Salami Anedu, 21, was detained by the police in Edo State for reportedly killing his wife, Esther Friday, 21, after an argument over food.
Along with other suspects detained for various crimes in the state, the suspect was paraded by the Edo State Police Command.
Anedu was taken into custody by men from the Fugar Police Division on August 30, according to SP Chidi Nwabuzor, the state police public relations officer.
He claimed that during an argument at their home in the Ugbekpe neighborhood, Anedu killed his wife with a stick, which one Aluaye Momoh allegedly reported to the police.
He said that the matter was given to the State Criminal Investigation Department of Benin’s Homicide Section for review.
While denying killing his wife in a press conference, the suspect said they had a fight about food.
She made the rice and told me not to eat any of it, the man remarked. She told me I couldn’t consume the meal when I tried to make yam and an egg on my own. She started arguing with me while I was still eating the food and threatened to bring her brothers over to beat me up.
I assumed she was making fun of me. She returned, however, carrying two of her brothers who were carrying sticks, and they immediately began to assault me. My wife left the battle to spend the night at my mother’s house, so I was shocked when vigilantes came to arrest me for her murder.
“I didn’t hit my wife with a piece of wood or kill my wife. Her brothers were the ones who brought wood to my house, but because I dragged myself along with them, they claimed I was the one who killed her. My wife was previously ill.
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