The accused, Gift Wahab
Tragedy
struck in the Ajegunle, Apapa area of Lagos State, after a 20-year-old woman,
Gift Wahab, stabbed her lover, Ebi Amade, 28, to death.
The incident occurred
at the couple’s residence on Fasasi Street, Ajegunle, Apapa, on Thursday, March
19.
It was gathered
that the suspect, Wahab, who hailed from Uromi, Edo State, had been living with
Ebi since 2013, after she dropped out of secondary school. Ebi hailed from
Bayelsa State.
The two
reportedly had a kid in 2014, who died in December after a brief sickness.
It was learnt
that the couple had gone on an outing on Thursday when an argument ensued in
the afternoon over feeding money.
Wahab, a hairdresser,
was said to have stabbed the 28-year-old to death after they got home.
Policemen
from the Layeni division were alerted by neighbours and she was subsequently
arrested.
The deceased, Ebi Amade
The suspect
while narrating what happened, said she did not intend to kill her lover,
adding that she acted in anger.
She said, “We
have been together since 2013. My father died and I dropped out of school when
I was in SSS 3, and that was when we started dating.
“On Thursday,
we went out for an event. As we were returning home, I said he should hand me
the key to the house and my feeding allowance, but he said no. He explained
that he had no money for our feeding.
“Then he
started to abuse me. I told him I was going home, and that he should not bother
about the money again. That was how he punched me in the face and attacked me
while we were still on the road.
“I left him
and went to look for a hammer, which I used to break the door. That night, when
he came in, I was still angry. I got a knife which I used to stab him. I didn’t
intend to kill him. I was just annoyed over what happened in the afternoon.”
It was
gathered that neither the victim’s relatives nor the suspect’s had learnt about
the incident.
However, the
corpse of the victim had been deposited in a mortuary in the area.
A police
source revealed that Ebi was stabbed to death on the right side of the neck.
He added that
the police had also recovered the knife used to commit the crime.
He said, “The
couple met each other at a night club in 2013 and had been dating since then.
They were not legally married. They went out on Thursday and probably got drunk
in the process. When they returned, there was an argument and a fight began
“The suspect
ran to the kitchen and grabbed a knife. She stabbed her lover in the right side
of the neck, and he was rushed to a hospital, where he died.”
The Lagos
State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Kenneth Nwosu, confirmed the
incident, adding that the matter had been transferred to the State Department
of Criminal Investigations for further investigation.
He said, “The
case has been transferred to the SDCI for further investigation, while the
suspect is in our custody.”
Culled: Punch
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