Lawyer wife who stabbed husband to death remanded in Kirikiri
A Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Wednesday ordered the remand of Udeme Odibi, the lawyer who allegedly stabbed her husband to death.
Udeme, 48, who was arraigned on a murder charge, was remanded in Kikiri prison.
Her plea was not taken by the court.
Her counsel, Oluseye Bamijoko, however, asked the court to remand the accused at the Ikoyi Prisons instead of Kirikiri prisons to allow neurologists and endocrinologists attend to her thyroid disease.
Bamijoko told the court that Udeme is currently undergoing psychiatric and private evaluation.
He pleaded that his client be remanded at the Ikoyi prison since the specialists attending to her are within Ikoyi/Victoria Island axis.
But the Chief Magistrate, Mrs. Kikelomo Ayeye, rejected the request of the defence counsel.
“Being at Kirikiri does not stop the specialists and endocrinologists from visiting and it’s sad that the Ikoyi prison lacks facilities for the female gender,’’ Ayeye said.
She, however, ordered that the accused be given privacy when interacting with her counsel or family members without the interruption of a third party (the presence of prison warders).
The chief magistrate also said that the burial of the deceased, which was scheduled to hold on Thursday, be put on hold.
Ayeye said that the burial should be suspended until final investigations had been completed.
She adjourned the case till June 25.
