Pandemonium As Farmer Hacks Wife With Cutlass, C©mmits Suicide Over Infidelity In Edo
There was pandemonium in Edo state as a farmer, identified as Friday Omosigho committed suicide after attacking his wife with a cutlass before committing suicide over alleged infidelity.
According to reports, the incident happened at Ehiozevbaru Village in the Uhunmwode Local Government Area of Benin City, the state capital.
“The deceased took the matter to the village meeting where some elders intervened to resolve the issue”. A source told Punch.
“Unsatisfied with the elders’ verdict, he attacked his wife with a machete on the farm and abandoned her in the pool of blood to die.
“He then called his younger brother that he had killed his wife and went home to commit suicide by drinking sniper.”
The Edo State Police Command’s spokesperson, Chidi Nwabuzor, who confirmed the incident, said the man drank a substance suspected to be the insecticide, ‘sniper.’
He said the Divisional Police Officer of Egba Police Division received a call from one Monday Omosigho that he received a distress call that his junior brother, Friday had committed suicide.
“The wife, who was still alive, was taken to the hospital where she is receiving treatment”. A police statement said.
“Investigation on the matter is ongoing and the case has been transferred to the homicide department of the state command,” the PPRO added.
