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28-year-old man, Raphael Effiong, has been arrested by the Lagos State Police
Command for allegedly killing his lover, a 26-year-old fashion designer, Gift
Sunday for refusing to marry him. Effiong allegedly stabbed Gift on the arm and
the breast on the evening of Monday, July 28 after the duo had checked into a
hotel on Yusuf Eleran Street, Ketu, Lagos.
A
relative of the deceased, who identified himself simply as Dickson, said
Effiong had attacked the deceased barely a month before he eventually killed
her.
“The incident happened on Monday
evening. It was shocking to all of us. Gift prepared some food, and took it to
the hotel on his invitation. They got a room, and checked in. What then
happened was that Raphael, who had hidden a pair of scissors in his pocket,
swooped on Gift and attacked her.
“She began to scream, but there was
no quick response. He injured her brutally with the scissors. It was after a
while when some guests in the hotel heard her screams that they came around and
asked Effiong to open the door, but he refused.
“They forced the door open, found
Sunday in a pool of blood and alerted the policemen from the Alapere division.
This was not the first time he would attack her. About a month ago, while he
had come on a visit and the two were alone at home, he had attacked her because
she was not ready to marry him,” Mr Dickson said.
A
police source at the command’s Criminal Investigation Department quarters,
Yaba, Lagos, where Effiong is presently being quizzed, said the suspect
revealed that he killed the deceased because she refused to marry him.
Late
Gift Sunday and Effiong met sometime last year, and the duo had been having an
affair since then. Effiong, an indigene of Uyo, Akwa-Ibom State, was working as
a driver in a telecommunications company in Lagos.
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