An 84-year-old husband, Gabriel Ahuwa, has narrated how he killed his 75-year-old wife with cutlass, for denying him sex in Edo State.
The octogenarian was among 198 suspects paraded by the state’s Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), SP Chidi Nwabuzor, yesterday.
According to him, he butchered his wife on Saturday afternoon because she no longer obeyed him nor acceded to his demands for sex.
He said: “In the afternoon of last Saturday, while we were in the house, I picked a cutlass and cut her all over her body. I did it in anger, because she was not obeying me. I wanted people to know of it. I regretted killing my wife, after committing the crime.
“My wife was not listening to me. Anytime I asked her to come and sleep with me, she always declined. We have seven children together, five boys and two girls.
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“I reported the matter to my family and her family, but she failed to listen to them, and continued her old ways.
“I was hearing information that some pastors were sleeping with her.
“Each time I demanded sex, she would either tell me she was sick or she had an ulcer, yet I was hearing rumour that she was sleeping with other men, and I did not have money to carry prostitutes.”
Ahuwa told reporters he reported to his children that his wife was starving him of sex, adding that one of their daughters spoke to her but she did not listen.
He alleged that she also poisoned his children’s mind towards him, saying they neither sent him money nor answered his calls.
But one of his sons, who spoke in confidence, denied the allegation that they abandoned their father, insisting that the children sent him money five days ago.
He said he was surprised that their father had to kill their mother in avoidable anger.
The paraded suspects were arrested for offences such as armed robbery, kidnapping, unlawful possession of firearms, murder and cultism.