Husband Stabs Wife to Death for Bearing Female Children

48-year-old Alayomide Emmanuel Taki from Abusoro area in Akure, Ondo was arrested and detained at the Ala divisional police station for allegedly killing his heavily pregnant wife during an early morning dispute for not being able to give birth to a male child.

Eye witness accounts say the suspect has been having a running battle with his deceased wife for over two years shortly after the woman gave birth to their fourth daughter.

Sources say trouble began a month ago before the brutal murder when the husband complained
aloud that his deceased wife is incapable of bearing him a male child and the incident led to fierce arguments between the couple.

Neighbours expressed shock and disbelief at the death of the 46 years old deceased simply identified as Mama Feyi and one of their next door neighbour, Mr. Isijola, said he was awakened by loud arguments coming from their room very early in the morning.

“I ignored them as it is a norm for them to always argue and have vehement quarrels. I decided to ignore them at first but when the noise was getting unbearable, I stepped into their room only to find the lifeless body of the woman on the floor, lying in the pool of her blood. I saw the man holding a knife and he threatened to stab me if I don’t leave”.

Isijola continued, “It was when I discovered that he may abscond that I alerted the police who immediately came to arrest him.”

Narrating the incident, daughter of the deceased, Feyisara, said, “It all started on Sunday after my mummy had cooked rice. She asked me to go and collect money from my father to prepare stew and on getting there, he started shouting. But he later gave me N500 which my mum refused to collect. They both argued and had a fight. I had to make a distress call to neighbours to settle the dispute”.

According to Feyisara,

 “the quarrel started at about 6am when my mum asked him to give her some money for her ante-natal but he refused. They started fighting and before we knew it, daddy brought out a knife and stabbed mummy to death.”

Sad indeed!