How Nurse Stabbed Engineer Husband To Death In Lagos [Photos]

A Lagos-based auxiliary nurse, Mrs. Folashade Bashira Idoko reportedly stabbed her husband Engr. Lawrence Ameh Idoko to death

The ugly and unfortunate incident which occured at about 11pm, August 20 at Kosoko Street in Ayetoro area of Lagos state was, according to neighbours, including the landlord of the house, a culmination of several years of violent spousal abuse by the suspect, Mrs. Idoko, against her husband.

The suspect, Mrs. Folashade Bashira Idoko

The last fatal incident was said to have happened on Sunday night when 32 year -old Mr. Idoko who worked as a pipeline engineer with Greater Inspection and Industrial Services at Sango-Otta, Ogun State, was away for a week on an assignment at Ikorodu for his company. When he returned home, his wife accused him of being involved in an extra-marital affair and stabbed him in the leg with a sharp knife.

The knife she allegedly used in committing the murder

When his three-year old son’s cries alerted neighbours, he had bled heavily. He died about an hour after he was rushed to the nearby New Ayetoro Medical Centre, Ijanikin.

The crime scene

According to a neighbour, Mrs. Blessing Olokpobri, the wife’s violence was a well-known fact in the entire neighbourhood.

“There was hardly a day they didn’t have a fight whenever he came around, even on January 1st this year.

“Or, was it when he went to drag him and stripped him naked from the beer palour around here where he was hanging out with friends? She even beat up an elderly neighbor who tried to intervene. There was even a time she sliced his ear lobes with a broken bottle and it had to be stitched. There was another day she striped him naked in the public, she narrated.

The deceased, Engr. Lawrence Ameh Idoko

The landlord, Chief Gani Akanni, the Balogun of Ayetoro-Ijanikin who took the bleeding and dying Idoko to the hospital said he once gave the couple a quit notice early this year due to the incessant fight, but was begged by the other tenants into reconsidering his stance.

“There was a time I also took the woman to the police station because she vandalised my property after I locked up the tenants’ rooms for defaulting in payment of LAWMA (waste collection) bills.

“She went ahead to break the door. It is unfortunate because the husband is such a quiet and peaceful man. Lawrence would never raise his voice against anybody, he would rather apologise if there was any issue involving him.

“There are seven days in a week, this couple would fight three of those seven days. I am a peaceful person and a community leader. People bring matter to me in the neighbourhood and I settle them. I don’t like noise but the deceased’s wife would always cause embarrassment in the compound," the landlord said.

The deceased, Engr. Lawrence Ameh Idoko at work

Folashade is currently in detention at the Ijanikin Police Station.

She is an auxiliary nurse by training but has been a house wife since. The couple have two children, a three-year old boy, Isaac and an 11-month old girl, Benedicta.

The deceased hailed from Benue while Folashade hails from Irepodun Local Government Area of Kwara State.