businessman, explained that he had returned from Onitsha and met Victor on top of his wife on their matrimonial bed. In anger, he picked a machete in the toilet and cut the victim in the neck and hand. Olatundun died on the way to the hospital.

“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. The man was stronger than me. When I saw he could overpower me, I got a cutlass in my toilet and dealt him blows in the hand and neck. On the way to the hospital, the fuel in the car finished and he died.”

Igbokwe pleaded that he committed he crime due to anger, adding that he never meant to kill the victim. He further added that he had never met Olatundun before, saying he also never suspected that his wife was having an extra-marital affair with anyone.

His wife, Juliet, a mother of three children aged nine, seven and five sobbed intermittently, alleging that she was charmed by the deceased
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.

“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. All I know is that he called me that he wanted to see me and I told him not to come; he knew my house and when he came, I didn’t know what happened.

“He used to come and deliver snuff to me in the house. On the day of the incident, he told me he was coming from somewhere and that it was already late. He wanted to sleep in our place till the next day. He didn’t know that my husband was away. He tried to sleep with me, but later he didn’t.”

Juliet, who claimed that she got married to her husband in 2005, said the husband did not take good care of her and the children, adding that their marriage had been turbulent and fraught with fights and quarrels.

The mother of three said each time there was a fight, her husband would leave the house for months.