Ololade Adeyanju/
For killing her 52-year-old husband, a Lagos lawyer, Udeme Otike-Odibi, will continue to stay in jail till justice is served.
That was the order at Igbosere High Court in Lagos on Monday.
The 48-year-old lawyer, who chopped off her husband’s penis after she killed him, would stay at Kirikiri prison till hearing continues on October 8, 2018.
Udeme was arraigned by the Lagos State Government on a two-count charge of murder and misconduct with regard to a corpse.
She however pleaded not guilty to the charge.
The Lagos State Prosecutor, Mr Sunmonu Babatunde, had told the court that the accused committed the alleged offences on May 3, at Diamond Estate, Sangotedo, Lekki, Lagos.
He said that the accused stabbed her husband and mutilated his corpse by cutting his genitals.
The offences contravened Sections 165 (b) and 223 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.
Section 165 (b) provides five-year imprisonment while Section 223 is punishable by death.
Justice Adedayo Akintoye, however remanded the accused in prison and adjourned the case until October 8 and 9 for hearing.
The accused first appeared before a Yaba Magistrates’ Court and was remanded in prison pending the Directorate of Public Prosecutions legal advice.
The late husband, Symphorosa Otike-Odibi, also a lawyer, was the second person killed by a female lawyer recently.
The first lawyer to commit the crime was Mrs. Yewande Oyediran, who was with the Oyo State Ministry of Justice.
Yewande stabbed her husband, Lowo Oyediran Ajanaku, 38, to death in their Akobo Estate home in Ibadan, Oyo State on February 2, 2016, after she found out that he fathered a child through another woman.