…Says he regrets afterwards
BY MIKE OSAROGIAGBON
Benin City, Edo, Nigeria – An 85-year-old man has allegedly hacked his wife to death for persistently refusing him sexual intercourse in Benin City.
Detectives in the homicide section of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), Edo State Police Command have taken into their custody the suspect and the machete used for the killing.
The suspect, Pa. Gabriel Aifuwa, a father of five children and grandfather of 15 reportedly butchered his wife with a machete in their private residence at Iduowina axis of Aduwawa in Benin City on August 12, 2023.
Pa. Gabriel alleged that his Mrs. Grace Aifuwa, 70, has been refusing him sex for over 10 years as all entreaties by their children and both families to make her perform her conjugal duty, failed.
“My village is Obagie after Ehor in Uhumwonde local government area of Edo State. I married my wife from Isiuwa along new Lagos road after Benin City.
“I married her long time ago, she has two boys and three girls for me and our children also have their own children. Since our children are grown up if I call my wife to come and sleep with me she will say no.
“My first daughter came from her husband’s house to talk to her mother to be sleeping with me. She told her daughter to keep quiet and asked if her daughter is not aware that she has ulcer?
“I am a driver, there is nothing I don’t hear about what my wife does outside. This time around, my children no longer listen to me but their mother and I don’t have money to go for prostitutes. Then, I said one day I will show my wife”, Pa. Gabriel explained.
He however admitted to killing his wife with a machete in their apartment as other occupants were away.
“I used cutlass to kill her since she does not allow me sleep with her, also she has turned my children against me. My family and her own family talked to her she didn’t change.
“After attacking her, I started feeling bad”, Pa. Gabriel Aifuwa narrated.
Contacted, one of Pa. Gabriel’s sons Mr. Uyi said the sex denial issue between his parents had remained irreconcilable for years but his father refused to understand her mother’s health status.
He, however, did not agree with his father’s claim that his children neglected him, of late.
The Public Relations Officer, Edo State Police Command SP Chidi Nwabuzor said the suspect would be arraigned in court as his deceased wife had been deposited in a mortuary.
It would be recalled that one Mrs. Ugieki Asemota, was allegedly beaten to death by her husband, Emmanuel, for refusing him sexual intercourse in their residence on Aibangbe Street in Evbuotubu area of Benin City on Monday, June 28, 2021.
