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Domestic Violence: Engineer On The Run After Stabbing Wife, Son
Haruna Emmanuel, a building engineer has reportedly stabbed his wife, Victoria Emmanuel, a 39-year-old woman following her refusal to return home after her husband allegedly tortured her. He also reportedly stabbed his son in the melee.
Victoria who has reportedly been enduring domestic violence since she married her husband 16 years ago, left their home in Kaduna after Haruna almost strangled her last year. A family friend who spoke on condition of anonymity, alleged that Haruna, had visited Victoria at her new apartment in the state capital claiming he came for their kids.
The source said Haruna pleaded with Victoria to return to his house, but she demanded that he signs an undertaking before she would return.
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Giving a narration of how the engineer allegedly stabbed his wife, she said, “What happened was that she was beaten on December 28, 2021. He almost strangled her. She took the case to a human rights group and moved out of his house. Her parents rented another apartment for her. She would have left Kaduna, but she was schooling there.
“This was how she has been coping with the torture since she got married to him 16 years ago. Each time she leaves the house, he will come with different ministers of God to meet her parents and he would cry and vow not to do that again, but it continued.
“He has signed undertakings more than three times, but he never honoured them. He signed an undertaking with her parents, another at Sabo Police Station and one at the DSS office. He refused to sign at the human rights organisation because of the conditions.
“Last Friday, he said he wanted to take his children with him; those children were with him, but he sent them to their mother when they were sick. She didn’t stop him, but he later apologised to her and said he wanted her back in his life.
“She asked him to sign the fourth undertaking; he refused to sign. She refused to move in with him; he left with her second son.”
The victim, Victoria, who was gasping for breath tried speaking with newsmen, according to her, she was about to walk out while her husband was pleading with her to return home when he grabbed her by the neck and stabbed her in the chest and other parts of her body.
Victoria, the wife of the engineer, also claimed that Haruna stabbed their son.
She said, “My son that went with my husband ran back panting and sweating. Shortly his father appeared and started begging me for forgiveness, I told him that I had forgiven him, but can’t stay with him. I was about to walk out when he grabbed me from behind and held me by the neck; he had a knife with him and stabbed me in my right chest with force and shouted, ‘Die!’
“He removed the knife and stabbed me in my left and right hands. He also targeted my neck, but I managed to dodge it. He stabbed me in the back. My son was shouting and begging him not to kill me.
“Neighbours were trying to open the door, but they couldn’t. My son summoned courage to push him away. He used the knife on my son’s stomach. The boy narrowly dodged another attempt to stab him before neighbours came to our rescue.”
According to the family friend, no one has seen Haruna after the incident, adding that the stab injuries on Victoria’s right chest made it difficult for her to breathe properly.
She said “he dropped the knife, his phones, car keys and slippers and took to his heels when neighbours were struggling to keep Victoria alive”.
The suspect could not be reached as he reportedly left his phones at the crime scene, his elder brother, James, declined comment on the matter.
“We are heading for court and everything will be unraveled there,” he added.
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