A popular United kingdom trained investigative journalist and publisher, Mr Cletus Opukeme has cried out that his life is endangered by his estranged wife and needs urgent help.
Cletus Opukeme was said to have sent an urgent SMS, Save my soul ‘SOS’ to the Divisional Police Officer ( DPO) Agbarho Police Station, Ughelli North LGA, Delta State over frequent verbal and physical threats to his life.
Happiness Opukeme, an Ikwere by tribe from Rivers State, the estranged wife of Cletus Opukeme has three children for him in their ten years of relationship.
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According to the man, his estranged wife is highly violent, terribly hot-tempered, and physically strong, and she had attacked him on several occasions over a minor misunderstanding from which he escaped death due to his knowledge in the act of self-defense.
He said:
“This cannot continue with a woman turning his house to ring. If she does not kill me, I will kill while defending myself. Any woman that first attacks her husband is demonic and possessed.”
He recalled how the police had questioned Happiness sometime in February 2022 following a similar threat to his life. The wife then was compelled by the police to make a written undertaking over her actions.
Further revealing the reason for her actions, he confessed that both had court marriage, believing that after his death, she will stand as claimant to his property. The victim said the accused had repeatedly stated this in almost each of her squabbles or misunderstandings with him.
The SOS to the police DPO read:
” My wife threats and often boasted to murder me is terribly unbecoming therefore if anything happens to me, she should be held responsible.”
Opukeme told this news house that he has consulted his lawyer to file a formal divorce suit to be separated from his estranged who was said to be extremely violent and toxic.
However, he said he had other genuine grounds to divorce his estranged wife apart from the threat to his life.
That she had also deprived him of his conjugal rights for over a year even while living under the same roof thereby suspecting unfaithfulness on her part just as all marriage understanding is non-existent for over the same time duration.
He is begging his estranged wife not to cut his life short over his little property just because he is a calm and peaceful man who abhors violence against women generally and an advocate against such.
That he may give her the property to start a new life in a rented apartment with another calm and cool-headed woman that will give him peace if need be.
He urgently pleads with the police to save him from the criminal and life-threatening violence intermittently visited on him by his rigid volatile and highly temperamental wife before she eventually takes his life.
Last week, he had a misunderstanding with her where he escaped an attack that attracted the local vigilante to intervene and arrested her for extreme violence by destroying his house’s glass windows and water taps.
She was detained for about 8 hours and released the same day and thereafter, issued a verbal threat to take his life.
Happiness had abandoned her three children, with the last being a two-year-old baby boy.
Happiness Opukeme’s whereabouts were still unknown as of press time.
