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22-year-old man, Eji Emmanuel, has been arrested by the Lagos State Police
Command for the alleged murder of a 39-year-old trader, Sylvanus Okoye.
According to the police, the suspect stabbed
the deceased to death at his home on Ezemegbu Drive, Okota in August.
The suspect, however, explained that he killed
the deceased in self-defence.
He alleged that on the day of the incident,
Okoye had attempted to rape him.
Explaining the events that culminated in
Okoye’s death, the suspect said he was a dancer and was lured to Lagos by a
friend, Chukwudi, under the guise of doing music business only for the friend
to introduce him to homosexuality.
He said he had gone to report the matter to his
friend’s boss but his friend’s boss raped him twice and he reported the matter
at the FESTAC Police Division.
He said the matter was transferred to the Zone
2 Police Command and the case was turned against him after which he spent two
weeks in detention.
He said he had approached Okoye, who he
considered an Igbo leader in the state, to help him with money to return to
Anambra State when Okoye also attempted to rape him.
He said, “I went along with a relative to
report the matter to Okoye and he gave my friend and I N5,000 and shirts.
He told us not to worry, so we slept over at his house. At midnight,
however, Okoye came to my room and attempted to have sex with me but I refused
him.
“My relative later told me that Okoye had sex
with him in the parlour that same night. We left in the morning and returned to
Anambra State. From there, I went to Abuja where I remained for four months.
However, one day, Okoye called me that he had a business deal and invited me to
come to Lagos.
“I told Okoye that I would not engage in any
act of homosexuality and he agreed.”
The suspect said when he returned to Lagos, the
deceased said he wanted to open a bar in the area and wanted him to manage the
business.
He said he passed the night at the deceased’s
home, but at midnight, the deceased crept into his room and attempted to make
love to him.
He said, “In the evening, Okoye served me with
bread, butter and tea in my room. Around 3.30am, he crept into my room and
wanted to sleep with me, but I refused him.
“Okoye was a big man so he attempted to
overpower me, but I picked up the bread knife that was still left in the room
and stabbed him in the neck, but he did not die.
“I picked up a flexible iron and bound it round
his neck and locked him inside the room.
“When it was 6am, I stepped out of the house
and gave the key to one woman beside the gate and fled.”
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Metro had reported on August 16, 2013, that Okoye was
found murdered in his home two weeks after he was last seen by neighbours.
It was learnt that following the discovery, the
security guard and the woman whom the suspect handed the key to were arrested
by detectives at the State Criminal Investigation Department, Yaba.
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Metro learnt that after three months, detectives were
able to locate the suspect in Anambra State.
A police detective said, “The security guard
told us that he could identify the suspect if he saw him.
“In the course of investigation, we obtained
call logs from Okoye’s phone and we learnt that the suspect had used Okoye’s
phone to call his girlfriend in Anambra State shortly after killing Okoye.
“We travelled to Anambra State and we were able
to locate the suspect who was even wearing the deceased’s clothes.”
The suspect, however, insisted that he was not
a killer but a victim of circumstance.
He said, “My father and my brother are dead. I
am the only child of my mother. Who will take care of her if I am sent to
prison?
“I am not a homosexual but I was used. I tried
for several months to impregnate my girlfriend but was not successful. I feel
they have stolen my virtues.”
Police Public Relations Officer, Ngozi Braide,
confirmed Emmanuel’s arrest to our correspondent on the telephone.
Braide added that the police were still working
to establish it the the victim was a homosexual or not as alleged by the
suspect.
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