How two soldiers allegedly died after a wife broke her marriage vow to have an extramarital affair

A widow who is battling illness has run to a Ghanaian pastor to make a confession and seek refuge after her husband, a military officer, and another officer, who was her late husband's colleague, died as a result of her infidelity.

According to Enyonam, her husband travelled on a peacekeeping mission for more than one year, and in his absence, she couldn't control her sexual desires, so she had an affair with another military officer who also lived in the barracks to satisfy herself.

Enyonam, who ran to Prophet Prince Elisha Osei Kofi's confession show, explained that upon her husband's return from peacekeeping, she was afraid to fulfil her duties as a married person to him because of her infidelity, which was tied to a vow made during their union.

Per her explanation, Ewes has a tradition where a married woman is not supposed to have extramarital affairs, and if such a thing happens and the wife fulfils her duties to the husband, including cooking and sexual intercourse, either the man falls sick or runs mad.

"I came here because I sinned against my husband, a soldier. He travelled for one year on a peacekeeping mission, and I slept with someone else who was also a soldier in the barracks. So, when he came back, I was afraid to tell him because I am an Ewe, and before we marry, they give us a stool to sit on as a vow to remain faithful to our husbands," she said.

Gripped with fear of losing her husband, she resorted to her sister cooking for her husband while he was at work. Upon his return, he ate the food without knowing who prepared it, and she also refused sexual encounters with him.

"I wanted to tell him and plead, but I couldn't, so I kept quiet. And because of that, I couldn't cook for him or have sex with him because if I did, he would go mad or fall sick. So, I resorted to one of my sisters to cook for him," she narrated.

Enyonam added that upon gathering the courage to confide in a friend about what she had done and its possible consequences due to the vow, the friend disputed the tradition, asserting that it was a mere saying and that the fears were embedded in them to avoid such actions.

Convinced by her friend, she then began performing her normal duties as a wife, including sexual intercourse, which allegedly led to her husband falling sick and eventually dying after several efforts to save him from hospital to hospital failed.

"I told one of my friends about the situation and, per our culture, the consequence, but she said it is an African belief, so I shouldn't be African, and I went ahead to perform my marital duties.

"He later fell sick, and we went to most hospitals, but he couldn't survive and died."

Following her husband's funeral, she returned to the soldier she was involved with to resume their relationship. Enyonam stated that the man in question also got ill and later succumbed.

Gripped with fear, Enyonam, who is also feeling a similar illness that killed her husband and the other soldier, has run to the pastor to confess and seek refuge.

"After his funeral, I continued my affair with the soldier. I dreamt one day and saw my husband playing football with him, and my boyfriend booted my husband in the dream and got a red card.

"Later, he also fell sick and died. Now I am also sick, and I'm scared. I don't know if my boyfriend's wife is behind my illness or if it is a result of my actions because she once warned me about her husband," she added.

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