40-year-old Man Murders his wife and child due to economic recession, says he can only cater for himself

Dominic Iyayi,  a 40-year-old man from Okpoma  village in Yala local government area of Cross river state, has murdered his wife and their only child.

Ogar is alleged to have committed the act on October 8th, 2016, in Mpape Abuja. It was learnt that the suspect who slept with his wife, and child together in their apartment,  suddenly woke up at night and stabbed them both.

According  to the Commisioner of police, Federal Capital Territory Command, the suspect,  Mr Mohammed Mustapha, took the dead victims  to a primary school close to his house and dumped them there with a written note beside the dead bodies.

Having done the evil deed,  he ran off into the bush and went into hiding. A man identified  as his neighbor  Destiny Onwusuaka,  noticed a trail of blood which he traced to Mr Ogah ‘s house.

David said he searched the house but only saw a pool of blood with no bodies, he went further in search of the blood trail and found the corpses where the husband had dropped the bodies of his victims.

A search was declared for Mr Ogah,  and he was apprehended after four days at a farm on October 11,2016.

At the Criminal Investigative Department of the FCT police command,  the suspect when asked why he perpetrated such an act,  he said, “I don’t have a job,  I cannot feed my family, I can only feed myself, and God should forgive me for what I have done.

I only know what came to my mind,  it was frustration that led me to stab my wife Omago, and  only daughter, Blessing  to enable me survive in my life.”

Mustapha,  said that Mr Ogah,  would be arraigned in court and necessary actions will be taken against the suspect.