A University of Port Harcourt student, Victor Ochonogor, yesterday explained how his girlfriend died in his apartment in Benin, Edo State on August 21.
Ochonogor, 25, admitted stabbing her to death, but said he did it out of anger when she called him a kidnapper.
The Applied and Industrial Chemistry undergraduate was paraded by the Police in Edo following his arrest.
Commissioner of Police in Edo, Mr. Muhammed Dankwara told journalists in Benin that the suspect’s landlord reported the case.
The landlord, he said, told the police that the student stabbed the lady several times in the neck and in the chest with a knife.
“Police operatives immediately swung into action, arrested the suspect, recovered two knives, and rushed the victim to the hospital where her body was deposited in a morgue.
“Items recovered from the suspect were two blood-stained knives, two iPhones, one Nokia phone, one laptop, and two ATM cards.
“The case was transferred to the homicide section of the State Criminal Investigation Department, Benin. The suspect will be arraigned for murder soon,’’ Dankwara said.
Speaking with newsmen, the suspect said the deceased travelled from Asaba to spend some time with him in Benin when he found some fetish substances in her possession.
He claimed she also called him a kidnapper.