A housewife, Favour Nweke, has revealed the reasons for pouring hot groundnut oil on her husband, Ekelediri Nwokekoro, in Okehi in the Etche Local Government Area of Rivers State.

Nweke was earlier arrested by a vigilante group after she fled her home over the incident.

Speaking during her parade before journalists at the Rivers State Police Command’s headquarters in Port Harcourt, the state capital, on Friday, October 13, 2023, the woman said she and her husband have been having issues which she said led to a brawl on the day she poured hot oil on Nwokekoro.

The housewife revealed that the issues started after she confronted her husband on his suspected involvement in illegal activities, including fraud.

The woman said: “He will go out, at about 2 o’clock in the night and will come back early in the morning. Sometimes he would go, and stay two or three days before coming back then I asked him where are you even going?

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“So his friend called me and asked if I had heard what was on the ground, I said ‘What is that?’ He said my husband and some people were involved in one illegal act. He said they called somebody from Abuja that the person should come and work in Etche, and that they have a contract to give to the person and when the person came they duped the person of N20 million.

“I said he didn’t tell me, that was hearing this for the first time, I said ‘No wonder this guy has been acting strange, planning on how to travel and go to one African country’. So this is the reason.

“So when he came back, I grabbed him and said this is what I heard and I confronted him but he refused and we quarrelled. We ended it that day. I then asked him what he did with his own share of the money. I heard some people bought land with their own, so what did you use your own to do?

“As we were dragging that issue that morning, he hit me, I ran into the kitchen with that oil and I poured it on him. That was how it happened.”

Nweke, however, denied the allegation that she had an extramarital affair.

She further pleaded for forgiveness, saying: “I feel bad. Had I known that this thing would turn out like this I would not have done it to him. I will just go to my place and stay. I am begging for Nigerians, you people should forgive me.”

Speaking, the Rivers State Commissioner of Police, Emeka Nwonyi, assured that Nweke would be made to face the consequences of her action.

The Star