The Kogi State Police Command on Wednesday paraded some suspected criminals including one Abdullahi Garba who allegedly stabbed his wife to death over housekeeping allowance. The Deputy Commissioner of Police, Yahaya Abubakar, who stood in for his boss, Wilson Inalegwu, said detectives from the Homicide Section of the Okehi Police Division, Okehi Local Government Area of the state, arrested the suspect over the murder of his wife, Falilat Saka Garba (29).

He said the case was reported to the police by one Obavidi Momoh Salami, adding that the suspect admitted that he stabbed his wife during argument over housekeeping allowance. The DCP said the man would be charged to court as soon as result of the post -mortem examination is received. The couple had a male child, aged six. The accused told The Nation he was provoked into the act.

Garba said the deceased slapped him over his inability to meet her N4,000 request on that fateful day. He said: “We quarreled over the money. We were eating and she demanded for money. I had N2,000, minus the N500 we used to eat that night. She had never raised her hand against me before, but that day, she got up and slapped me. She demanded N4,000 but I did not have up to that amount. “My wife had been advising me to go into robbery because my work brings in pittance, but I always urged her to be patient.” He said the couple’s only child is presently staying with his late wife’s family in Okene.

The Nation