Man Butchers His Wife After Prophet Told Him She Was Using His Star

Luck ran out of one Mr. Ismail Yakubu after he murdered his wife, Silifat Yakubu, and got caught up with the police as he tried to disappear.

The incident happened at Igbele, near Araromi Ale Olorunda Local Council Development Area, along Badagry Expressway in Lagos.

The mutilated body of the middle-aged woman was found in a small river located at the community’s entrance, where she was supposedly dumped after being murdered.

According to Vanguard, some of the dead woman's body parts such as her eyes, breasts and uterus, were allegedly missing when her corpse was found by passersby, suggesting that she must have been murdered for ritual purposes.

Ambimbola Sule, a commercial motorcyclist in the area, said:

“Residents in the community woke up on Saturday morning to find the lifeless body of a woman inside the river that leads into Igbele.

“Initially, people could not identify the person because her face had several cuts. She was wearing a lace gown, with no underwears.”

The police had made several arrests as they tried to identify the woman's corpse until they arrested Yakubu on Sunday and he confessed to killing his wife on Friday.

According to the suspect, he killed his wife because a prophet had told him she was using his star.

He purportedly dumped the corpse in the river at night, after his attempts to take her far away failed because his bus developed fault.

A neighbour, Iya Korede, who lives near the victim’s shop, noted that Silifat was jovial, hardworking and troubled no one.

Korede said:

“Most of the people in the area do not know her husband because he goes early to work and comes back late. But his wife is a very hard working woman. She built the house they live in.

“As if that was not enough, she bought a commercial bus for him. What else does he want? If he was tired of the marriage, he should have driven her away instead of killing her.

“The world is truly a wicked place.   How can a man kill his own wife? The same woman who bore him three male children, for goodness sake? It is only God that will save us.”

 Source: Vanguard

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