Onyekachi Anele, 36, is at present grinding his teeth in misgiving, in the care of the police at the central station of the State Criminal Investigation Department, SCID, of the Imo Police Command, Owerri.
As he considers over what's on the horizon for his four-year-old little girl and one-year-old child and the stepson who is at the focal point of the destiny that has come to pass for the family, he is similarly learning, in a hard and lamentable way, the significance of what the book of scriptures says: "The fallen angel goes about like a thundering lion seeking who it might eat up."
Anele who lived with his family in Obibiezena in Owerri North Local Government Area, is likewise wishing that he had controlled himself when the fallen angel pushed his better half to blend up outrage in him, not long after he returned home from vigil held at Jesus Disciples Fellowship.
Sunday Sun learnt from the Imo Commissioner of Police, Mr. Taiwo Lakanu that inconvenience started on June 1, 2016, when Anele's better half, 32-year-old Chikodi, requesting that he give her child from a prior marriage, N100 to take to class.
Taking up the story, Anele said:
"I got hitched to my late spouse Chikodi Anele more than four years prior. She had a child for another man before we got hitched. We have been living respectively in peace. We have two youngsters. Our first tyke, a young lady, is four years of age while the second youngster is a kid, who is only one year old."
He proceeded:
"On May 31, 2016, I went to my congregation, Jesus Disciples Fellowship, where we had a vigil. I returned around 5: 30 am and begun playing Christian music. My better half came to where I was and said that I ought to give my stepson N100 naira to go to class. I advised her that I had no cash with me.
"My late spouse was hypertensive; she turned out to be extremely angry that I didn't give my stepson N100. She began to affront me. I got furious and slapped her.
She slapped me consequently. I was stunned by her boldness and slapped her a second time. She tumbled down and blacked out.
"I hurried her to City Hospital, Nekede. On arriving, the doctor checked her and affirmed that she was dead. I went to the close-by police headquarters at Umuguma and reported the matter to the police and they captured me," he said.
Speedily, the case was transferred from Umuguma Police Station to State Criminal Investigation Department, Owerri, the Imo State capital, where he has been in detainment as examination concerning the matter was in advancement.
The officer accountable for the homicide area of the SCID, Supol Innocent Obi, further uncovered that relatives of the expired had not yet been to the police to know the condition of the matter. He expressed that Anele had not yet educated them.
In anguish, Anele, told Sunday Sun:
"I cherish my significant other. I had no goal to murder her. It was misconception and disturbance that incited me to slap her and she kicked the bucket. Up till now, it would seem that a fantasy and a riddle to me.
At the point when Sunday Sun went to the compound where Anele lived with his family before the deplorable occurrence happened, his neighbors were still in stun.
One of them, Chukudi Eneka said:
"They both adored each other; they were a decent family.
The fallen angel just brought on this thing. All of a sudden we heard them quarreling. The spouse slapped the wife and the wife slapped him back.
The husband then slapped her once more. She tumbled down and swooned. We thought it was a joke. When she was taken to the doctor's facility, the specialist said she was dead. We are stunned over the episode."
In what seems like an instance of Anele being relinquished to his destiny, the Deputy Commissioner of Police responsible for the State Criminal Investigation Department, Mr. Hafiz Inuwa said that the family of Anele had not been to see him in the authority of the police, however adding that the carcass of the perished was still in funeral home.