The Rivers State Police Command has arrested a young woman, Mrs. Hope Nwala, for pouring hot vegetable oil on her husband, Ekelediri Nwankwo, while he was asleep at Okehi community in Etche local government area of the State.
The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in the state, Grace Iringe-Koko, disclosed this in a text message to journalists in Port Harcourt on Thursday.
The message reads: “Good afternoon, the wife has been arrested, in police custody now.”
Earlier, narrating his ordeal to journalists, the victim, Nwankwo, said his wife also used hammer to hit him after pouring the hot vegetable oil on him.
He said: “I have told my wife’s younger sister to leave my house because of the way she has started dressing, and the way she occupy my matrimonial bed even when I am around, no young guy will tolerate such behavior, but my wife has refused the younger sister to leave the house.
“I also saw my wife alone with one tall black guy in the shop I rented for her, not that he is in for business, he followed my wife and sister here and there.
“With all these, I gave that her younger sister two thousand naira transport to go home so that I can actually understand what is going on in my house, but my wife got upset, while I went to bed to sleep, she used boiled groundnut oil on me, then start hitting me with harmer.”
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