Tragedy struck at Umueze Ibeku community, a suburb of Umuahia, Abia State, early Sunday morning, when a middle-aged man identified as Lawrence Uzor, plucked out his wife’s eyes for rituals.
The victim who was said to be deep asleep when the incident occurred, is currently hospitalized at the Federal Medical Centre, FMC, Umuahia.
Their land lady, Madam Lovejane Nwaiwu who was said to have been alerted by the victim’s groaning, rushed into the apartment of the tenants to see what it must be.
The suspect was said to have used the killer knife on the landlady but she narrowly escaped.
Narrating her ordeals to the wife of the Governor, Mrs Priscilla Otti who visited the victims Monday at the FMC, where they are currently hospitalized, the Landlady said she escaped by whiskers.
She said that she had rushed in to know why the man’s wife was groaning, the man who pinned her to the floor with a knife in his hand, attempted to cut off her head but God saved her.
The landlady said:”About 10 pm on Saturday, I heard the man shouting ‘Odogwu, Odogwu (mighty, mighty)’. I was worried as I have not heard the man and his wife, Amarachi Lawrence praying like that.
“I started praying for them. After that. I couldn’t sleep up to about 12 am and was restless. About 1 am, the wife, who is a teacher in a private school started shouting, ‘Mummy, I have been killed’.
” I opened my door, came out and peeped through their bedroom window and saw the man pressing down on the wife with a knife in his hands.
“I started pushing on people’s gates and calling out to Umueze people, but nobody came out or responded. After all attempts to call neighbours to come and nobody answered me, I went to their parlour door and started knocking on the door and suddenly, he opened the door while holding the knife and tried giving me cuts at the head. But I defended my head with my hand and he cut me at the hand and further slashed the knife at my face that incidentally cut me at the mouth and many of my upper teeth came out.
“I ran into my house and locked the door. while he ran outside, locked our gate and went to a neighbour’s house to tell them that he has killed his wife and his landlord’s wife.
“While inside my room, I called my mother and my daughter, who then called a church neighbour and the community vigilance team who rushed to the neighbour’s house and apprehended him”.
Meanwhile, the Governor’s wife who expressed shock over the dastardly act, vowed to seek justice for the victims.
