Man kills wife in Lagos for allegedly infecting him with HIV

Philip Katongu (pictured above) from Wamba,
Nasarawa State has been arrested for allegedly
stabbing his wife to death, Punch reports.
According to reports, Katongu stabbed his wife
to death in a street at Oniru Estate, Maroko,
Lagos, where they lived. Police say she was
stabbed at least three times. After he was
arrested by operatives of the Department of
Criminal Investigations, Yaba, Lagos, Katongu,
45, claimed he killed her because she infected
him with HIV and then wanted to leave him for
another man. He explained:
"I married Justina, my second wife in
December 2010. I later learnt that she
had given birth to two girls for a man. The
girls died of AIDS. However, when we first
met, she did not tell me all these. I
explained to her that I have a wife with
children and I wanted to marry her too.
Before marriage, I told her we should go
to hospital to conduct HIV test, but she
refused and said that she was HIV
negative. So we started sleeping
together.”
Katongu claimed that without his
knowledge, his wife had been going to
Abuja for medical treatment every three
months for HIV, until March 2013 when
she took him along.
He said it was at the hospital that she
disclosed her HIV status to him.
“I was angry and told the doctor who
equally blamed her for not disclosing it to
me. The doctor then tested me, and I was
positive. We came back to Lagos and
continued with the relationship because I
loved her. But suddenly, she told me she
wanted to pack out from my house that
she was no longer interested in marrying
me having had another person in Abuja.
In fact, the man usually called her on
phone while we were together.
“I told her that with her status, she
should not go and be infecting people
with the virus. And that I will kill her and
kill myself. We started fighting and I
stabbed her. It was in the early hours. I
stabbed her three times with a knife. She
shouted and people were knocking at our
door.
After she died, I stabbed myself, and the
people broke the door open. I woke up to
find myself in a hospital. I feel very bad
that I killed my wife. I loved her very
much.”