Wife, lover arrested over husband’s death

JOS—A 25-year-old woman, Yakbyen Nanbol,
who allegedly conspired with her lover of the
same age to murder her husband, has been
nabbed by policemen in Jos.
The woman, a mother of one child, which she
had for the deceased husband, yesterday, said
she did not ask her lover, who was her late
husband's friend, to kill him.
She said her lover (Samson) had approached
her several times for love-making, which she
always turned down.
She said: "I knew Samson through my husband.
He has been coming to our house whenever
my husband traveled. My husband did not stay
home regularly.
"Samson will come to the house, requesting for
lovemaking. I finally gave in and we have been
meeting until he killed my husband."
However, the suspect claimed that he had been
in love with the woman since July and had
been having the affair since, whenever the
husband, a labourer, was away.
'Why I killed him'
Samson, a native of Langtang South, noted that
because of his "impressive performance," the
woman advised him to kill the husband once
he came back from Port-Harcourt, where he
went for a job, so that they would be free to
get married.
He said: "I stay in Langtang South, but she is in
Langtang North and I have been coming to
meet her. One day she suggested we should be
married. I rejected the idea instantly but later
had a second thought and agreed to marry her.
"I promised to give her money to return the
dowry but she said no, that I should kill the
husband and I agreed.
"The day her husband came back, she called
me, told me her husband had come. I went
there in the night and killed him with a gun."
Parading the suspects at the State Police
Headquarters alongside 14 others, Plateau
State Commissioner of Police, Chris Olakpe,
lamented incidences of homicide, saying the
command was battle-ready to combat any form
of criminal activities in the state.
Another kills mother
Similarly paraded was a young man from
Kaduna Vom in Jos South Local Government
Area, who killed his mother on allegation of
witchcraft and other suspects whose offences
ranged from child trafficking, armed robbery
to cow rustling.
Olakpe said the suspects were undergoing
interrogation by the CID and that they will be
charged to court for prosecution as soon as
the investigation was over.
He said the command had reduced crime rate
in the state to the barest minimum through
intelligence gathering and admonished the
public to make good use of the emergency
lines to give information to ensure improved
policing in the state.