Lover masterminds boyfriend’s murder

A suspected evil lover is now in police custody in Rivers State
for alleged plot to kill her lover.
The suspect, Loretta Odikagbo, aged 20, allegedly conspired
with her in-law, Ime Francis Moses to allegedly murder her
boyfriend, Charles Oresanya, who hails from Akoko, Ondo
State.
Crime Watch Today learnt that while Loretta and Moses are
chatting with detectives at the State Criminal Investigation
Department (SCID), the third suspect is on the run.
The incident which happened at 5 Njoku Close, Wogi Port-
Harcourt, was said to have thrown the neighbourhood into
confusion.
The Commissioner of Police, Mr. Dan Bature, told Crime Watch
Today that Loretta killed his boyfriend for failing to meet her
monetary demands.
He said he allowed Moses to deal with her lover by attacking
and robbing him.
He explained that the incident happened on September 19,
2014 when Loretta conspired with Moses and one other
person who is now at large to kill Oresanya when they
followed her to his residence.
He said after Loretta had sex with Oresanya and as he was
relaxing thereafter, she allegedly opened the door as Moses
and the other man entered the house, and pretended to be
armed robbers.
“ When they came they tied Oresanya’s legs and hands with
rope and taped his mouth. He was thereafter strangulated to
death. They later requested for his Automated Teller Machine
(ATM) and Loretta had already knew the pin number. So, they
took the ATM card away. They used the card to withdraw
N120,000 and shared the money,” he said.
He said that the trio went back to Oresanya’s house and
packed the deceased’s property and Loretta took his lover’s
phone and removed the SIM card.
The Assistant Commissioner of Police, SCID, Mr. Tunji Disu,
said that it was through information that his team arrested
Loretta and Moses.
ACP Disu explained that it was the neighbours that discovered
that Oresanya was dead after three days. He contacted his
place of work, Halliburton Company at Trans Amadi area of
Port- Harcourt and from there, they reported the matter to the
Wogi Police Station before the case was transferred to the
SCID.
He said the two suspects are still in SCID custody, noting that
they have confessed while the stolen properties have been
recovered from them.
Loretta told Crime Watch Today that, “ I am a girlfriend to the
deceased , Bankole Oresanya. We met through Facebook and
we started our love since January 2014. I have my Ordinary
National Diploma (OND) from the Rivers State Polytechnic at
Bori. My late boyfriend, deceived me that he is single and later
I discovered that he is married.
“ He promised to send me back to school and I continued
dating him based on the promise. Later, I discovered that he
was deceiving me and he could not fulfil the promise. I was
annoyed and I never gained anything from him, he was just
having sex with me.
“ I have to arrange with my in-law, Ime Francis Moses with
one of his gang members on that fateful day. Moses and his
friend followed me to his house and I gave them N800 to buy
cello tape and rope which we used to carry out the devilish
act.
“When we had sex on that day. I went downstairs to open the
kitchen and asked my two accomplices to come in and they
pretended to be armed robbers. They entered and beat me and
they first demanded for his ATM card and I quickly made him
to give them the ATM card. He did and also gave them the
Pin number,” she confessed.
“The ugly incident happened around 8pm and ended around
10pm. I followed the other gang members to the ATM and we
withdraw N120,000. I gave them N50,000. When I got to my
boyfriend, he was tied and they cellotaped his mouth and used
nylon bag to cover his head before they strangulated him.
“We have to steal his property. I took his telephone and the
laptop and I ran away.”
On his part, Moses said, he is an in-law to Loretta. She called
me on phone that I should come and help her embarrass her
boyfriend. On the day of the incident, Loretta took us to the
boyfriend’s house and she went inside and told us to pretend
to be armed robbers. Later, she came and opened the kitchen
door and we came and saw them having sex and I pointed a
torch at them and demanded for ATM card, which Loretta
forced him to give me and he gave me the Pin number.
“ It was Loretta who went and brought the rope and tied his
two legs, cello tape his mouth and covered his head with
nylon bag, we strangulated him and he died.
“She went to the ATM card and withdraw N120,000. She gave
us N50,000. I called her whether she had withdrawn the
money which she said she had done. Loretta came to meet us
at her boyfriend’s house and discovered that he was dead.
“ We have to steal his property and took his shirts while
Loretta stole his LG phone and his laptop. It was when police
arrested Loretta that I was also caught,” he said.
He also confessed that Loretta had used him to deal with
another boyfriend in the past.
“ In 2012, Loretta called me that she was having a
misunderstanding with his boyfriend and she gave me the
boyfriend’s spare key and we both carried away his property
while he was away from home. I was arrested by policemen
from Elekahia before I was released on bail,” he confessed.
CP Bature said that the two suspects will soon be charged to
court for alleged murder.
Woman detained for alleged murder of spouse
From FEMI FOLARANMI, Yenagaoa
A 28-year-old woman, Mrs Victoria Gagariga has been
detained by Bayelsa State police command for allegedly
stabbing her husband to death. The deceased, 33 years old
Henry Gagariga, a lawyer, was stabbed to death yesterday by
his wife at their residence, Ebisam Road after a minor
disagreement.
Neighbours said, Mr. Gagariga was stabbed on the neck with
a kitchen knife and in the process lost a lot of blood before he
died.
Victoria from Brass Local Government Area of the state is an
employee of the state Council of Arts and Culture.
Checks indicated that the couple legalized their union last
June after co-habiting for several years. They were yet to
have children.
The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Mr Ansim Butswat,
confirmed the incident, and said the suspect is in their custody
while investigating is on-going.
“Yes, the incident happened. A woman stabbed her husband to
death. She has been arrested and now in our custody,” he
said.