A 70-year-old man Mr Ita Daniel Okpo who slaughtered his
sleeping wife wife, Alice Ita Daniel, 60, with a machete while she was asleep in
Akwa Ibom has been arrested by the Akwa Ibom Police Command.
Okpo who hails from Mbiokporo in Akwa Ibom was apprehended
in Nsit Ibom Local Government Area of the state after committing the act.
Narrating the incident to journalist on Tuesday, the
Assistant Commissioner of Police, State Criminal Investigation Department, Mike
Okoli, disclosed that Okpo hacked his wife to death while she was asleep.
Okoli averred, “This man, Ita Daniel Okpo, in a most wicked
act, slaughtered his wife with a machete and we arrested him. When asked he
admitted to killing his wife but said the late wife, Alice, always quarrelled
with him and that she was the first to carry machete. Gentlemen, but our
findings revealed that the woman was sleeping when she was hacked to death.”
Okpo who confessed to killing his wife however said he
committed the act because he found out that his wife was sleeping around with
other men.
“I regret my act, but I was forced to kill her because it
was too much on me. In fact, at a point, she openly told me she would rather
kill me than to stop sleeping with these men. To match words with action, she
had been fighting me several times. So, on that fateful day, while we fought, I
killed her,” he said
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