The deceased,
identified as Amatari Christmas, was married to Tombara, an indigene of Ayama
in the same local government area. They have two children.
The thirty-two
year-old man, Tuesday in Yenagoa, committed suicide after drinking an
insecticide, known as Sniper, after he learned that his wife was having an
extra-marital affair at Ikolo in Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa
State.
The incident
has provoked anger among indigenes of the community, with some kinsmen of the
deceased threatening to invoke their ancestors to deal with the unfaithful
woman and her lover, identified as a suspected cultist and an indigene of
Ayama.
A kinsman of
the deceased, who gave his name as Francis, said their late brother, on getting
wind of claims of infidelity against his wife, decided to monitor her
activities in the community.
Francis said:
“On Monday, the husband went to fetch vegetable in large quantities for his
wife to sell. After harvesting the vegetable, the husband told the wife to
return home after market to prepare dinner for the family.
“However, the
dead husband became worried and suspicious at about 7p.m. when the wife did not
return as instructed and went in search of her at his in-law’s house.
“At the
mother in-law’s house, he was told she had gone to the father’s place at Ayama.
At Ayama, a concerned friend took him to the home of his wife’s lover, where he
caught them in bed.”
According to
him, the wife’s lover, a suspected cultist in the area, had threatened to deal
with the aggrieved husband who for fear of his life, hid himself in an
uncompleted building before going home to drink the deadly substance after
locking out his two children.
When
contacted on the development, the spokesman of the state Police Command, Asinim
Butswatt, said he was yet to be briefed on the incident.
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