By Abiodun Ladepo
"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 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.” The couple had two children – four years old boy and a three
years old girl.
*Some Nigerian Nurses In The US
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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 U.S. divorces where the couple
still has underage children. Mr. Okeowo, 48, divorced his wife because
not long after she became a 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.