The Police Command in Cross River on Thursday paraded a 30-year-old man who allegedly gave his lover a machete for not exhibiting up at his home final Valentine's Day.
Police alleged that Amber Ubung dedicated the act when his lover, Blessing Onawu, 25, reneged on her promise to spend Valentine's Eve with him after receiving N7,000 from him to care for her hair.
The state Commissioner of Police, Mr Gyogon Grimah, instructed journalists in Calabar that the incident occurred at Okuni in Ikom Native Authorities Space.
“After ready and the mentioned girl didn’t present up, the suspect, Ubung, armed himself with a machete, to Onawu’s home, attacked her and gave her a number of machete cuts throughout her physique with the intention of killing her.
“In an try by the sufferer's mom to avoid wasting her, he used the identical machete to inflict accidents on her.
“A staff of law enforcement officials was mobilized to the scene and the suspect was arrested with the machete.
“The suspect has been transferred to SCID for additional investigation and will probably be charged to courtroom as soon as investigations are accomplished,” he mentioned.
The commissioner additionally mentioned that the sufferer and her mom had been being handled at totally different hospitals.
The Information Company of Nigeria (NAN) experiences that 9 different suspects had been paraded in several components of the state for alleged armed theft, whereas two had been paraded for alleged homicide.
Whereas calling for public help in info sharing to deal with crime, Grimah mentioned the Police Command would proceed to do its greatest to take care of peace and order.
“I wish to guarantee law-abiding residents that the command, beneath my management, will make sure that Cross River maintains its fame as probably the most peaceable state within the nation.
