More facts have emerged on why a 19-year old jealous lover, Orji Ifeanyichukwu Victor, set his 24-year old lover, Mariam Tolani Alabi, on fire over nude photograph she had sent to her secret lover in Ojo area of Lagos.
P.M.EXPRESS reports that Victor confessed that he poured petrol on her lover and then set her ablaze after he saw her nude picture in her phone, which she sent to another lover.
She was rushed to the hospital where she eventually died.
During interrogation, the suspect told the Police that he brought the victim, Tolani, to live with him and discouraged her from further engaging in prostitution and probably to get married to her but she cheated on him and in anger he set her ablaze.
However, his action has landed him in trouble; he was arrested and detained for the alleged offence, which attracts several years of imprisonment or death penalty if he is tried and found guilty before the Court.
This was confirmed by the Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Bala Elkana. He said that on 7th December, 2019, at about 1145hrs, operatives of Iba Police Station arrested one Orji Ifeanyichukwu Victor ‘ m’ 19, of G54 Army Post Service Housing Estate, Ojo, Lagos for setting one Alabi Tolani Mariam ‘f’ 24, ablaze.
The suspect confessed that he used petrol to set the victim ablaze.
DSP Elkana revealed that the suspect met the victim, who is older than him on 28th February, 2019, through a hookup and she moved into his house in March. They have since then inhabited as lovers as their parents live apart.
“The suspect finished his Secondary School in 2016 at Gbagada Senior Grammar School and was seeking for admission into tertiary institution. That he has been into internet fraud for the past three years. That the N600,000.00 he used in renting the apartment they live in, was a proceed of internet fraud. That he brought the victim into his house with conditions that she will quit prostitution and stick to him alone.”
DSP Elkana stated that trouble started on Thursday when she left home to fix her hair and did not return until the next day. That she equally left the house on Friday under the guise of visiting her father but ended up seeing another man. That he got to know on Saturday when she returned through her phone that he scrolled. He saw her chats, video calls and pictures of herself naked that she sent to the client she spent the night with. That he became angry and used the petrol he kept for his generator to set her ablaze. A team of detectives visited the scene. The victim was taken to General Hospital, Igando, were she was admitted but died in the early hours of Sunday 8th December, 2019.
The Commissioner of Police Lagos State, CP Hakeem Odumosu, has directed the immediate transfer of the case to the Homicide Section of the SCIID, Yaba, Lagos.
Source: PM Express
