Policeman's Wife Stabs Neighbour, See Her Reason

There was a breach peace on Etunrere Street in
the Ikorodu area of Lagos on Monday after the
wife of a policeman attached to the state police
command allegedly stabbed her neighbour, Mrs.
Olaitan Ayobami. The cop’s wife, Mrs. Desola
Ochoche, fled the residence afterwards, leaving
Ayobami for dead. Ayobami was later rushed to
a private hospital in the area. PUNCH Metro
learnt that the attack was caused by a scuffle
between the
duo on Sunday when Ochoche
reportedly challenged Ayobami to a duel for
laughing at her. It was gathered that they were
separated only for the fight to resume around
6am on Monday when Ayobami, a teacher,
wanted to bathe.
Our correspondent was told that after the face-
off, the teacher with her children were heading
for school when Ochoche ambushed her at the
entrance of their rented building with a shard of
bottle.
She was said to have chased her to the garage
on the premises and stabbed her in the head and
hand. It was learnt that Ochoche was eventually
arrested by policemen from the Igbogbo Police
Division, but released a few hours later. Ayobami
said she wanted Ochoche to be brought to book,
adding that she was still in pains. She said, “On
Saturday, I left my phone in my kitchen and when
I went back to pick it, I found it inside water.
I wanted to challenge Iya Oby (Ochoche), but my
husband warned me not to do so because I
didn’t have evidence. On Sunday, she started
singing abusive songs against me, but I did not
reply. “At a point, I laughed and she became
angry. She poured water on me and we fought.
While I was going to the bathroom on Monday
morning, she attacked me and we fought again.
Her husband separated us and warned her to let
peace reign. “I was going to school when she
attacked me in the corridor and stabbed me with
a shard of bottle. Her husband, who is a
policeman, took her to the Igbogbo division, but
she has been released.
I want her to be charged to court.” Ochoche,
who spoke with our correspondent on the
telephone, admitted stabbing Ayobami. She,
however, claimed that she acted to revenge an
injury earlier inflicted on her by the teacher. She
said, “I have been warning her to stop insulting
me with songs. She would accuse me of flirting
around just because I am not employed.
It is true I stabbed her but she had used
something to injure me in the face while we
were fighting around 6am on Monday. I revenged
so that she would know she cannot intimidate
me.” Asked if it was Ayobami’s laughter that
caused the Sunday’s fight, she replied, “I don’t
know.
I am on medication and want to sleep.” Another
neighbour, Sarah Elijah, said she was in her
kitchen when she heard the sound of a broken
bottle, adding that she did not approach Ochoche
to avoid trouble.
The landlord of the house, who did not want his
name in print, told our correspondent that the
two tenants had been at loggerheads for a long
time. He said he had intervened on several
occasions and served their husbands notices to
quit when the fight persisted.
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He said, “I have called them several times and
talked to them, including their husbands. I gave
them notices to quit in January when the fight
was going out of hand.
The Monday incident was terrible. Ochoche’s
husband told me Ayobami was the one who
initially attacked his wife.
But residents said it was not true. I told her
(Ochoche) not to enter my house again because
I fear something worse may happen.” The police
spokesperson in the state, SP Dolapo Badmos,
said it was a case of affray and the two women
would be charged to court.
She said, “The two women injured each other
and they have been released to go and take care
of themselves after which they will be charged
to court for affray.”