“Yes, I have killed the woman that messed up my life; the
woman that has destroyed me. I am at Shalom West. My name is David and I am all
yours.” Those were David Ochola’s words during his 911 (U.S. Emergency Number)
call to authorities after shooting dead, his 28 years old wife, Priscilla
Ochola, in Hennepin, Minnesota. The couple had two children – four years old
boy and a three year old girl.
The 50-years old, husband was tired of being
“disrespected” by his wife, a Registered Nurse (RN) whom he had brought from
Nigeria and sponsored through nursing school only to have her make much more
than him in salary – a situation which led to Mrs. Ochola “coming and going as
she chose without regard for her husband.”
In Texas, Babajide Okeowo had been separated from his
wife, Funke Okeowo, with whom he resided at their Dallas home. Upon the
divorce, the husband lost the house to his wife, along with most of the
contents therein, as is usually the tradition in the U.S. Divorces where the
couple still has underage children. Mr.
Okeowo, 48, divorced his wife because not long after she became an RN and made
more money than him, she “took control” of the family finances and “controlled”
her husband’s expenditure and movement. The husband could no longer make any
meaningful contribution to his family back in Nigeria unless the wife
“approved” it. He could not go out without her permission. Frustrated that his
formerly malleable wife had suddenly become such a “terror” to him to the point
of asking for in court and getting virtually everything for which he had worked
since coming to the US thirty years prior, the husband got in his vehicle and
drove a few hundred miles to Dallas to settle the scores.
He found her in her SUV, adorned in full Nigerian attire
on her way to the birthday bash organized in her honor. She had turned 46 on
that day. Mr. Okeowo fired several rounds into his wife’s torso while she sat
at the steering wheel, mercilessly killing her in broad daylight.
Also in Dallas (they sure need anger management classes
in Dallas), Moses Egharevba, 45, did not even bother to get a gun. The husband
of Grace Egharevba, 35, bludgeoned her to death with a sledge hammer while
their seven year old daughter watched and screamed for peace. Mrs. Egharevba’s
“sin” was that she became an RN and started to make more money than her
husband. This led to her “financial liberation” from a supposedly tight-fisted
husband who had not only brought her from Nigeria, but had also funded her
nursing school education.
Like Moses Egharevba, Christopher Ndubuisi of Garland,
Texas, (these Texas people!) also did not bother to get a gun. He crept into
the bedroom where his wife, Christiana, was sleeping and, with several blows of
the sledge hammer, crushed her head. Two
years before Christiana was killed, her mother, who had been visiting from
Nigeria, was found dead in the bathtub under circumstances believed to be
suspicious.
Of course, Christiana was a RN whose income dwarfed that
of her husband as soon as she graduated from nursing school. The husband
believed that his role as a husband and head of the household had been usurped
by his wife. Mr. Ndubuisi’s several entreaties to his wife’s family to
intercede and bring Christiana back under his control had all failed.
If the circumstances surrounding the death of
Christiana’s mother were suspicious, those surrounding the death of a Tennessee
woman’s mother were not. Agnes Nwodo, an RN, lived in squalor before her
husband, Godfrey Nwodo, rescued her and brought her to the US. He enrolled her
in nursing school right away. Upon qualifying as a RN, Mrs. Nwodo assumed “full
control” of the household. She brought her mother to live with them against her
husband’s wishes. Mrs. Nwodo quickly familiarized herself with US Family Laws
and took full advantage of them. Each time the couple argued, the police forced
the husband to leave the house whether he had a place to sleep or not. On many
occasions, Mr. Nwodo spent days in police cells. Upon divorcing his wife, Mr.
Nwodo lost to his wife, the house he had owned for almost 20 years before he
married her. He also lost custody of their three children to her, with the
court awarding him only periodic visitation rights. Even seeing the children
during visitation was always a hassle as the wife would “arrive late at the
neutral meeting place and leave early with impunity.” Mr. Nwodo endured so many
embarrassing moments from his wife and her mother until he could take it no
more. One day, he bought himself a shotgun and killed both his wife and her
mother.
Caleb Onwudike’s wife, Chinyere Onwudike, 36, became a RN
and no longer saw the need to be controlled by her husband. Mr. Onwudike, 41,
worked two jobs to send his wife to her dream school upon bringing her to the
US from Nigeria. After four years, she qualified as an RN. Once she started to
make more money than her husband, she began to “call the shots” at home. She
“overruled” her husband on the size and cost of the house they purchased in
Burtonsville, Maryland. She began to build a house solely in her name in their
native Umuahia town of Abia State, Nigeria, without her husband’s input
whatsoever. Mrs. Onwudike came and went “as she liked,” within the US and
outside the US. In fact, she once travelled to Nigeria for three weeks “without
her husband’s permission” to lavishly bury her father, despite her husband’s
protestations that they had better things to do with the money.
Mrs. Onwudike let
her husband know that this was mostly her money and she would spend it however
she wanted. Through her hard work, she had risen to a managerial position at
the medical center where she worked. Upon her return from burying her father,
her husband got one of her kitchen knives and carved her up like a Thanksgiving
turkey inside their home on New Year’s Day.
Death is death, no matter how it comes. But the goriest
of these maniacal killings is probably the one that happened here in Los
Angeles, California. Joseph Mbu, 50, was tired of his RN wife’s “serial
disrespect” of him. The disrespect began as soon as she became a RN. Gloria
Mbu, 40, had once told her husband he must be “smoking crack cocaine” if he
thought he could tell her what to do with her money now that she made more
money than him. Before she became a RN, Mr. Mbu had been very strict with
family finances and was borderline dictatorial in his dealings with Mrs. Mbu.
However, Mrs. Mbu learned the American system and would no longer allow any man
to “put her down.” When Joseph Mbu could not take it anymore, he subdued his
wife one day, tied her to his vehicle and dragged her on paved roads all around
Los Angeles until her head split in many pieces.
Courtesy: lindaikejisblog
