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Husband Snatcher
Things have fallen apart for a couple in Lagos and a police woman seems to be at the centre of the collapse of the marriage contracted four years ago.
Daily Sun gathered that the job of the police woman is already on the line for allegedly snatching the husband of one Chibuzo and taking custody of her only child.
The embattled woman told Daily Sun that her problem started shortly after her wedding. By her account, the husband, Azubike, lost his job a day after their wedding. She narrated how the man accused her of being behind his misfortune.
"He said I was the one that brought bad luck to him. He was always making trouble with me, asking me to leave his house. Unknown to me, he had fallen in love with another woman, a police constable”, she said.
Chibuzo alleged that the police constable, Ngozi, formerly serving at Itire police division not only drove her away from her matrimonial home, she also detained her two consecutive times, one at Itire police station where she made herself the Investigating Police Officer (IPO) and another at the State Criminal Investigation Department, (SCID), Panti, Yaba, Lagos.
She said the police constable was already pregnant for her husband then.
Our investigations also revealed that there is pressure on the police to sack the constable as she never brought the man to the police for an interview as required by the police rule. Again, Azubike was said not to have given the embattled wife any divorce letter.
Daily Sun also gathered that the Inspector General of police is already aware of the matter and has directed the Commissioner of Police, Force Provost Marshal, Force headquarter Annex, Kam Salem House, Obalende, Lagos, to investigate the case of threat to life, unlawful arrest/detention, among others, levelled against the woman constable by the embattled Chibuzo.
The letter was written on IG’s behalf by his Principal Staff Officer, Sam A. Okaula, and an Assistant Commissioner of Police.
In her earlier petition to the IG, dated November 20, Chibuzo alleged that Ngozi conspired with other policemen at SCID to arrest and detain her for four days over the husband she legally married.
She further alleged that she was driven away from her matrimonial home by the same group and prevented from having access to her child, Ebubechukwu.
Daily Sun also gathered that Chibuzo had written to several human rights groups, appealing to them to help save her marriage and make her have access to her son. They include office of the Public Defender, Ministry of Justice, Human Right Chapter, among others.
The embattled woman, who earlier received assurance from the police that the constable would lose her job, having violated police rule and based on the directive by the IG, said she was surprised when she went to the office of the Provost Marshal recently only to be given a condition for getting back her child. According to her, the condition was that she should allow the constable to retain her job.
The police argued that since the policewoman is still in the custody of her son, she may harm him if she loses the job.
"When I refused, they told me that the police could not get my child for me, that I should go to the Welfare," she said.
She said the constable also boasted that nobody would remove the uniform from her.
"All I need is justice, I want my child back." Documents made available to Daily Sun showing that Azubike and Chibuzo were legally married on November 22, 2003.
When Daily Sun contacted Azubike, he said Chibuzo was only after his job and that of the constable.
He told Daily Sun that the embattled Chibuzo abandoned him and their only child on the advice of her mother, when he lost his former job and remained as an applicant for two years.
He said he was surprised when she heard that he had got another job and started making overtures to come back to him. He said: "It was the mother that misled her. I learnt she even fought the mother recently for making her to quit her matrimonial home. She packed out of my house in 2006.
It was when I got another job that she started sending people to me that she wants to come back.”
He explained that he knew his present wife (constable) when Chibuzo attempted to kidnap their son from school and the case reported to the police. He said Ngozi was the Investigating Police Officer (IPO).
He emphatically said he had no plans to reconcile with his ex-wife. "She is after my job, after my wife’s job. All the places she took me to, I have been vindicated, Welfare, Customary court, etc. The woman has been going about causing confusion. It was when I got the recent job that she wants to come back to me," he said.
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