In Edo, an elderly man is accused of hacking his 75-year-old wife to death because she refused to have sex with him. Each time I asked her to sleep with me, she said she had an ulcer.

An elderly man named Gabriel Ahuwa, 84, has been detained by the Edo State Police Command on suspicion of murdering his 75-year-old wife by slashing her to death with a machete.

 

Ahuwa was one of the 198 suspects for armed robbery who were paraded by the Command's spokesperson, SP Chidi Nwabuzor, on Wednesday, August 16, 2023. Murder, cultism, illegal gun possession, kidnapping, and more offenses.

 

The suspect has problems with his wife since she won't have sex with him, the PPRO said.

He claimed that the suspect feels no guilt and that what he did was the best way to solve his situation.

 

Gabriel said in a press interview that his wife had been sleeping with other men while she had been defying him for a long time. 

 

"My wife isn't listening to me; whenever I invite her to join me for a night's sleep, she constantly says no. Five of our seven children are boys and two are girls, he stated. 

 

He claimed to have told his children about the situation, and one of her daughters had been to speak with his wife but she had been unresponsive.

"I brought up the issue with my family and her family as well, but she didn't listen to them and carried on with her old habits, and I was hearing rumors that pastors were having affairs with her.

 

Every time I requested sex, she would either claim to be ill or to have an ulcer, but I was hearing rumors that she was having extramarital affairs, and I don't have the money to transport prostitutes. 

 

In response to his complaint, he claimed that his children had stopped sending him money and had stopped returning his calls, stating that his late wife had tainted their perception of him.

So I picked up a cutlass on Saturday last week in the afternoon and macheted her all over her body inside the house. She is not following my commands, so I did it out of rage and to let everybody know,"

 

But he said that he was sorry for killing his wife. 

 

One of his sons, who yearned for anonymity, refuted the claim that their father had been abandoned by noting that they had sent him money five days earlier.