The Edo State Police Command has arrested an Octogenarian identified as Gabriel Ahuwa, 84, for allegedly hacking his 75-year-old wife to death with a machete over her refusal to have sex with him.

Ahuwa was among the 198 suspects paraded on Wednesday, August 16, 2023, by the Command’s spokesperson, SP Chidi Nwabuzor.

According to Nwabuzor, the suspect has been having issues with his wife for refusing to have sex with him. He said the suspect is not remorseful and that he felt what he has done is the best solution to his problem.

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Speaking with newsmen, the suspect claimed his wife had refused to have sex with him for a long time but had been sl£eping with other men.

“My wife is 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.