At Rusororo Sector, Kabuga a Kigali suburb along the Highway to Eastern Province highway, Police have detained a man(photo above) for brutally cutting to death his wife with a machete due to a dispute over cash equivalent to Frw5000.
According to the police statement, Philbert Bazatoha, a 28 year old resident of Bumbogo sector, Gasabo district, used a machete to hack his wife to death. He also chopped off his mother in law’s arm.
The incidence happened after the father of the seven month old baby wrangled with the wife after she used Frw5000 that he had given her. It is said that the lady was brutally punished and she took refugee to her mother’s house.
In the statement Bazatoha told the police that, he tried on several occasions to talk to his wife to end the dispute but in vain. “I tried to convince her to return back home but she could heed saying that she was still praying about it.
“She could not accept us to get divorced a situation that left me in limbo.”
After a time of misunderstandings, Bazatoha further took his wife’s cloths to her as a way to show his resolve but had also carried a machete.
As they argued over the issue Bazatoha snapped killing his wife and severely injuring the mother-in-law.
“I had planned that if she refused to come with me I would kill her,” Bazatoha confidently confessed before police.
Police Spokesperson Superintendent Theos Badege said that there was no plausible reason or explanation for one to kill the wife noting that domestic crimes were a result of family wrangles and called on Rwandans to share such information very fast to help prevent grave criminal activities that may arise.
“Rwandans should always try to amicably solve any disputes that may arise within their families and where impossible seek outside intervention from courts of law or even arbitration,” Badege appealed.
Badege further urged Rwandans to use machetes in productive ways and avoid using them to take life or injure others.
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