One 19 years old, described as a Yahoo boy (internet fraudster), Orji Ifeanyichukwu Victor, on Saturday set his girlfriend ablaze over alleged promiscuity.
The deceased girlfriend is one 24 years old Alabi Tolani Mariam.
Ifeanyichukwu Victor is already in police net.
The spokesman of the Lagos State Police Command, DSP Bala Elkana, made this known on Sunday in a statement made available to FrontPage.
The statement reads: “The suspect confessed that he used petrol to set the victim ablaze. The suspect who is 19 met the victim, a 24 year old on 28/2/2019 through a hookup and she moved into his house in March. They have since then inhabited as lovers. Her parents live apart.
“The suspect finished his secondary school in 2016 at Gbagada Senior Grammar School and seeking for admission into tertiary institution. That he has been into internet fraud popularly known as Yahoo for the past three years. That the N600,000.00 he used in renting the apartment they live in, is a proceed of internet fraud. That he brought the victim into his house with conditions that she will quit prostitution and stick to him alone.
“Trouble started on Thursday when she left home to fix her hair and did not return until the next day. That she equally left the house on Friday under the guise of visiting her father but ended up seeing another man. That he got to know on Saturday when she returned through her phone that he scrolled. He saw her chats, video calls and pictures of herself naked that she sent to the client she spent the night with.
“That he became angry and used the petrol he kept for his generator to set her ablaze.
“A team of detectives visited the scene. The victim was taken to General Hospital, Igando, were she was admitted but died in the early hours of Sunday 8/12/2019.
“The Commissioner of Police Lagos State, CP Hakeem Odumosu has directed the immediate transfer of the case to Criminal Investigation Department, Yaba. The suspect will be charged to court for murder.”
