A 40-year-old man identified as Stephen Ogho-Oghene Akpata has
been arrested by the Police in Bayelsa for allegedly stabbing his wife to death
over alleged infidelity.
The 33-year-old deceased, identified as
Onyinye Faustina Eze was
reportedly a staff of Globacom Nigeria Limited.
According to an eye witness, Osaro Akindele Okhomina, the
suspect confessed that he murdered his wife after they both had sex at their
residence along the Kpansia area of Yenagoa, the State capital.
The suspect reportedly disclosed that he became angered after he
saw a text message on her phone indicating she was having an extramarital
affair.
He then confronted her and argument ensued, then he stabbed her
on the neck and on the shoulder leading to her death.
He also confessed to having served in various detention centers
in Australia.
The 40-year-old suspected murderer shared photos from their court
wedding on social media on 8th of August.
Police Commissioner in the State said Mr. Akpata murdered his
wife by strangling her with the cable of an electric iron. He then also stabbed
her with a knife.
The police chief said the incident became known when one of
Onyinye’s colleagues, Moses Awo, reported at Ekeki Police Division in Yenagoa
that Onyinye did not report for work as expected.
According to him, Mr. Awo had reportedly told the police that
when he and another colleague went to Onyinye’s residence in Kpansia area of
Yenagoa, they discovered that the apartment was locked. They also found that
the television set in her room was working.
Some police officers from Ekeki Police Division in Yenagoa went
to the deceased’s apartment and forced her door open. They found Onyinye dead
in a pool of her blood.
According to Bayelsa Police Commissioner, Mr. Akpata was the
prime suspect in the murder.
He was arrested by police in Badagry, Lagos State, after about
two weeks on his trail.
Parading the suspect on Thursday at the state command’s
headquarters, Mr. Amba said that his operatives discovered that the deceased
room was scattered.
Mr. Amba said the exhibits recovered at the scene of the crime
were a knicker; a pair of canvas shoes, one damaged electric iron, one jean
jacket, one pen knife, one pink singlet, a Nokia mobile phone and a damaged
wrist watch.
He said the exhibits were stained with blood.
The police chief said the body of the victim was removed and
deposited at the morgue of the Federal Medical Centre, Yenagoa, for autopsy.
Narrating how the suspect was arrested, Mr. Amba said that
discreet investigations revealed that the suspect absconded to Ghana after
allegedly committing the murder in Yenagoa.
The commissioner, who said the suspect returned to Badagry,
Lagos a few days after, added that Mr. Akpata was tracked and arrested in
Badagry on September 1 and brought to Bayelsa the same day.
“When our operatives went into the apartment of the deceased, we
meticulously searched the environment and we saw a three-quarter knicker that
was well hidden, tucked somewhere in the room that one would not suspect that
something was hidden there.
“We discovered there was a blood stain on the knicker. By this
time, we tried to find out who was with the lady because we knew that they had
just contracted a registry marriage.
“We got in touch with Akpata who is the purported husband. He
gave us the impression that he was out of town, implying that he traveled out
of town before the incident.
“So, we were still communicating with him, at least to break the
news to him that his purported wife was dead. He told us he was on his way back
and this took us some days.
“As we were communicating with him, he was just giving us the
impression that he was coming back, not knowing that he was plotting his own
escape.
“We found out that prior to that time of her murder, the suspect
had spent so much money on the lady and they were moving from one hotel to
another.
“Still, we were playing along with him to enable him to come to
us. But since he said he was in Lagos, we suspected that Ghana or Republic of
Benin would be a likely point of escape.
“We got in touch with the embassies there and the Ghanaian
Embassy was on the alert. From our radar, we found out that he slept in Ghana.
“He escaped back to Badagry in Lagos. He did not know we were
still following him up. We got in touch with the police in Badagry. Eventually
he was arrested at the Badagry border. So, we brought him back,” Mr. Amba said.
Mr. Amba added that the police command got vital information on
him, particularly on his Facebook page where they saw many pictures of him with
his murdered wife during their court marriage.
He assured that the suspect would be charged to court while the
case would be diligently prosecuted as soon as investigations were concluded.
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