The Zone II Command of the Police has summoned a retired Navy Captain, Diamond Onoberhie, for allegedly battering his wife and abducting his 10-year-old son from school.
Onoberhie’s invitation by the police followed a recent report by The Point detailing how the retired Navy Captain allegedly threw out his wife and children from the family’s Alagomeji, Yaba, Lagos home, sold off the property and relocated them to an uncompleted building in Badagry, a suburb. Our correspondent gathered from a reliable source that the police summoned the former military officer along with his wife, Oviguerie, and his father in-law, who is a retired Navy Admiral.
The source said that the Navy captain appeared at the police command last Tuesday and was quizzed on the allegation levelled against him by his wife.
It was, however, gathered that during his interrogation by the police, the retired Navy Captain also declined to answer questions on the whereabouts of his 10-year-old son he allegedly abducted some months ago.
While speaking with his wife on the phone, the woman was not pleased with him
“He was at the Zone 2 Police Command on Tuesday after he was summoned by the police. His wife, too, was there. But his father-in-law, who is also a retired Navy Admiral, was not around.
After series of questions, the police asked them to reappear for questioning along with his father in-law, because he also accused his father inlaw of some allegations of misconduct,” the source said.
When contacted, Mrs. Onoberhie confirmed the new development to our correspondent, saying, “Yes, we were truly invited, but no result yet and my son has not been rescued from him (Navy Captain). When he was asked questions about my son, he didn’t say anything. He refused to talk. Later the police asked us to come back, along with my father.”
Meanwhile, the retired Naval officer has reportedly been searching for his estranged wife and other children, following the report published by The Point over his alleged ill-treatment of them. He was said to have visited the uncompleted building in Badagry where he had earlier allegedly dumped his wife, after selling their only family house.
Worried about his wife’s absence from the uncompleted building in Badagry, when he went there to see her, Onoberhie was said to have made phone calls to her, pleading with her on the whereabouts of his other children.
A source, who spoke with our correspondent, said, “The retired captain was not sure of what could become of him since the case had been published in the newspaper, and so he decided to check if the woman was in the house to appease her.
“While speaking with his wife on the phone, the woman was not pleased with him, especially with the abduction of the family’s last son, Dominic. So, she was asking him about the boy and the man, in return, was demanding for his other grown-up children.
The conversation didn’t end well as the Captain later accused his father-in-law of being the cause of his marital problem.”
Mrs. Onoberhie confirmed this development to our correspondent, saying her husband claimed to have come to look for her in the uncompleted building where he had dumped her.
“He called me a day after I saw the report published in The Point newspaper. He was asking me where I was. But all I asked him about was my son, who he didn’t say anything about,” she said.
