The Plateau State Police Command has arrested a commercial motorcycle rider , Stephen Gyang , for allegedly killing his girlfriend , Alice Samuel , and burying her remains in a shallow grave.
Gyang allegedly killed the victim for wanting to force her pregnancy on him .
The 20 - year -old Junior Secondary School two dropout said he killed his girlfriend because she had initially said he was not responsible for the pregnancy .
He said she recanted on the prompting of her mother , who wanted him to take responsibility for the pregnancy .
The incident happened in Tahoss village , in the Riyom Local Government Area of Plateau State .
The state Commissioner of Police , Undie Adie , said it was a case of “culpable homicide”, adding that the suspect had confessed to the crime and would soon be charged to court .
Gyang , an okada rider , told PUNCH Metro that he reported the matter to his elder brother because he lost his peace after the incident .
He said , “Yes , Alice Samuel was my girlfriend and we had been together for some time now. I killed her because of the pregnancy . After saying the pregnancy was not for me , she recanted and said it was mine ; that was why I killed her. I decided to bury her that night in a shallow grave that was to be used either for a pit toilet or well .
“After the incident , the spirit of Alice Samuel did not leave me ; she started disturbing me and I had to report to my brother who took the matter to my father . My father thereafter reported my predicament to the village chief .”
His friend and accomplice, 20 - year -old Kelly James , who was an eyewitness , told our correspondent that he begged Gyang not to kill the victim , but he refused .
He claimed that the prime suspect threatened to kill him if he ( James ) did not assist him.
James said , “I had been seeing him and the girl together for over three years now . He is my friend and the two of us are commercial motorcyclists . On that particular day , I had gone to see his girlfriend , who sold palm wine . After taking palm wine at her shop , I went to my friend ’s house . When I discovered that he was not at home, I picked the house key where he usually kept it, opened the door and slept off in his room .
“When he returned home at night , he was not happy that I entered his house without informing him of my visit . While I was asleep , I heard a knock on the window and he informed me it was his girlfriend , Alice .
“When I asked him what brought the girl by that time of the night , he said she came to see him . He opened the back door for her and they started having a discussion behind the curtains .
“He called me outside that the girl had implicated him over a pregnancy which did not belong to him . He insisted that the girl’s mother asked her to do so . I told him that since he had accepted the pregnancy and the case was already in the palace of the village chief , he should allow her to be with her parents for now.
“But he said no, that he was going to deal with the girl by killing her . I advised him against it, warning that if he killed Alice , we would not be friends again . But he refused.
“I left him outside and went into the room . I started trembling on the bed as I feared the worst . He was talking to the girl and I thought he had decided against killing her.
“Suddenly , I heard the sound of two legs on the ground, which suggested that she was struggling for life . I stood up and saw that he held the girl ’s neck to the wall ; he had strangled her and her eyes were already white . As I told him to leave the girl , he threatened to kill me if I did not assist him to cover up .”
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