An 85-year-old Gabriel Aifuwa is presently in the custody of the Edo State Police Command for allegedly killing his wife.
The murder suspect, who was paraded alongside other criminal suspects at the command’s headquarters in Benin City, confessed to having macheted his wife over sexual deprivation.
The Police Public Relations Officer of the Edo State Command, Chidi Nwabuzor, said the eighty-five-year-old father of five and grandfather of fifteen, Gabriel Aifuwa, admitted to killing his seventy-year-old wife, Grace Aifuwa, over her refusal to perform her conjugal duties.
This is even as he accused her of infidelity, among other things, including denying him access to their grown-up children.
Speaking with journalists, Gabriel claimed his wife had refused to have s£x with him for a long time but had been sleeping with other men.
“My wife was not listening to me, anytime I ask her to come and sleep with me, she always declines. We have seven children together, five boys and two girls,” he said.
He said he had reported the matter to his children and that one of her daughters came to talk to his wife, but she didn’t listen.
“I reported the matter to my family and her family too 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 for sex, either she would tell me she was sick, or she had an ulcer yet I was hearing rumours that she was sleeping with other men and I don’t have money to carry pr0st!tutes,”
He said following his complaint, his children had refused to send him money as well as picked his calls, alleging that his late wife poisoned their minds toward him.
“So on Saturday last week in the afternoon in the house, I pick up a cutlass and macheted her all over her body. I did it in anger because she was not obeying me, and I want people to know of it.”
He, however, said he regretted k!lling his wife.
