SALAMI ANEDU, 21, arrested for allegedly killing his wife, Esther Friday, 21, has denied any involvement in the alleged criminal act.
The Edo State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), SP Chidi Nwabuzor, had said that Salami was arrested on 30 August by the Fugar division of the state Police Command.
SP Nwabuzor said one Aluaye Momoh on 29 August reported to the police that Salami Anedu used a stick to kill his wife, Esther in their house at Ugbekpe Community, Edo State, over a misunderstanding on family issues.
The spokesperson said the suspect hit his wife with a wood during the misunderstanding and she died in the process.
He said the police stormed the scene and arrested the suspect while the corpse was taken to Fugar General Hospital mortuary.
He said the case had been transferred to the homicide section of the State Criminal Investigation Department, Benin, for discreet investigation.
However, in an interview with journalists, the suspect, who was paraded alongside other suspects arrested for allegedly being involved in various crimes in the state, said although he quarrelled with his wife for not giving him food after cooking that he knows nothing about her death.
According to him, “She cooked rice and she said I shouldn’t eat from the food. I went to cook yam and egg on my own, she said I couldn’t eat the food. As I was eating the food, she started quarrelling with me and threatened to bring her brother to my house and beat me up. She left.
“I thought she was joking but she came back with two of her brothers who were armed with sticks and they started fighting me. After the fight, my wife went to my mother’s house to pass the night but I was surprised when vigilante came to arrest me that I killed my wife.
“I didn’t kill my wife. I didn’t hit her with wood. It was her brother that came to my house with wood but because I dragged with them, they said I was the one that killed her. My wife was sick before.”
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