Nigerian woman in Ghana stabs husband to death over marital dispute

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Saturday, March 17th, 2012

What initially looked like a normal fight between a Nigerian couple over sex,
turned bloody when the wife stabbed the husband several times, resulting in
the untimely death of a 42-year-old man at Asokore Mampong in Kumasi.

Rashida Yetunde, 37, allegedly used a sharp knife to stab Maruuf Akinjobi
three times in the chest, sending the stoutly-built man down, before stabbing
him again on countless occasions in the abdomen when the deceased
allegedly tried raping her.

The intestines of Maruuf gushed out as he bled profusely amid wailing for help
in their locked room on Tuesday around 10:30pm, the police told DAILY
GUIDE.

The suspect, after committing the heinous crime, left the man to his fate in
the locked room, threw the knife into a nearby bush and fled with her five-year-
old son in the dark to avert being apprehended.

Some Good Samaritans residing in the same house who heard the dying man
crying for help forcibly broke into the room and quickly sent him to hospital,
but he was declared dead on arrival.

Briefing DAILY GUIDE, the Asawase District Police Commander, DSP Nana
Kumi, said the stabbed man was initially sent to the police station by his
helpers and he was issued with a medical form to visit the hospital for
treatment but it was too late.

The police chief noted that suspect Rashida personally visited the police
station around 4am on Wednesday to report that she stabbed her husband
the previous night during a fight.

Aware that the man had passed away, the police decided to detain the lady to
assist in investigations.

Her five-year-old son with the deceased has been given to the family of the
departed husband to take care of.

DSP Kumi disclosed that Rashida, during interrogation, said she met the
deceased in Benin where he proposed love to her which she agreed to in 2004.

According to her, her late husband, whilst proposing to her, said he had
divorced his wife so he was single.

The suspect said some years later, she realised that her husband was
befriending her friend who lived with them in the same house at Nima, adding
that she also detected that the husband was also having an affair with his ex-
wife who resided in Nigeria.

Rashida became angry because she thought the husband was cheating on
her so she moved from the deceased’s Nima house in Kumasi to live at
Asokore Mampong with her five-year-old son.

On Tuesday evening, the suspect was with her son in their room at Asokore
Mampong when the estranged husband visited her around 10:30pm.

Rashida claimed the husband owed her an amount of money and therefore
demanded it.
The husband replied that he was not in the position to pay the money to her at
the moment and pleaded that Rashida should allow him to travel to Nigeria on
a business trip, promising to settle the debt on his return.

The suspect refused to accept her husband’s plea so she held his shirt,
insisting that until the husband settled the debt, she would not allow him to
leave the room.

Suddenly, a skirmish ensued between the couple and Rashida claimed that
her husband assaulted her during the brawl until tempers were calmed down
and peace was restored between the two.

About 30 minutes after the brawl, Akinjobi pleaded with his wife to have sex
with him but Rashida, who was still angry, stressed that she would not allow a
man who had just beaten her to sleep with her.

Her refusal to go to bed with him infuriated Akinjobi, Rashida said, adding that
the deceased then pushed her against a table in the room and then tried to
rape her.
She said in an attempt to scare away her husband from raping her, she
picked a sharp knife which she used to stab the man on the chest which
dazed him and sent him to the floor.
She then stabbed him several times in the stomach before fleeing.

DSP Kumi noted that after narrating her story, the police took Rashida to the
crime scene and the entire room was covered with blood stains but the knife
which the lady used to commit the crime could not be traced.

The police commander said when they asked Rashida about where she kept
the knife, she retorted that she could not remember.

The five-year-old boy who saw where his mother threw the knife then stunned
all present by leading the police to where the knife was placed.

DSP Kumi said the police would soon arraign the suspect.wp_posts