Gift Wahab, 20,
was arrested for stabbing her live-in-lover to death at the Ajegunle area of
Lagos State. Wahab who claimed that she did it out of self-defence said
the trouble between them after she told the deceased that she was hungry, but
he told her to go and ‘drinkgarri.’
The two had soon
started quarrelling, resulting in Ebi repeatedly hitting Wahab. Apparently
filled with impotent anger, the suspect dashed and picked a kitchen. She used
it to stab the deceased on the neck.
Wahab said:
“Since I couldn't over power him, I sought to defend myself. I rushed to pick a
knife to prevent him from coming closer to hit me. But he continued coming
towards me. It was in the process of dragging with him, that the knife
mistakenly got him on the neck. He started bleeding."
The suspect, who started living with Ebi since she was 18, insisted that she never meant to kill him. She said that the two of them were not just live-in-lovers, but had plans to marry. She added that they once had a baby who died few months after her birth.
The suspect, who started living with Ebi since she was 18, insisted that she never meant to kill him. She said that the two of them were not just live-in-lovers, but had plans to marry. She added that they once had a baby who died few months after her birth.
The couple met
in 2013 in a night club and since then became lovers. She said she was confused
when it dawned on her that she had stabbed Ebi. She started screaming until
neighbours came. Ebi was rushed to the hospital, but died on the way.
Policemen from
Layeni Police Station whisked Wahab away for interrogation. She was later
transferred to the State Criminal Investigations Department (SCID), Panti,
Yaba, Lagos State, for further investigation.
A police source said: “The suspect confessed that she wasn't in her real sense when she killed the man.”
A police source said: “The suspect confessed that she wasn't in her real sense when she killed the man.”
Wahab said: “I
dropped out of school in SS2, after I lost my father. We were four kids. My
mother alone couldn’t cope with the four of us. I started going to night clubs
with friends. I met Ebi in 2013 in one of the night clubs I used to frequent.
We started interacting and later fell in love. We started dating.”
Wahab, who
described Ebi, simply as a businessman, added “I got pregnant for him and in
December 2014, I gave birth to a baby girl. But the baby died later same month
and year,” said Wahab. “We were still going out as usual until on March 19,
2015, after we got back from clubbing. I told him he should give me the key to
the house, so that I could go in, especially since I was hungry. But he refused
to hearken to my words, neither did he gave me money to eat. Rather, he said I
should go and drink garri that night and go to bed. I didn't utter a word until
he started raising issues which led to our quarrel and soon he began to punch
me.”
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