The Edo State Police Command has paraded Gabriel Uhuwa, an 84-year old man in the state, for allegedly killing his wife, a 75-year-old woman, for refusing to have sex with him.
The command Public Relations Officer, Chidi Nwabuzor, in the course of parading 198 suspects arrested for various offences ranging from armed robbery, cultism, kidnapping, unlawful possession of firearms, and murder, among others, said Uhuwa has had running battles with his late wife over her refusal to have sex with him whenever he demands it.
The command PR0 said the octagenrian wasn’t remorseful for his act and considered his action to be the only solution to his problem with his wife.
In his chat with pressmen at the force command, Uhuwa said his wife wasn’t listening to him whenever he asked her to come and sleep with him, adding that they have seven children, five boys and two girls.
The suspect said, “I reported the matter to my family and her family members, but she failed to listen to them and continued her old ways, and I was hearing information that pastors were sleeping with her. Each time I demanded sex, either she would tell me she was sick or she had an ulcer, yet I was hearing a rumour that she was sleeping with other men, and I don’t have money to carry prostitutes,” he reveals.
According to him, he said because of his complaint, his children had refused to send him money as well as taking his calls, accusing his late wife of poisoning their thinking towards him.
On how he killed his wife, he said “So, on Saturday last week in the afternoon in the house, I picked up a cutlass and macheted her. I did it in anger because she was not obeying me and I want people to know of it,” he narrated.