Man Allegedly Poisons Wife And Records Her ‘Slow’ Death On Camera

29-year-old businessman, Oluchi Ajimowu, who was allegedly involved in the death of his wife, Priscilla Ajimowu, a 23-year-old mother of two, has been apprehended by the State Department for Criminal Investigation, SCID, Yaba, Lagos State. 

The suspect, according to the DAILY POST report had on November 29, locked the deceased up in her room, seized her phone and went out with their two children. On arrival, he reportedly met his wife foaming in the mouth.

Notwithstanding, reports say the police are working on two theories: that it is either Ajimowu smashed the wife’s head on the floor, or she poisoned herself after being frustrated by her husband.

According to reports, the deceased before her death lived with her husband and two children. She had demanded to be taken to a hospital, but her husband allegedly declined, and gave her palm oil instead. He reportedly filmed her at their residence in the FESTAC area of the state for about 40 minutes, after which she gave up the ghost. It was learnt that Ajimowu wrote “for sale” on the house shortly after the wife’s death.

Meanwhile, prior to the incident, Ajimowu had reportedly subjected the deceased to inhuman treatment for the four years they spent in South Africa. He came back to Nigeria four months ago while the wife arrived on November 27, two days before her death.

Seven-year-old Ella, the couple’s first child, said there was a pesticide and a drink in the room where her mother was on the fateful day. She said, “My father was not nice to my mother while they were in South Africa. Dad used to shout at mummy and beat her and she would be crying. That day (November 29), we left her alone in the house. “Daddy took the keys and mummy’s phone and locked mummy inside. When we came back home, daddy packed outside, locked us inside the car and went inside. After that, he called us to come, come and see your mummy on the floor’.

“Mummy was saying, ‘Take me to hospital, I’m tired’. He started videoing her (a video which lasted more than 40 mins). He gave her red oil, but she spat it out. Her body was cold,” Ella sobbed.

Oluchi was handed over to SDCI on Wednesday,”. The Lagos State Police spokesperson, DSP Joe Offor, said the Aguda Police Station arrested the husband and handed him over to the Satellite Town Police Division, adding that investigation into the case had begun.