MAN KILLS WIFE AND PUTS HER IN A PIT TOILET

• NewsRescue- Headlines in Nigerian papers today is the story of a 46-year-old unemployed man, who on October 7, at Agbado in Ogun state of Nigeria was arrested for allegedly killing his wife by throwing her into a pit latrine over a domestic misunderstanding. That’s a raw dudu pit! This is just the latest case in the chronic saga of Nigerians killing their wives at home and abroad. The many spontaneous killings, unlike honor killings which are most rampant in Nations around the world, from Asia to South America, can more accurately be considered as crimes of passion, but some disturbingly are executed with scary premeditation and careful planning.

NewsRescue investigated the trends and distribution of these murders and found some thought and discussion provoking trends.

Pit Latrine: Traditional non water-flushed toilet

Nigeria with a population of 150 million, is Africa’s most populous nation. The country has over 500 ethnic groups, but of these, the three largest and loudest, are the Hausa’s up North, The Yoruba’s in the South west and the Igbo’s in the south east.

Cases of wife murder like the one above are almost exclusively relegated to the southern ethnic groups, with the Igbo’s being culprit in 9 in 10 cases.

What makes this sad habit so common among the Igbo’s has been a topic of hot debate for many years in Nigerian internet fora. Some have attributed the problem to an Igbo culture that places a humongous bride price on women, and after the men cough out fortunes to marry, they tend to regard their spouses as ‘property’, they have bought, hence having a very low tolerance during domestic conflict.

A commentator reacting passionately, said, ‘only people who do not know God will do such’, they have abandoned God, this is why!’

We are unable to test and correlate religion type or the lack of it with crime in general and domestic violence and spousal murder in particular.

John Onwuka in orange prison jumpsuit

In an internet article in 2008, “Nigerian Men Are Killing Their Wives in America now, ” on a popular Nigerian blog, the Linda Ikeji blog, several Nigerians, almost exclusively Igbo were listed, with pictures, for murdering their wives in America.

The names included Kelechi Charles Emeruwa, Theophilus Ojukwu, Johnny Omorogieva, John Onwuka and Michael Collins Iheme. Nigerians reportedly have peculiar names that allow easy, near accurate identification by ethnicity. The men ranged from 40-50 years and the typical story was a man who brought his wife to the United States, she trained as a nurse, made good money, and later either separated or feeling belittled, the man suddenly went to her abode and killed her crudely.

After coming across a shocking article on a Nigerian forum, NigerianVillageSquare, we ran an internet search to see the 2012 rates of wife killings and check for any trends in occurrence.

Without question, the United States has some of the highest results for ‘man kills wife’, several cases every month.

When we narrowed our search to ‘Nigeria man kills wife’, we found several incidences of Nigerian episodes and these still presented with the popular ethnic trend of being almost exclusively relegated to the Igbo south eastern ethnic group.

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