Man kills wife, daughter

…Says, ‘I can only feed myself’

A 40-year-old man from Okpoma village
in Yala Local Government Area, Cross
River State, Dominic Iyayi Ogar, has
thrown his in-laws into mourning
following the gruesome murder of his wife
and their only daughter.
Ogar is alleged to have committed the
dastardly act on October 8, 2016 in
Mpape, Abuja. Sunday Sun reporter learnt
from the Commissioner of Police, Federal
Capital Territory Command, Mr.
Mohammed Mustafa, that Ogar, who slept
with his wife and their only daughter on
the same bed, woke up suddenly in the
middle of the night, took a knife and
stabbed both of them to death, and they
died instantly.
Mustafa said that Ogar then carried the
corpses of the dead 27-year-old wife,
Omago and the daughter, two-year-old
Blessing to a nearby nursery and primary
school in the area; he allegedly wrote a
small note and dropped it beside the
corpses and then ran off to hide in his
farm.
His evil deed, however, came to light
when one of his neighbours, Destiny
Onwusuaka, noticed a trail of blood that
led to the door of the family house. In a
chat with Sunday Sun reporter,
Onwusuaka said: “It was around 7:00am
when I discovered stains of blood on the
floor and followed the trail to the door of
Ogar. When I looked into the room, I saw
a pool of blood but I didn’t see the
husband or the victims.
“It was later that I saw the two corpses
where the husband dropped them. I
shouted and called our neighbours. We
then ran to the police to report what we
saw. We started searching for the
husband. It took four days before we
found him and arrested him in his farm on
October 11, 2016.
Following the arrest of the suspect, the
corpses of the deceased were moved to
the mortuary of the National Hospital,
Abuja.
At the Criminal Investigation Department
of the FCT Police Command, where he
spoke with Sunday Sun, Ogar 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 don’t know what came to my mind; it
was frustration that led me to stab my
wife and only daughter to enable me
survive in life.”
As it stands now, Mustafa said that
Ogar’s hope of surviving in life now lies at
the discretion of the court where he
would soon be arraigned to answer
charges.