Monday 8 February 2016

Nursing mother stabs man to death


22- year old nursing mother and student of the Benue State Polytechnic, Nwuese Ayom,has been nabbed by Benue State Police Command for allegedly stabbing 22-year-old Tererse Ayua to death in Gboko town.

The Office Management Technology, National Diploma II student, who attributed her action to provocation, has become a ghost of herself since her arrest in Gboko.

The single mother, who gave an account of the circumstances that led to her unrestrained attack on her neighbour that eventually led to his death, blamed the devil for what happened.

She said the deceased who was her neighbour at Gboko West, had been teasing her because of the baby she had some four months ago.

Recounting her story, Nwuese said, “we were neighbours, I had nothing with him, he used to abuse me since I had my baby; sometimes he went as far as accusing me of abandoning my baby at night to sleep with other men.

“He kept doing it over a period of time though I kept begging him to leave me alone but he refused and a few days ago, he came and started harassing me threatening to beat me up and claiming that I was mocking him because he had issues with somebody in the neighborhood.

“The hot exchange led to a fight, he beat me and my baby fell from my hand, it was at that point that I reached for the knife I was peeling an orange with.

“A struggle ensued and it was in the mist of the struggle that I mistakenly stabbed him in the stomach and he left me and staggered backward and started shouting for help saying that I had killed him.

“At that point passersby and neighbours gathered at the scene, some took me away while some others rushed him to a nearby hospital. I later learned that he died before reaching the hospital for treatment,” she stated.

Speaking on the matter, the Benue State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Paul Yakadi, said the suspect would be charged to court at the end of investigations.

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