Police in Ondo State are on the trail of an ex-police officer, Tajudeen Adeniyi, over an attempt to kill his wife, Moyosola, by macheting her, inflicting a 10-centimetre deep gash on her head.
The 38-year-old suspect took to his heels immediately he inflicted the injury on his wife who has had four children for him. Adeniyi, according to investigation, has gone underground following the hint he got that the family of the wife had reported the incident to the Police.
Consequently, the Police have combed the houses of his friends and family members to no avail. Narrating her ordeal to newsmen on her hospital bed, yesterday, Moyosola said her husband abandoned the house for another woman since November 2012. She alleged that her husband invaded her apartment at Plaza area of Akure at about 11 p.m on Wednesday and attacked her.