Gabriel Uhuwa, 84, was detained by members of the Edo State Police Command after he was accused of killing his wife for refusing to have sex with him.
The command announced the arrest on Wednesday and paraded 198 people detained for offenses ranging from murder and cultism to armed robbery, abduction, and illicit possession of guns.
Uhuwa was allegedly detained for killing his 75-year-old wife because she refused to have sex with him, according to the command’s public relations officer, Chidi Nwabuzor.
Nwabuzor claimed that Uhuwa has been fighting with his wife over her alleged refusal to engage in sexual activity with him whenever he requested it.
The elderly man, according to him, was not regretful and believed that what he had done was the best way to solve his problem.
When addressing the media, Uhuwa remarked, “My wife was not listening to me. She consistently refused my requests to have her join me in bed. Together, we are the parents of seven kids—five boys and two girls.” The suspect claimed that he had brought up the issue with his children and that one of her daughters had come to speak with his wife but she had refused to listen.
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“I told my family and her family about the situation, but she didn’t listen to them and kept acting the same way she always had, and I started hearing rumors that pastors had been having affairs with her.
Every time I demanded 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, the suspect continued.
After filing a complaint, he claimed that his children stopped sending him money and answering his calls because his late wife allegedly brainwashed them against him.
So, I got up a cutlass and macheted her on Saturday last week in the house. I did it out of rage because she wasn’t following me, and I want others to be aware of it, he continued.
But after carrying out the murder, he admitted that he had regrets.
