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THE QUEST of a man to keep his flirtatious wife at all cost has landed him in the grips of police. Kofi Ahiatrogah, a 37-year-old carpenter living at Madina Estate, has been caged in the Madina District Police Cells over the alleged murder of Michael Denyo, a 35-year-old taxi driver. Narrating the incident that led to the death of Denyo, the Madina District Police Commander, Chief Superintendent Joseph Owusu Bempah, said the suspect was the husband of Mary Agbenu, a 26-year-old seamstress apprentice. The couple has a child from their eight-year marriage which has been bedeviled with accusations and counter accusations of flirts and irresponsibility. About two years ago, Mary used to sell around the Social Welfare area where the deceased plied his taxi trade. Ahiatrogah, over a period of time, observed that his wife Mary, who was the client of the deceased, had become too close with him, raising suspicions that their relationship had transcended driver/customer relationship. Persistent warning from Ahiatrogah for Mary to cut every communication with the deceased fell on deaf ears. This resulted in a number of arbitration by their pastors and families of both Ahiatrogah and Mary. After the last settlement between the couple, Mary held the view that Ahiatrogah disgraced her by throwing her out so she would be made a laughing stock if she returned to her matrimonial home. She therefore asked her husband get her a new residence so that she visited during the night and leave at dawn so that no one sees her. Ahiatrogah agreed to her demand and therefore rented a wooden structure for her while she stopped the food vending trade to learn sewing.