Kehinde Olanipekun, a man, is said to be on the run after allegedly macheting his wife, Damilola.
Damilola allegedly accused her husband of sexually harassing her 14-year-old daughter, whom she had with another man before marrying him.
The following day, Olanipekun allegedly attacked his wife with a machete at their home in Idasen Community, Owo Local Government Area, Ondo state, before fleeing the scene.
Damilola was then rushed to the Federal Medical Centre in Owo by her neighbors, but she was later referred to another hospital due to the injuries inflicted on her by the fleeing husband.
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Sharing her ordeal, Damilola told Punch; “My daughter (Olanipekun’s stepdaughter) told me how my husband had been sexually harassing her whenever I was not at home. So I was disturbed when I got back home. So the following day I had to ask him, he didn’t deny it, but he apologised to me.
“On that fateful day, he said he was going to work and left. But not up to one hour, he came and locked the door from behind and brought out a machete inside the room; when I asked him why, he said he wanted to go and work at the site. Without any prior argument, the next thing is that he started hitting me with the machete.
“He punched my head and my face, grabbed his machete again, and started hitting every other part of my body. I fell, I couldn’t defend myself. When the neighbours heard my loud cry, they knocked at the door to rescue me, but the door was locked from behind.
“After a while, that he had run away, I opened the door, and the neighbours eventually rescued me. I was rushed to the hospital.”
The man is still at large and has not been taken into custody, according to Mrs. Funmilayo Odunlami, the state’s police public relations officer, who verified the incident.
Odunlami said; “We have begun the search for the suspect, and investigation had commenced into the matter.”