Alabi Tolani, the 24-year-old
lady set ablaze by her 19-year-old boyfriend, Orji Ifeanyichukwu, over alleged
infidelity, has died.
After our report about the
incident on Sunday, the Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, Bala
Elkana, released a statement and confirmed that the incident took place at G54,
Army Post Service Housing Estate, Ojo, Lagos, where they both lived in
Ifeanyichukwu’s N600, 000 per annum apartment.
“Ifeanyichukwu met the victim on
Feb. 28, 2019, through a hookup and she moved into his house in March. He has
been into internet fraud for the past three years, where he gets the proceeds
for renting the apartment.
They have since then, inhabited
as lovers because her parents live apart,” the police spokesman said.
He said that Ifeanyichukwu
brought Tolani into his house with conditions that she would quit prostitution
and stick to him alone. “However, trouble started on Thursday when the victim
left home to fix her hair and did not return until the next day.
She equally left the house on
Friday under the guise of visiting her father but ended up seeing another man.
Ifeanyichukwu got to know on Saturday when she returned by scrolling through
her phone and saw her chats, video calls and pictures of herself naked which
she sent to her client,” Mr Elkana said.
He said that the suspect
(Ifeanyichukwu) became angry and used the petrol he kept for his generator to
set her ablaze. A team of detectives visited the scene and the victim has been
taken to General Hospital, Igando where she was admitted but died in the early
hours of Sunday.
The Lagos State Commissioner of
Police, Hakeem Odumosu, has directed the immediate transfer of the case to
Criminal Investigation Department Yaba. The suspect confessed to the commission
of the crime and will be charged to Court for murder,” the statement concluded.
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