Mrs. Favour Nweke, the woman who poured hot groundnut oil on her husband, Ekelediri Nwokekoro Nweke, in Rivers State, has explained why she committed the act.
Feeling remorseful, she said she was angry because Nweke did not disclose to her what he did with his own share of a N20 million deal.
She poured hot oil on her husband while he was sleeping in Okehi, Etche Local Government Area of the state.
She immediately ran away, was later arrested by members of a vigilance group and handed over to the Rivers State Police Command.
The husband is still in the hospital.
Mrs. Nweke, who was paraded on Friday, told reporters at the headquarters of the Rivers State Police Command on Moscow Road, Port Harcourt: “He would go out about 2 o’clock in the night and will come back early in the morning.
“Then I asked him: Where are you even going?
“So his friend called me and asked if I had heard what was on the ground:
“I said: ‘What is that?’
“He said my husband and some people were involved in one illegal act.
“He said they called somebody from Abuja that the person should come and work in Etche and that they have a contract to give to the person and when the person came, they duped the person of N20 million.
“I said he didn’t tell me, that I was hearing this for the first time.
“I said: ‘No wonder this guy has been acting strange, planning on how to travel and go to one African country’.
“So this is the reason. When he came back, I grabbed him and said this is what I heard and I confronted him, but he refused and we quarrelled. We ended it that day.
“I then asked him what he did with his own share of the money.
“I heard some people bought land with their own.
“So, what did you use your own to do?
“As we were dragging that issue that morning, he hit me.
“I ran into the kitchen, picked the oil frying pan and I poured it on him.
“That was how it happened.
“I feel bad.
“Had I known that this thing would turn out like this, I would not have done it to him.
“I will just go to my place and stay.
“I am begging for Nigerians, you people should forgive me.”
Rivers State Police Commissioner, CP Emeka Nwonyi, vowed that Nweke would be made to face the consequences of her action.
Nwonyi said: “I can assure you that person has been arrested and she is here with us.
“And the law will catch up with her and anybody who tries to take the laws into their hands, and be made to face the necessary sanctions”.
