Man kills girlfriend in hotel over alleged gonorrhea infection

One Ekanem Ikot, 31, has allegedly killed his 27-year-old girlfriend, Edith Owei, from Owa-
Alero, Ika North East Local Government Area of Delta State in a hotel room for allegedly infecting him with gonorrhea.
Punch Newspaper reports that the suspect fled the hotel after the incident on Monday, leaving
the victim’s lifeless body on the ground, even as sources said the suspect and the victim were in a relationship close to six months before the dastard act.
But an insider said the suspect, who hails from Akwa Ibom, allegedly lured the victim to Minna in Niger State after she had deceived her parents that she was going to Ambrose Alli
University, Ekpoma, Edo State, to collect her
NYSC call-up letter, having graduated from the
Department of Chemistry.
It was further gathered that after the family
members had waited for days to no avail and
without hearing from her, they were said to
have called her mobile telephone number
several times without any answer; a
development that overwhelmed them with
suspicion.
Surprisingly, the victim’s boyfriend, after some
days, sent a text message to the elder sister,
one Felicia, informing her of the death of the
sister in a hotel room in Minna as well as
allegedly claiming responsibility.
Felicia, who narrated the incident to Southern
City News, said, “We immediately reported the
matter to the police who then sent a radio
message to Minna to ascertain if such incident
took place there and it was confirmed to be
true.”
The victim’s sister added that the police and
one of her uncles travelled to Minna, where
they identified her corpse and brought it to
Asaba.
The victim’s body had since been deposited at
the Federal Medical Centre Hospital, Asaba,
even as unconfirmed sources said the suspect
allegedly killed the victim when he noticed
gonorrhea symptoms after he made love to her
before they moved into Minna.