NIGERIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DIE BY HANGING FOR KILLING PREGNANT WIFE

May 30, 2022:

A 52-year-old Nigerian man, Nkereuwem Etim Emah, on 27 May 2022 was sentenced to death by hanging for the murder of his pregnant wife.
Emah, an indigene of Mbiabam, Ibiono Ibom local government area, Akwa Ibom State, accused his pregnant wife of infidelity.
The accused killed his wife on 12 February 2018, while she was sleeping in their residence, in Mbiabam, Ibiono Ibom LGA.
The father of five children, was said to have butchered his wife to death following a confrontation on the paternity of her unborn baby.
Speaking as a prosecution witness in an Uyo High Court, Christian Sylvanus Etim, the 10-year-old son of the deceased narrated how his father killed his mother.
“On 12/2/2018, my father, (a mechanic with the Water Board), used a machete in the night when my mother was sleeping, and cut my mother. My mother died,” he said.
In his judgment, Justice Bassey Nkanang described the act as “callous, inexplicable and inexcusable debasement of the marriage institution.”
“The nature of the weapon resorted to by the accused person in ventilating his rage at the victim are clear pointers that indeed, the accused person clearly intended to kill the deceased.
Earlier in his allocutus, the accused person had pleaded the Court to temper justice with mercy and give him another chance to go home and take care of his five children.