Philip Katongu (pictured above) from Wamba, Nasarawa
State has been arrested for allegedly stabbing his wife to
death, Punch reports.
According to reports, Katongu stabbed his wife to death in
a street at Oniru Estate, Maroko, Lagos, where they lived.
Police say she was stabbed at least three times. After he
was arrested by operatives of the Department of Criminal
Investigations, Yaba, Lagos, Katongu, 45, claimed he
killed her because she infected him with HIV and then
wanted to leave him for another man. He explained:
“I married Justina, my second wife in December 2010. I
later learnt that she had given birth to two girls for a man.
The girls died of AIDS. However, when we first met, she
did not tell me all these. I explained to her that I have a
wife with children and I wanted to marry her too. Before
marriage, I told her we should go to hospital to conduct
HIV test, but she refused and said that she was HIV
negative. So we started sleeping together.”
Katongu claimed that without his knowledge, his wife had
been going to Abuja for medical treatment every three
months for HIV, until March 2013 when she took him
along.
He said it was at the hospital that she disclosed her HIV
status to him.
“I was angry and told the doctor who equally blamed her
for not disclosing it to me. The doctor then tested me, and I
was positive. We came back to Lagos and continued with
the relationship because I loved her. But suddenly, she
told me she wanted to pack out from my house that she
was no longer interested in marrying me having had
another person in Abuja. In fact, the man usually called
her on phone while we were together.
“I told her that with her status, she should not go and be
infecting people with the virus. And that I will kill her and
kill myself. We started fighting and I stabbed her. It was in
the early hours. I stabbed her three times with a knife. She
shouted and people were knocking at our door.
After she died, I stabbed myself, and the people broke the
door open. I woke up to find myself in a hospital. I feel
very bad that I killed my wife. I loved her very much.”
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