A man identified as David Fasasi Azeez has fled his home in the Ushafa community of Bwari Area Council, FCT, after allegedly beating and injuring his wife, Mrs. Charity Olotu Fasasi.
The assault reportedly occurred after she allegedly aborted a pregnancy.
According to a neighbour of the victim, Mrs. Grace Benjamin, the incident happened on Friday night at the couple’s residence.
Mrs. Benjamin, who spoke to our reporter on Monday, said the man beat his wife-a mother of four-after discovering she had taken drugs to terminate the pregnancy.
The neighbour explained that a misunderstanding arose because the husband had asked his wife to keep the pregnancy.
‘You know the woman is my close neighbour, and before she aborted the pregnancy, the husband had even before now supported her, but along [the] line, the man later changed his mind and asked her not to abort the pregnancy,’ she said.
Mrs. Benjamin added that, ‘Until on Friday night when I started hearing screaming from the house and i rushed over to discover that the man was beating his wife with blood all over her face.’
According to her, the beating reportedly led to bleeding from the wife’s mouth.
”Upon hearing about the incident, the woman’s parents rushed her to a health centre in the community,” she added,
According to Mrs. Benjamin, the husband, a furniture maker in Ushafa, fled the house after receiving information that the police were coming to arrest him.
Abuja Metro gathered that the couple had been arguing about the pregnancy for over two weeks. The man is reportedly yet to return home since Friday night, and the police are said to be tracking him.
When contacted, the spokesperson of the FCT police command, SP Adeh Josephine, said the incident has not been reported at the command.
‘You know anything that has to do with domestic violence, they hardly report it to the police, but let me find out from the DPO, and I will get back to you later,’ she stated.