Princess Odume: Why I killed my lover – Akwa Ibom corps member’

Princess Odume, a corps member who was accused of stabbing her alleged boyfriend to death in Akwa Ibom, has said she did it in self-defence.

Miss Odume has been remanded in police custody since Sunday after neighbours caught her trying to jump over a fence after killing the young man.

The Akwa Ibom State police spokesman, Odiko Ogbeche-Macdon, who briefed newsmen on the development in Uyo on Tuesday, said the young man killed by Odume has been duly identified as Japhet Akwaowo.

Ogbeche-Macdon said Odume claimed Akwaowo threatened to kill her upon her refusal to oblige his request to remove her clothes so that he could have sex with her.

“She actually killed the young man identified as Akwaowo Japhet. She said she went to buy bean cake, akara, and saw a man that beckoned to her to come over to him. She said she went to meet him, they got talking and she found herself in his house. She said she waited for him outside and he went inside to bring a knife. He said he was going to stab her and no one would know what happened. She also said Japhet asked her to remove her clothes and she refused. What basically happened was that she overpowered him,” the PPRO said.

Odume was arrested by the police after she allegedly hacked Akwaowo to death with a machete.

The young woman, who is said to be a graduate of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu State, was stripped naked and humiliated by neighbours of the deceased who caught her trying to jump over the fence with the cutlass.

According to an eyewitness account, Odume was caught on Sunday at Abak Road after neighbours saw the corpse of Akwaowo lying in a pool of blood with several cuts on his body.

It was gathered that Odume who was living in Enugu with her family, was recently posted to Uyo, Akwa Ibom State for her one-year mandatory National Youth Service Corps programme.