Lately, there has been a growing trend of
Nigerian women killed by their husbands in the
USA, and the consistency of these reports is
nothing short of alarming.
The most recent one is that of a doctor identified
as Isioma Ebegbodi, whose life was cut short in a
crazy fit of anger by her violent husband.
Tall,elegant and brilliant Isioma Ebegbodi was
murdered in cold blood by her Nigerian husband
in Texas state of America on Saturday March 22,
2014.
She attended Queen’s College Yaba Lagos and
later proceeded to University of Lagos to study
Medicine.
She was until her gruesome murder a medical
resident physician at Marshfield clinic in Texas.
What really went wrong between a 36 year old
wife and her 63 year old husband?Was she
suffering in silence until the tragedy happened?So
many questions with limited answers.
Her husband, a 63-year-old Nigerian man was
later charged with murder after he confessed to
the shooting her around 3 a.m on Saturday March
22,2014 in west Harris County, Texas USA.
Martin Ebegbodi went to a neighbor’s house and
asked him to call police after getting into a fight
and then shooting his wife, 36-year-old Isioma
Ebegbodi nee Unokanjo.
The Harris County Sheriff’s Department arrived at
the house in the 19700 block of Youpon Leaf Way
and arrested Ebegbodi.
Martin Ebegbodi and Isioma J Unokanjo were
married on February 11, 2005 in Harris County,
Texas with Marriage certificate number 018430.
The deceased was born in 1978 in Nigeria
Per Second news gathered that the marriage has
witnessed several storms.
In 2008 the Ebegbodi filed a law suit against the
secretary of health and human services in a
vaccine injury act supposedly against their son,
NDIDICHUKWU MAXIMILLIAN EBEGBODI.
In recent times reports of Nigerian men killing
their wives has increased in the United States.
Few weeks ago a 33 year old Babatope Owoseni
was arrested in East Orange, New Jersey in
connection with the death of his wife who was
nine months pregnant at the time of her death.
26 year old Fatoumata Owoseni was found
unresponsive at the 39 South Munn Avenue
apartment she shared with Babatope. The police
have not released information on how he allegedly
killed her. Babatope has been charged with her
murder and is being held without bail at the Essex
County Corrections Facility.
This cancer of wife killing by Nigerian husbands
is fast spreading, and the Nigerian society is
getting numb and used to it, as one of the social
maladies of our times. A heinous act, which
hitherto would be very abominable that people are
shocked to their bone marrows, is today seen
with minimal indifference.
Few years ago, another Nigerian Mr. Kelechi
Charles Emeruwa, 41, from Old Umuahia, Abia
State, was charged with, and convicted of the
first-degree murder of his estranged wife, 36-
year-old Registered Nurse, Chidiebere Omenihu
Ochulo. Kelechi had finally lost it and stabbed his
wife, with her own kitchen knife, so many times
that the fountains of blood left on Julius Caesar
paled in comparison, until she gave up the ghost.
Chidiebere had just returned from her father’s
funeral in Nigeria. Kelechi had protested
vehemently to what he described as a lavish
burial, of course, she wouldn’t hear any of it after-
all she made the money. She had the misfortune
of returning to an angry, frustrated maniacal
husband who took her kitchen knife to her and
carved her up. It was on New Year’s Day, in her
townhouse in the 4200 block of Dunwood Terrace,
in the Silver Spring suburb of Burtonsville in
Montgomery County, Maryland.
Recently In Tennessee, a Nigerian man after
taking it for so long, lost his cool and shot his
Registered Nurse wife as well as his hitherto
mother in-law to death with a shot gun.
According to the account this RN wife was
married from Nigeria a pauper and brought to the
United States by this man, who trained her in
school as a registered nurse. Soon after her
qualification, the demon in her was let loose and
it became one torment after another, with one
police call after another followed by sleep-over in
police cells and it went on and on ad infinitum.
After a protracted battle with the authorities at the
wife’s instigation, this man lost his almost nearly
paid-off home to his wife, including the custody
of his three kids by her.
He sees these kids just periodically according to
court’s order and at the discretionary behest of
the wife who sometimes comes to the appointed
custody visitation ground at a time of her
choosing; just to punish and suffer this man. He
could not take it any longer and now the rest is
history with two women shot dead and the killer
in death row awaiting the electric chair.
Not too long ago, also, in Euless, a suburb of
Dallas, another frustrated Nigerian husband, 45-
year old Johnny Omorogieva from Edo State,
Nigeria murdered his RN wife, Mrs. Isatu
Omorogieva, 35, also of Edo State by savagely
striking her on the head numerous times with a
hammer in the full view of their 7-year old
screaming daughter.
In Tulsa, Oklahoma a yet to be fully authenticated
report has it that another Nigerian man recently
bludgeoned his RN wife to death while she was
fast asleep; following a traumatic life which she
has subjected him to since turning into the
majority bread winner of the family following her
graduating from a nursing program.
Another Nigerian nut-case, Mr. John Onwuka, 49,
from Akwete community of Ohafia Bende Local
Government Area of Abia State was charged with
one count each of homicide and use of a knife in
the commission of a felony. He stabbed his RN
wife of twenty five years, Mrs Gloria Uchechi Anya
Onwuka age 42, fourteen times in her bedroom
while she was getting ready to go to work. She
was a nurse manager . Mr. John Onwuka
committed this crime on the night of Saturday
August 19, 2006 at the home of his wife in Estate
Drive, Farmington, Hampton, Virginia with her
children watching him act out his gory insanity.
“Yes I have killed the woman that messed my life
up! A woman that had destroyed me. I am at
Shalom West, my name is Michael and am all
yours”. With those words – a 911 call placed to
the authorities.
Fifty year old Mr. Michael Collins Iheme of
Hennepin Minnesota placed the call above few
minutes after shooting his twenty eight year old
wife, Mrs. Anthonia Eberechi iheme, the mother of
his 4 year old boy and 3 year old girl, to death.
With all these reported cases, one cannot help but
wonder what exactly is going on and the reason
for the recent increase of these brutal murders.
Gbemisola Boyede,former schoolmate to Isioma
wrote this tribute for her on Facebook. Read
below:
Here I am just as I was breathing the sigh of relief
that justice was done in the case of Titi Arowolo
murdered by her husband in a grotesque act in
their own home here in Nigeria.
And watching with bated breath the ongoing trial
of Oscar Pistorius who shot dead his girlfriend in
his luxury house in Pretoria on Valentine day
I got the rudest shock of my life that a colleague,
friend, former classmate in medical school was
shot dead at 3am on Saturday in Texas, United
States by her own husband! This is too close
home for comfort!
Someone tell me what’s going on?
Why are people who professed to love forever and
who vowed before God and man pulling the trigger
to abruptly cut short the lives they are to protect?
How do we explain this to the innocent children
who are going to be deprived for life of parental
love and care? Mum is dead but dad isn’t
available because he’s serving terms for killing
mum?
How? How?? How???
Please if you’re in an abusive relationship riddled
with domestic violence, this is the time to get out!
Please stop keeping the front of happiness when
you’re dying inside!
The society may not understand, we may even
condemn ignorantly
But you owe it a responsibility to those innocent
children to be ALIVE!
Please get out NOW to a safe house
I don’t want to ever mourn another victim of
spousal or domestic abuse
I can’t begin to describe all the emotions I’m
going through
So you can only imagine what her parents, sister
and children will be going through!
This is so sad and how many times I’ve wished
in the last 48 hours, we can turn back the hand of
the clock!
Rest in peace Isioma, Issy Awele Ebegbodi and I
pray God comforts your children and family and
us all mourning you!
It shall be well!
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