GBESE!!! Policeman’s Wife Stabs Neighbour For Laughing At Her
There was a breach of the peace on Etunrere Street in the Ikorodu area
of Lagos on Monday after the wife of a policeman attached to the state
police command allegedly stabbed her neighbour, Mrs. Olaitan Ayobami.
The cop’s wife, Mrs. Desola Ochoche, fled the
residence afterwards, leaving Ayobami for dead. Ayobami was later rushed
to a private hospital in the area.
The attack was caused by a scuffle between the duo on Sunday when
Ochoche reportedly challenged Ayobami to a duel for laughing at her.
They were separated only for the fight to resume around 6am on Monday
when Ayobami, a teacher, wanted to bathe.
After the face-off, the teacher with her children were heading for
school when Ochoche ambushed her at the entrance of their rented
building with a shard of bottle. She was said to have chased her to the
garage on the premises and stabbed her in the head and hand.
Ochoche was eventually arrested by policemen from the Igbogbo Police
Division, but released a few hours later. Ayobami said she wanted
Ochoche to be brought to book, adding that she was still in pains.
She said, “On Saturday, I left my phone in my kitchen and when I went
back to pick it, I found it inside water. I wanted to challenge Iya Oby
(Ochoche), but my husband warned me not to do so because I didn’t have
evidence. On Sunday, she started singing abusive songs against me, but I
did not reply.
“At a point, I laughed and she became angry. She poured water on me and
we fought. While I was going to the bathroom on Monday morning, she
attacked me and we fought again. Her husband separated us and warned her
to let peace reign.
“I was going to school when she attacked me in the corridor and stabbed
me with a shard of bottle. Her husband, who is a policeman, took her to
the Igbogbo division, but she has been released. I want her to be
charged to court.”
Ochoche, who spoke with our correspondent on the telephone, admitted
stabbing Ayobami. She, however, claimed that she acted to revenge an
injury earlier inflicted on her by the teacher.
She said, “I have been warning her to stop insulting me with songs. She
would accuse me of flirting around just because I am not employed. It is
true I stabbed her but she had used something to injure me in the face
while we were fighting around 6am on Monday. I revenged so that she
would know she cannot intimidate me.”
Asked if it was Ayobami’s laughter that caused the Sunday’s fight, she
replied, “I don’t know. I am on medication and want to sleep.”
Another neighbour, Sarah Elijah, said she was in her kitchen when she
heard the sound of a broken bottle, adding that she did not approach
Ochoche to avoid trouble.
The landlord of the house, who did not want his name in print, told our
correspondent that the two tenants had been at loggerheads for a long
time. He said he had intervened on several occasions and served their
husbands notices to quit when the fight persisted.
He said, “I have called them several times and talked to them, including
their husbands. I gave them notices to quit in January when the fight
was going out of hand. The Monday incident was terrible. Ochoche’s
husband told me Ayobami was the one who initially attacked his wife. But
residents said it was not true. I told her (Ochoche) not to enter my
house again because I fear something worse may happen.”
The police spokesperson in the state, SP Dolapo Badmos, said it was a
case of affray and the two women would be charged to court.
She said, “The two women injured each other and they have been released
to go and take care of themselves after which they will be charged to
court for affray.”
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