A 22-year-old
truck pusher, identified as Samuel Akuro, is now in the hospital under the
watchful eyes of the police for allegedly stabbing a female prostitute to death
in the oil-rich city of Warri, Delta State.
The suspect, it
was gathered, also stabbed himself out of fear of the mob, when it dawned on
him that his victim had died.
The incident
started when the truck pusher visited a brothel along Okere road and approached
two ladies, who separately turned him down.
Sources disclosed
that the prostitutes refused Samuel because he did not have money, though he
was well known as a regular customer.
Unperturbed,
Samuel, it was learnt, relocated to another brothel at No 26, two buildings
away from the first one where his advances were again rejected until he saw the
deceased, who had been his regular customer and had also rejected his move.
“It was at this stage that Samuel became
angry and drew a bottle, broke it and stabbed the girl (whose identity was yet
to be ascertained at the time of filing this report). When he realized that the
girl was dying and there was a surging crowd advancing towards the hotel,
Samuel, afraid of being mobbed, stabbed himself with the aim of committing
suicide,” a security source disclosed.
It was learnt that
the stabbed prostitute was later rushed to the Warri Central Hospital where she
gave up the ghost while doctors and nurses were battling to save her.
The suspect was
apprehended by security men from “A” Division Police, Warri, and was taken to
the Warri Central Hospital for treatment.
During a visit to
the Hospital on Friday the suspect was hand-cuffed to a stretcher as a result
of his ‘violent nature’.
It was gathered
that Samuel Akuro, the truck pusher, who lives alone in Warri after the
relocation of his parents to the village, had attempted killing himself in the
past, but was rescued from the river he jumped into.
Looking restless,
Samuel Akuro, who hails from Ewu in Ughelli South Local Government Area, said
he did not know what came over him on the day he stabbed the prostitute to
death.
“I wanted to kill myself that day, but at
the river, I was rescued. I later went to the hotel at Okere road because the
girls have been ‘eating’ my money. I found myself in this hospital
where I was told that I stabbed a girl to death at the hotel.
“I don't know how it happened and if a man of
God should come here now, he will know that something is wrong with me,” he said at the Warri Central hospital
before he was transferred to the Delta State Teaching Hospital, Oghara.
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