A 40-year-old man from Okpoma village in Yala Local Government Area, Cross River State, Dominic Iyayi Ogar, has been arrested for the murder of his wife and their only daughter..
According to Sunday Sun reporter, the Commissioner of Police, Federal Capital Territory Command, Mr. Mohammed Mustafa, revealed that Ogar, who slept with his 27-year-old 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. Ogar then proceeded to carry the corpses of his wife and the daughter, two-year-old Blessing to a nearby nursery and primary school in the area..
He then wrote a small note and dropped it beside the corpses and then ran off to hide in his farm.
One of the neighbours Destiny Onwusuaka, who noticed a trail of blood that led to the door of the family house, 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.
Following the arrest of the suspect, the corpses of the deceased were moved to the mortuary of the National Hospital, Abuja.
At the Criminal Investigation Department of the FCT Police Command, Ogar who committed the gruesome act on October 8, 2016 in Mpape, Abuja, 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.”
