See What Man Allegedly Did to His Corps Member Wife

A 30-year-old corps member’s husband allegedly poked his finger into her eye during a disagreement at their home in the Surulere area of Lagos. He was also said to have stabbed her in the face with a broken glass and punched her head and face.

Punch reports she was rushed to a health centre in the area by an in-law and later to the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja. Her husband was later arrested but released on bail.

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The victim said she had followed her husband to his parent’s house and they had returned around 8pm.

She continued,

“Immediately we got home, he said he wanted to go for a meeting somewhere and I told him to return as early as possible before they shut the street gate at 10pm.

When it was 11pm, I called him, but he didn’t pick his calls. He also did not respond to a Whatsapp message I sent around that time. He later picked his call and I warned him that if he returned too late I would not rise up from bed to open the gate for him.

Around 1am, I called his telephone line again and I heard a noise at the background. I overheard a lady talking. I told him I was going for my NYSC Community Development Service early in the morning, but he ignored me.”

The woman who already had two children for the suspect, said she returned to bed, but her husband did not return until it was 2am.

“At about 2am, he called me on the telephone and said I should come and open the gate, but I ignored him. When I eventually went downstairs to open the gate, somebody else had done it.

He abused my mother and I cautioned him, but he said it was my day of reckoning and my cup of iniquity was full. I was in my night gown that time.

He picked up his belt and started beating me. As I tried to run away from him, I fell down. During the struggle, a mirror fell on the floor and he stabbed me with a splinter. He sat on me. I screamed in pain and shouted for help, but nobody came to my rescue.

He poked a finger into my eye and gave me several blows in the face,” she said.

She explained that she managed to bite Bade’s leg, adding that it was then he let go of her.

When contacted, Bade denied attacking his wife, adding that she was the first to assault him.

“All she said was a lie. It was my hand that I used to beat her and she was the one that used a plank to hit me in the back and even stabbed me with the broken mirror.

I have a deep cut in my back and in the front. I slapped her. She got a swollen face because she is plump,” he said.

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Some family members are said to have prevailed on the victim to let go of the case “because of the children.”

The Police Public Relations Officer, SP Dolapo Badmos, said the police were preparing to take Bade to court when his wife came to withdraw the case.

She said,

“A case of assault occasioning harm was reported against the man.

He was arrested, detained and given bail to a reliable surety and warned to report back the next day during which the charges were ready.

But the wife (victim) came back and was pleading, along with both families, not to take the case to court on the grounds that he is her husband and the father of her children.

However, undertaking was written by the husband to be of good behaviour. The case is still on.”

Meanwhile, the couple have reportedly separated pending when the matter would be fully resolved.