The Delta State Police Command has arrested a 21-year-old woman identified simply as Bina for killing her lover, Ayo Omoseni, in the Warri North Local Government Area of the state.
DECENCY GLOBAL NEWS learnt this from the state Public Relations Officer, SP Edafe Bright, in a video he posted on X on Wednesday.
According to him, Bina, who hails from Bayelsa, had lived with Omoseni at Jakpa Road area of the community for four years, during which she had a three-year-old and a one-year-old child for him.
Narrating the events that led to the tragedy, Bina, who was interviewed by the police spokesperson, admitted to stabbing her lover during a fight.
According to her, trouble started after she flouted his instruction by asking a neighbour to help load their electricity meter because he refused to do so.
She added that her lover, as a result of this, seized the key to her shop and threatened to lock it up.
She said, “He was beating me up. He used his hand, holding the key and the airbrush. As he used it, I used my hand to block it so that it won’t touch my eyes because I’d gone blind once.
“After he smashed my head on the floor, I was bleeding from my nose. That was when I went to the kitchen to take the dagger. I was standing between the kitchen and the dining room.”
He was coming directly at me. So, I told him that he should stay away,” Bina added.
Edafe, however, expressed worry over the circumstances that led to the incident.
“Who do you blame? The girl, the society, or her parents who couldn’t raise her and gave her out at 17 without a bride price? Her English is so fluent, and she stopped schooling at SS2,” he queried.
In the video, Edafe also used the case to warn against uncontrolled anger.
He said, “It’s a very sad story, and the only reason why we are bringing this out is because of what we call temper, not just in her case but even in men’s cases. We should mind our temper because for every fight, we don’t know the endpoint. Now, this man is dead, the two children are there, and the wife is here, going in for a case of suspected murder.”
“I appeal to all Deltans, Nigerians, and everybody watching this video to mind their temper,” he concluded.
