Lagos: Court arraigns woman who allegedly stabbed husband to death over “Christmas food”
The 37-year-old woman accused of stabbing her husband to death over money for food was on Friday arraigned before an Ebute Meta Chief Magistrates’ Court, Lagos.
Christiana Odo allegedly committed the crime on Christmas day, December 25 at her residence on No. 2, London Barber St., Majidun in Ikorodu, Lagos State.
Christiana was said to have engaged in an altercation with her husband, Rominus before she went into the kitchen to take a knife with which she stabbed him.
NAN reports that the mother of three was charged with murder at Friday’s hearing.
The prosecutor, Inspector Oladele Adebayo, told the court that the offence contravened Section 221 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State 2011.
Chief Magistrate, A.O. Ajibade however, did not take the plea of the accused and ordered that she should be remanded at Ikoyi Prisons pending advice from the State Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).
The case was adjourned to Feb. 13.
