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Man beats wife to death with pestle in Bayelsa

The Nigerian police on Tuesday paraded suspects at the Bayelsa State police command headquarters in Yenagoa, and amongst them was a 59-year-old man, Christopher Chiabata, who allegedly beat his 41-year-old wife to death.

Chiabata said he murdered his wife at their residence in Onuebum, Ogbia local government area of Bayelsa state in self-defense when both were involved in a fight over money.

He said: “Whenever my wife takes our produce to the market, she does not give me an account of the sales. For two years she refused to give me an account of the money we realized from the farm. So one day, I called her to give me an account and when she refused, we started fighting until neighbors separated us.

In anger, the next day, I asked her to leave the farm business for me to handle alone, one day, when I returned from the farm, she had packed my things out of the house, that day, we fought again and neighbors separated and settled us.

Fed up with the whole development, I asked her to pack out of the house the following day but she refused. Then we started fighting at the point she was stronger than me, so each time we fought, she would beat me mercilessly, this time, as she was beating me, out of anger, I struck her with a pestle.

It was at that point she collapsed, neighbors helped rush her to the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital where she died. When I heard she died, I took sniper in an attempt to kill myself but neighbors were quick to come to my rescue and took me to the hospital.”

Meanwhile, police report also confirmed that Christopher murdered his wife with a pestle and attempted to kill himself with an insecticide sniper, when neighbors intervened and took him to the hospital before handing him over to the police.

Christopher revealed that they had been married for 30 years with five children and had been in this same situation all their life because of the money realized from their farmland.

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