A 28-yr old man identified as Ahamehule Chukwu has been
arrested by the Rivers State Police Command for the alleged murder of
his 21-yr old girlfriend.
The body of the victim identified as Ifeayinwa Ani was discovered in
front of the Eliozu Health Centre and reported to the Okporo Divisional
Police Station by the Chief Medical Officer of the health centre, Dr.
Ama Flag-Amachree, who also revealed to the policemen that she noticed
three incisions, possibly made by injection syringes, on the buttocks of
the deceased.
The Chief Medical Officer in her reports told the police officers
that Ifeayinwa's body was dumped in front of the health centre by
unidentified persons.
The deceased before her death was said to have loved her boyfriend,
who is also believed to have murdered her, so much that she moved into
his apartment and started living with him even though they were not
married.
Investigations carried out by the police revealed that Ahamehule who
attended Government Technical College, Port Harcourt and deceased
girlfriend were supposedly in a very happy relationship until he noticed
she started receiving phone calls from members of the opposite sex
which he termed suspicious.
Ahamehule tearfully revealed to the police during questioning that he
got so aggravated by the frequent calls from unknown persons, that in
anger, he sent Ifeayinwa packing from his family house where she had
been living with him since 2012.
The father of the deceased, Godwin Ani, also confirmed to police that
his daughter and Ahamehule had been living together before her death
even though he never approved of it, his pleas for her to return home
had all been disregarded and Ifeayinwa had told him that Ahamehule owed
her the sum of N51,000, and vowed not to return to her father until
Ahamehule paid his alleged debt.
Officers of the Okporo Divisional Police had gone to Ahamehule's
house to arrest him following Dr. Flag-Amachree's report and Mr. Ani's
statement, to arrest him, only to find that he had absconded from home.
He later showed up at the police station accompanied by his lawyer.
According to the statement tendered by Ahamehule, he last saw the
deceased in November last year, adding that he had given her N20,000
which she needed to carry out an abortion.
The Rivers State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Tunde Ogunsakin,
confirmed that the case has been referred to the State Criminal
Investigation Department of the Police Command for further
investigation, and that Ahamehule will be charged to court if found
guilty.