A 40-year-old man from Okpoma village in Yala Local
Government Area, Cross River State, Dominic Iyayi Ogar, has thrown his in-laws
into mourning following the gruesome murder of his wife and their only
daughter.
Ogar is alleged to have committed the dastardly act on
October 8, 2016 in Mpape, Abuja. The Commissioner of Police, Federal Capital
Territory Command, Mr. Mohammed Mustafa, said that Ogar, who slept with his
wife and their only daughter on the same bed, woke up suddenly in the middle of
the night, took a knife and stabbed both of them to death, and they died
instantly.
Mustafa said that Ogar then carried the corpses of the dead
27-year-old wife, Omago and the daughter, two-year-old Blessing to a nearby
nursery and primary school in the area; he allegedly wrote a small note and
dropped it beside the corpses and then ran off to hide in his farm.
His evil deed, however, came to light when one of his
neighbours, Destiny Onwusuaka, noticed a trail of blood that led to the door of
the family house.
In a chat with The Sun
Onwusuaka said: “It was around 7:00am when I discovered stains of blood on the
floor and followed the trail to the door of Ogar. When I looked into the room,
I saw a pool of blood but I didn’t see the husband or the victims.
“It was later that
I saw the two corpses where the husband dropped them. I shouted and called our
neighbours. We then ran to the police to report what we saw. We started
searching for the husband. It took four days before we found him and arrested
him in his farm on October 11, 2016.
Ogar who has been detained at the Criminal Investigation
Department of the FCT Police Command said, “I don’t have a job, I cannot feed my family, I can only feed myself,
and God should forgive me for what I have done. I don’t know what came to my
mind; it was frustration that led me to stab my wife and only daughter to
enable me survive in life.”
As it stands now, Mustafa said that Ogar’s hope of surviving
in life now lies at the discretion of the court where he would soon be
arraigned to answer charges.
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