“Pastors Were Sleeping With Her”: 84-Year-Old Edo Man Kills 75-Year-Old Wife for Refusing to Sleep With Him

“Pastors Were Sleeping With Her”: 84-Year-Old Edo Man Kills 75-Year-Old Wife for Refusing to Sleep With Him

  • An 84-year-old man, Gabriel Ahuwa, has confessed that he killed his wife for refusing to sleep with him
  • The octogenarian, who the police have arrested, said he heard that pastors were sleeping with his wife
  • The suspect said he killed his 75-year-old wife with a cutlass out of anger for always denying him intimacy

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Edo state, Benin City - An 84-year-old man in Edo state, Gabriel Ahuwa, has been arrested by the police for allegedly killing his 75-year-old wife for refusing to sleep with him.

The state police spokesperson, SP Chidi Nwabuzor, disclosed this while parading Ahuwa and 197 other suspects, PM News reported.

Police arrested 84-year-old Edo man who killed 75-year-old wife for refusing to sleep with him/ 84-year-old man, Gabriel Ahuwa arrested for killing his 75-year-old wife in Edo state
Police arrest 84-year-old Edo man who killed his 75-year-old wife for refusing to sleep with him. Photo Credit: Nigeria Police Force
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Ahuwa accused his late wife of sleeping with pastors while she denied him intimacy anytime he asked her for it.

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The father of seven children confessed to killing his wife with a cutlass out of anger.

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He said:

“So on Saturday last week in the afternoon, in the house, I picked up a cutlass and [cut] her all over her body. I did it in anger because she is not obeying me and I want people to know of it.”

He stated this while speaking with journalists while being paraded by the police.

Pastors were sleeping with my wife

The octogenarian alleged that pastors were sleeping with his wife, and he didn't have money to patronise prostitutes.

He added:

“My wife is not listening to me, anytime I asked her to come and sleep with me she always declines. We have seven children together, five boys and t*o girls.

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“I reported the matter to my family and her family, but she failed to listen to them and continue her old ways, and I was hearing information that pastors were sleeping with her.
“Each time I demanded for s*x, either she would tell me she is sick or she has an ulcer, yet I am hearing rumour that she is sleeping with other men and I don’t have money to carry prostitutes.”

Nigerians react

Glory Momojimoh commented on Facebook:

"I wonder how their youth life was for such to happen in their old age."

Blessing Kelechi said:

"That's insanity who's running after a 75yr old woman and married. Lord please purify our land."

Josephmmaduabuchi Ezeh Onwe said:

"I'm still saying it. Make sure the following three qualities are in the man or woman you want to marry.
1. God's-Fearing
2. Shame
3. Living conscience"

Zainab Haruna Evang said:

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"This is high-level of wickedness not everybody that is Pastor is called by God."

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Meanwhile, Legit.ng reported that suspected assassins invaded the God’s Vineyard of Grace Dominion Assembly and attacked the church pastor, Reverend Samuel Chinyereugo, in Benin, Edo State.

In the process, they shot and killed Mrs Peace Chinyereugo, the pastor's wife.

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A labourer, Muhammed Musa, has confessed that he macheted a pastor, Dada Itopa, on his farm in Ipele, Owo council area of Ondo state, because a herbalist demanded a fresh human head from him.

According to a report on Monday, August 14, the pastor’s wife, Bose Dada, was also injured in the horrific attack.

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