A student of Abia State Polytechnic, named Abel, a final year student of the Department of Architecture, leaving in one of the lodges at Immaculate area of Aba, Abia State, has , allegedly stabbed his landlord in the stomach during a disagreement at the lodge.
According to Punch metro the landlord had ordered that no female visitor was allowed to spend the night in the lodge.
However, Abel the suspect brought home a female guest in the evening and both of them went inside his room. The caretaker of the lodge saw them and waited for them to come out, but they didn’t. He then put a call through to the landlord, who hurriedly went to the building around 9pm.
On arrival, the landlord barged into the student’s room where he met both the lady and the student naked. Instead of excusing himself, he attacked the student with punches. The lady quickly grabbed a wrapper and ran out of the room into another student’s room in the lodge.
“As the confrontation continued, the student stabbed the landlord with a knife, put on his boxers and fled that night, leaving the landlord dead in his room.
The landlord reportedly died on the spot.
His remains were recovered by the police and deposited in a mortuary.
This incident happened around 9pm on June 29. The deceased had made a rule that no student living in the lodge should bring a lady to pass the night there. He also made it a rule that every visitor, be it male or female, must leave before night falls. The caretaker of the lodge was the first to notice the breach of the rule, adding that he informed the landlord. as explained by Beatrice a student of the institution
When contacted, the Abia State Police Public Relations Officer, Nta Ogbonnaya, confirmed the murder, but said he could not tell what transpired between the suspect and the deceased. He said the case file had been transferred to the State Department of Criminal Investigations, adding that the police have launched a manhunt for the suspect with his picture posted at strategic areas in the school.
Meanwhile, the incident threw the community into confusion
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