Housewife...pastor arrested over death of husband

Nigerian police detectives from the Edo State Police
Command have arrested and detained a housewife
and her lover, a pastor, over the murder of her
husband, Victor Nsongbunyo, a Deputy Manager with
the Nigeria Petroleum Development (NPDC)
Company, in Benin. It was gathered that the woman and her deceased
husband, a native of Cross River State, who was
recently promoted to Deputy Manager in the
company and was due to retire from service next
year, had been having issues with the paternity of
their children after he suspected the wife was having an extra marital affair with the Pastor.
It was also learnt that when he suspected that the
pregnancy the wife was carrying was not from him,
the deceased visited their home town to complain to
his family and his in-laws. Consequently, the families
resolved that a DNA test would be conducted after the wife gave birth to the child.
This arrangement, according to sources, incensed
the wife, prompting her into plotting to murder her
husband with her lover-Pastor.
According to police sources, the deceased returned
from work on Friday October 22, 2013, when the suspected killers came and killed him, and put the
mutilated body into one of his old cars. The car was
driven to Sapele road, Benin, where it was set ablaze
with his body.
The following Monday, October 25, the woman was
said to have gone to her late husband’s office to report that he was missing. She was also said to
have reported the incident of the husband’s death to
the police. Thereafter, she went to her husband’s
bank where she allegedly withdrew N4milion from his
account.
It was further gathered that following information to a staff of the NPDC that a burnt car was sighted
somewhere along Sapele Road, they rushed to the
scene and found it was the Mr. Nsongbunyo’s car.
Consequently, the NPDC staff went back to the
deceased wife at their home to inform her of the
finding, but surprisingly, found her sitting comfortably at home watching African Magic, a situation which
prompted police suspicion of the woman.
The police were said to have launched a search for
the car given to the deceased by NPDC following his
promotion, and the car was reportedly traced to a
compound at Ekenwan road in Benin. The police detectives were said to have accosted a
lady in the compound where the car was packed and
she reportedly informed the police that the car was
packed by a Pastor who lives in the compound.
Further investigation by the police led them to
observe burns in the Pastor’s left hand and face, even as he (the pastor) reportedly told the police that
one of his daughters in the church sowed a seed with
the car.
He was said to have led the police to the residence
of the said daughter who sowed with the car in his
church, but it turned out that it was the residence of the deceased and it was the deceased’s wife.
The police then arrested the pastor and the
deceased’s wife, both of whom are now helping the
police in their investigation into the murder of Mr.
Nsongbunyo.
Edo state Police Commissioner, Mr. Foluso Adebanjo, who confirmed the incident, said “it is a
serious crime which we are investigating and until we
conclude, disclosing things might jeopardise
investigations.”