By Dan Iriekpen
The Police Command in Edo has arrested a man, Kelvin Izekor, for allegedly murdering his beautiful 38-year-old newly wedded pregnant wife, Success Izekor.
According to the police, the incident happened at Upper Mission Extension in Benin City earlier on Saturday.
It was gathered that Success was four months pregnant at the time of her death.
A female resident, who pleaded anonymity, said the couple recently got married.
“I can’t believe what I saw. Imagine being killed by your own husband.
“They were newlyweds, and nobody would have expected the woman to suffer such a fate,” she said.
A video sighted on social media shows the deceased with deep machete cuts on her head.
She is being taken in the video by the police and residents from her apartment into a police Hilux van.
Sources familiar with the incident said that it was when the husband wanted to go and dump the deceased’s corpse at night that a neighbour sighed him and raised alarm.
The command’s spokesman, Moses Yamu, confirmed the incident in a statement.
Yamu said that the deceased’s husband was about to be lynched by an irate mob before the police arrived, pacified the crowd, and arrested him.
The statement reads in part:
“On 22/02/2025, at about 22:00hrs, information was received that one Kelvin Izekor of No. 50 Upper Mission Extension, Benin City, had killed his wife, Success Izekor, aged 38, and was about to be lynched by an irate mob.
“Operatives of the Aduwawa Division swiftly responded to the report and found the lifeless body of the woman lying in a pool of her own blood, with deep cuts on her head.
“It took serious efforts by the police to pacify the mob, rescue the suspect, and take him into custody for investigation. The victim was taken to the hospital, where she was confirmed dead.”
The statement said that the Commissioner of Police in the state, Betty Otimenyin, condemned the recent rise in cases of domestic violence.
The CP assured the public of a thorough investigation into the woman’s death.
Yamu stressed that whoever was found culpable would be prosecuted in accordance with the law.
