A 34-year-old police corporal, Lucky Ikharia, had on Thursday, October 30,2014 crushed the legs of his wife, Dupe and reportedly went home where he allegedly stabbed his own baby, David, to death and ripping out the toddler’s intestines.
The policeman then turned the knife on himself in an attempt to take his own life.
According to report, Lucky and his wife survived but both were in critical conditions. It was gathered that the gory incident occurred at the family’s rented apartment in Kale Close, Mafoluku, Oshodi in Lagos.
According to eye witness, prior to the incident, Lucky, who hails from Sabon Gida Ora, Edo State, had issues with his wife, a 30-year-old Dupe over N2, 000, after which he reportedly sent her packing.
Lucky, who is attached to the Makinde Police Division in Oshodi, Lagos had also ‘seized’ their only child from Dupe as a means of ‘punishing’ her.
It was gathered that around 8pm on the day of the incident, Dupe, indigene of Abeokuta, Ogun State, was going to her mother’s house in Mushin, without noticing that Lucky was already waiting in a bus to attack her.
On getting to Olorunshogo junction, Lucky chased his wife with his bus, crushing her legs in the process.
Lucky left her in a critical condition and furthered his evil course as fled the scene while passers-by initially thought the attack was random.
Concerned onlookers took Dupe to a nearby hospital on same evening for treatment and she had regained consciousness the following morning, this was when she explained that the man who drove the bus which crushed her legs was her own husband.
Dupe, who has no idea about his husband’s next line of action after attacking her, remained in the hospital as her husband reportedly drove back to their apartment where he stabbed their child, David, in the belly, before fleeing the residence.
According to report, it was Lucky’s co-tenants and Dupe’s relatives who discovered the baby’s corpse on Friday, October 31, 2014 and reported the incident at the Akinpelu Police Division. It was also gathered that the knife and the bus had both been recovered.
Speaking from the hospital on Monday, November 3, Dupe who was still receiving treatment, said the cause of the fight was a sum of N2000 which Lucky had accused her of stealing.
“We got married and started living together around October 2013. We usually had quarrels and that was not the first time he would beat me up, and send me out of the house. But this incident started on Sunday, October 26, 2014. Lucky had initially kept N15, 000 with me.
“Then,he collected N5, 000 to repair the bus. Later I gave him the rest, only to realise it was N8, 000. So, he began to question where I kept the remaining N2000. But I knew that it was his nature to stir up trouble because he had a habit of keeping money with me and going again to take it.
“So, we began to fight, and he asked me to leave the house. He did not allow me to take the child with me that day. I was sleeping in friends’ places until Thursday, November 30, 2014 when I decided to go back home. I did not find my baby, and when I asked him, he threatened that if he met me in the house by evening, he would kill me, kill the baby and himself.”
Dupe saidby her mother called her to come to their family house in Mushin, but that as she got on her way, at the Olorunshogo junction, a commercial bus swerved to her path and hit her several times.
“The commercial bus was his bus. He was the only man inside. He hit me and I fell. Then he reversed and came over my legs again. I lost consciousness. That was the last thing I knew,” she said.
It was gathered that Dupe might be admitted in the hospital for about two months and might spend over N600,000 for treatment due to the severity of the attack.
One of Dupe’s relatives, Mr. Segun Akiode, told newsmen that the family are yet to inform Dupe of her son’s death. He added that the family also did not know Lucky’s whereabouts.
“I was called on the phone on that evening that my sister was knocked down at Olorunshogo junction. When I got there, I met her in a pool of blood. So, we rushed her to a hospital. It was already around 9.30pm.
“On Friday, when we went to their apartment, we found the baby boy, stabbed in the belly and already dead on the floor. We have not told Dupe about his death yet. So, we went to report at the Akinpelu Police Division, and we were asked to describe the bus which hit Dupe. When we did, they said the bus was with them in the station, but the whereabouts of Lucky were still unknown.”
The source added that Lucky, who was believed to have also attempted to stab himself, was in an undisclosed hospital receiving treatment.
The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Kenneth Nwosu, when contacted promised to get back to our correspondent on the matter, but he had yet to do so as of press time.
