Emmanuel Ezegwu, a student of Institute Of Management and Technology
IMT, Enugu, has been arrested by the Enugu state police command for
allegedly stabbing a commercial sex worker to death on Sunday, following
a disagreement with her.
In a statement released
by the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) SP Ebere Amaraizu,, the
incident happened at 3:30 a.m. at Onuato Street, Enugu. The victim,
followed Amaraizu to his apartment , they got into an argument which
led to her death. .
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He said that the suspect, promised to pay
the victim N4,000 after passing the night with him and demanded they
have sex immediately they got to his place as he had drank to his fill.
“His
request did not influence anything as the deceased allegedly requested
to finish what she was inhaling in order to be in the mood for the
business of the day. The accused maintained that after several hours of
pressuring her and without any answer, he slept off and woke up before 3
a.m.,” Amarizu stated.
The police spokesman said that the
accused immediately ordered the sex worker to leave the apartment since
the aim of bringing her appeared to have been defeated. “The accused
said that the deceased resisted the order, insisted on being paid, and
allegedly warned him to beware as she would not succumb to any person’s
threat whatsoever.
She later headed for a kitchen knife after
allegedly biting him. The accused further revealed that a fight suddenly
broke out between them and as the deceased tried to stab him to death
with the kitchen knife, he overpowered her,” he said. .
Amarizu
quoted the suspect as saying that the kitchen knife went straight to the
stomach of the deceased and he finally stabbed her on the neck region
and she died. The police spokesman said that the accused later wrapped
her body and hurriedly arranged to travel to Lagos where he was
eventually arrested.
