Operatives of the Edo State Police Command have arrested 26-year-old woman, Gift Obieriei, for stabbing her lover, Eghosa Iguodala, to death in Benin City.
According to Daily Trust, a source said the incident happened on Monday on Imafidon Street, Off Upper Siluko Road, Egor Quarters, Benin City, when the woman stabbed her lover with a broken bottle.
The mother of three, who hails from Ethiope East LGA of Delta State, was said to have stabbed the lover on the neck and back after he pursued her with a machete on sighting her in another man’s house in his area.
It was further learnt that the victim, a 44-year-old commercial bus driver, was married with four children.
In a viral video, a woman who identifies herself as Gift, whose right wrist is handcuffed to the back seat of a car, says: “As he see me with another person, he come fight me for the person house. I don’t live in his house. I went to see someone.”
The state police spokesperson, SP Chidi Nwabuzor, who confirmed the incident said the police found the corpse of the man in the pool of his blood at the scene.
He said the suspect was arrested and transferred to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID).