Couple stab neighbour over chicken

A Lagos based couple has been arrested for allegedly stabbing their neighbour during an argument over fowls

 A 35-year-old man, Charles Christopher, and his 31-year-old wife, Oluseyi, has been arrested by the police in Lagos for allegedly stabbing their neighbour, one Glory Ubi, in the chest following an argument about a fowl in their compound.

The incident, according to the police report, happened on March 16, at Pasheda Awoyaya Street, in the Ibeju Lekki area of the state, when a simple disagreement degenerated into a fight and Ubi, a businesswoman was stabbed in the process.

The victim, in her statement to the police, said she was washing some dishes when she sighted Charles attacking her chickens and breaking their legs.

"I saw him breaking the legs of my chickens for no reason and I confronted him, but instead of apologizing, he shouted at me and stabbed me in the chest.

I went to report the matter to the police and he was arrested. I then went to treat myself, but when I returned home, his wife came after me with a blade, which she used to cut me in the breast.

I started bleeding profusely. She threw stones into my room and broke my television set in the process."

But Oluseyi denied the allegation, saying that when Ubi returned from the hospital after the brawl with her husband, she began to make trouble with her.

"We were both fighting but I don’t know how she came about the cut on her breast and I also did not throw stones into her house or broke her television set."