Israel, the 12-year-old son of John
Owobi, who allegedly killed his wife
and is being investigated by the
homicide detectives at the Lagos
State Criminal Investigations and
Intelligence Department, has
revealed how his father told him to
tell anyone who asked how his
mother, Theresa Owobi died that she
drank Sniper (a deadly insecticide).
According to a report by New
Telegraph, Theresa, a mother of
three, who had been married for 13
years, was 5-month-pregnant before
her death as Police are working on
the theory that John, a commercial
bank driver, strangled his wife.
While speaking with correspondents,
witnesses at Musili Street, Agege,
Lagos, revealed that the deceased
was allegedly subjected to domestic
violence, and that the couple had
maintained a cat and mouse
relationship.
It was alleged that the major issue
between the couple was Theresa’s
often accusation that John was
engaging in extra-marital affairs. The
accusation often leads to fights.
Theresa’s family members are also of
the opinion that John killed his wife
because he had planned to marry his
pregnant mistress.
John’s brother, Daniel Akor, who said
that he had lived with the couple for
three months, disclosed that Theresa
died on July 13, about 9p.m. The
couple engaged in a heated argument
after John received a phone call.
Akor said: “Theresa accused her
husband of speaking with his lover.
John told her that he wasn’t in the
mood for trouble. She started cursing
him and walked out of the house in
anger. She returned with a bottle of
sniper. She poured the content of the
sniper into her mouth before we
could stop her. We gave her oil to
drink, but it was too late. She died.”
But Israel said he was asleep when
the incident transpired. He woke up
when he heard his mother screaming
for help.
He said: “It was right from my sleep I
heard my mother screaming help!
help! help! She also shouted, ‘he
wants to remove my baby from my
stomach.’ My mother was under the
bed; I saw my father and Uncle
Daniel trying to pull her out from
under the bed.
“I later went back to sleep. I woke up
again to urinate. I saw my father
trying to pour oil into my mum’s
mouth. Uncle Daniel held a torch. He
asked me to go back to sleep. He said
that my mom would be alright by
God’s grace. I went back to sleep; I
woke up about 5a.m. My uncle told
me mum was dead.
“My father went to inform the police.
When father returned from the
station, he told me that my mum
drank sniper. He showed me the
empty bottle. Father said that if
people asked me what happened to
my mum, I should tell them she
drank sniper and nothing more. He
told me if I did otherwise, police
would arrest me.”
Theresa’s sister, Blessing, said there
was no way her sister could have
committed suicide.
She said: “Theresa confided in me
and our mother that her husband
had been giving her several drugs to
abort the five months old pregnancy.
I saw my sister a day before she died.
She was perfectly okay. I was
surprised when her husband called
me the next day, saying Theresa was
dead. He said she committed suicide.
“I sincerely believe that her husband
had a hand in her death. When we
all travelled in April Theresa told us
that her husband had been flirting
around and had refused to play his
role as a father. She told us he hadn’t
been giving her money for upkeep
and that he had been buying her
different herbal mixtures to flush the
pregnancy. She said she was not
going back to him because he was
capable of killing her. She, however,
went back to him after being
convinced by our grandmother.
“All we want is for the police to
investigate the matter and give our
late sister justice. I’m convinced she
didn’t kill herself. I believe she was
strangled by her husband, with the
help of his brother.”
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