Mr. Ikechukwu is being held at the State criminal Investigation department at Panti Yaba for allegedly slashing the throat of a middle aged Spanish man Gafaru Anthony who was in the country on the invitation of Mr. Ikechukwu his
Mr. Ikechukwu and Mr. Gafaru have been lovers for more than two years before the ugly incident occurred on April 16th.
The seemingly joyous relationship however suffered a setback when on April 16th the lovers had a fight at the Goti Gate hotel at Festac town where they had planned to lodge for one week.
A quarrel ensued between the lovers after they retired to their room from an exciting day together; people who had saw them together earlier that day would not believe that one will kill the other
. Mr. Ikechukwu allegedly overpowered Mr. Anthony during the fight and slashed his throat with a broken bottle.
Officers from the Homicide department at panti Yaba were invited to the scene of the incident where they arrested Mr. Ikechukwu and took the body of Mr. Anthony to the mortuary for autopsy.
Mr. Ikechukwu however said he will kill Mr. Anthony again if he resurrects.
He said Mr. Anthony had exposed him to HIV virus after he drugged and raped him.
“I met Gafaru in Ghana and we have been friends for more than two years. He came to Nigeria on the day of the presidential election,. He said he wanted to come and carry out a research but it was a lie. We went out and visited places. He told me that his lover in Spain had contracted HIV and he is scared.
I told him to go and do the HIV screening to be sure and he said he will do it when he gets back to Spain. But on that night while I was sleeping on the same bed with him, I did not know that he had drugged me and after drugging me, he forced himself on me and slept with me. When I woke up in the morning and discovered what he had done to me, I became angry and confronted him, but he was taking the issue with levity.
That was how we started quarrelling, he was the one who took a bottle and broke it on the wall, he wanted to stab me wit it but I dodged him and broke my own bottle and stab him in the neck, so that was how he bled to death. I did not intend to kill him; I did it in self defense and I don’t regret my action, because he would have killed me if he had the chance.”Mr. Ikechukwu said
Police spokes person Samuel Jinadu advised residents to seek peaceful dispute resolution methods instead of resolving to violence and killing.
“The case is being investigated by detectives from the Homicide department at panti yaba; the suspect will be charged to court as soon as we are through with our investigation” Mr. Jinadu said
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