A farmer identified as Friday Omosigho, has committed suicide after attacking his wife with a machete over alleged infidelity in Ehiozevbaru village in Uhunmwode LGA of Edo state.
DailyTrust reports that the deceased had accused his wife, Mercy Omosigho, of having affairs with other men. The farmer took the matter to the village meeting, where some elders intervened to resolve the dispute in the family. Unsatisfied by the verdict of the elders, the deceased reportedly attacked his wife with a machete, stabbing her several times all over the body on the farm, and abandoned her in a pool of her blood. He allegedly called his younger brother and told him that he had stabbed his wife and then went back home and drank rat poison.
Confirming the incident, the spokesperson of the state police command, SP Chidi Nwabuzor, said the man drank a substance suspected to be 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 senior brother, Friday Omosigho, committed suicide by drinking Sniper, after matcheting his wife over infidelity. Nwabuzor said the police moved to the scene and took the woman to hospital.
“The woman, who is still alive, was taken to the hospital, where she is receiving treatment.”he said
He said the investigation into the matter is ongoing and that the case has been transferred to the homicide department of the command.