Housewife who stabbed husband bags 7 years jail term

29-year-old housewife, Onyinyechi Akunne, who was in the
news last year after she stabbed her 35-year-old husband,
Abuchi Akunne to death during an argument at home, over
lotto tickets known as “Baba Ijebu”, has bagged a 7-years
jail sentence.
The judgement was delivered at an Ikeja High Court by
Justice Josephine Oyefeso, following a plea bargain where
the initial charge of murder was changed, to a charge of
causing grievous bodily harm to which she pled guilty.
Justice Josephine Oyefeso also rejected a clause in the plea
bargain agreement where it
was proposed that the housewife should serve a sentence of
community service instead of a prison term.
Before the sentence was pronounced, Akunne’s counsel,
P.O. Onu, in her plea for mercy, told the court to temper
justice with mercy.
“The defendant is a first-time offender, she is a mother of a
toddler which she gave birth to while in prison custody.
Her daughter is a year-and-seven months old, she still has
a lot to offer to the society,” Mrs. Onu said.
The judge ordered that the convict’s daughter after weaning
her, should be removed from the female prison and be kept
in the custody of the relations.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that during Mrs.
Akunne’s arraignment on March 6, the State Prosecutor,
C.K. Tuiyi-Carena, had told the court that the accused
committed the offence on March 28, 2015 at her residence
located at No. 85, Idimu Road, Ejigbo, a suburb of Lagos.