Police Rivers woman who poured hot oil on husband

Favour Nweke, a resident of Rivers State, has given an explanation for why she washed her husband, Ekelediri Nwokekoro, with hot groundnut oil in Okehi in the state's Etche Local Government Area.

This was said by the woman on Friday while she was being paraded before the media at a press conference held at the Moscow Road headquarters of the Rivers State Police Command in Port Harcourt.

The housewife, who had fled her home on Tuesday after realising the severity of the crime, was apparently discovered by a vigilante group on Thursday morning and taken to the police.

Nweke, who was brought in by agents while being restrained, maintained her composure while denying the claim that she had an extramarital affair.

She said, “He will go out, at about 2 o’clock in the night and will come back early in the morning. Sometimes he would go, and stay two or three days before coming back 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 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.

“So 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 with that oil and I poured it on him. That was how it happened.”

Nweke begged for pardon while denying the claim that she had extramarital encounters.

“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.”

In a separate speech, Rivers State Commissioner of Police Emeka Nwonyi told the public that Nweke would be held accountable for her actions.

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