A student of Delta State University of Science and Technology, now Southern Delta University, Ozoro, Delta state has explained why he attempted to kill his female friend inside the school auditorium.
Prince had stabbed his female friend , Peace, two times in her neck and in the chest; thinking that she had died and started demanding for ransom from the lady’s father.
Prince,who is presently undergoing interrogation at the State Criminal Investigation Department ( SCID), Asaba, confessed that he thought the lady would have died.
The suspect,who was singing like Canary,said :” I invited Peace, my female friend, though not a lover. We were just friends. I had the intention of killing her , not for any other purpose,but to kill her and collect ransom from her parents.
” When she promised to honour my invitation in the school auditorium that fatefulnight, I armed myself with a kitchen knive in preparation to kill her. When she came, I raised a topic about house the school authority had announced that they will be relocating some
departments to another Town, Ole,and she was interested in the discussion , so, I used that opportunity to attack her .
” I stabbed her in the neck and chest, so, thinking that she had ,I used her phone to contact her father that she had been kidnapped and that we needed N2 million ransom.
” I told her father to send the sum of N200, 000 as part payment of the ransom. It was while we were still negotiating the random that the school authority sent for me, arrested me and handed me over to the police.
” I am still surprised that Peace survived the attack. I stabbed her many times for her to die but she survived the attack.
” I have told you the truth. I didn’t have any other motive than to kill her and use her phone to contact her family members for ransom. My motive was not to use her for rituals. It was to collect ransom from her parents “.
Delta state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO)SP Bright Edafe,said,” It is sad that some of our boys due to a lack of home training are cutting short the lives of innocent girls. She is a 100-level student of the newly named Southern Delta University. The suspect who was armed with a kitchen knife asked her to meet him at the school auditorium, where he stabbed her twice in her neck and chest. He later used the girl’s phone to call her father and demanded for ransom.
He said the suspect is still in the police custody and would be charged to Court for murder.
He warned students, especially the female ones, to be weary of who they have appointments with, especially in lonely or secluded areas .
Meanwhile,a student who spoke on the condition of anonymity has told Cornerpiece news that the suspect and the victim knew why they were in the lonely auditorium at that unholy hours.
” As at that material time, students have all gone home and nobody would be there are about 8 pm, so, why would a lady visit a man in that lonely place at that unholy hours? There is something they have not told us .”
A source told our correspondent that the suspect has been expelled by the school authority “
