Wife poisons, stabs husband to death over second wife

Port-Harcourt- It was a gory sight yesterday in Mgboshiminu community as Charity Ovudah, 36, allegedly stabbed her husband to death after first poisoning his food. The alleged murder was said to have taken place in the night, Peter Ovudah's attempt to bring a second wife into their matrimonial home led to his untimely death. Mrs. Igbokwe Onyeka, a neighbour to the Ovudahs revealed that, "the family had been quarrelling over the issue of second wife, but no one anticipated that Charity would be so angered to kill her husband. A 19-year-old housemaid to the Ovudahs, who gave her name simply as Loveth said she witnessed how Ovudah died, saying she first noticed that Charity added something to her husband's food that fateful night. "So when Ogar came back and started eating, I was monitoring him. After about 30 minutes he started behaving strange and fell off the dining chair rolling on the floor and shouting for help. That was when my aunt came and stabbed him till he gave up" she said. The suspected killer was said to have disappeared the moment the housemaid alerted neighbours of her action. The remains of the deceased has been deposited at the Braithwaite Memorial Hospital mortuary in Port Harcourt. -Vanguard