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.
According to Punch, the
incident occurred at the couple’s residence on Fasasi Street, Ajegunle, Apapa,
on Thursday, March 19.
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.
Speaking with Punch,
the suspect 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.”
Gift Wahab
Ebi Amade
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