A 24 year old Miss Blessing Edet, residing at Lekki area of Lagos State has been arrested for stabbing her fiancé to death with a kitchen knife.
In her confessional statement, she said her fiancé, Edet Ebong, got angry and pounced on her after she refused him sex.
According to her “We lay down to sleep and he started making advances on me for sex. I told him I had a hectic day and was tired. He flared up and started beating me. He broke the standing mirror in the room and injured me above my left eye with the broken glass. In defence, I ran to pick up the kitchen knife I had used while preparing Indomie noodles for him. I mistakenly stabbed him in the stomach.”
Rather than look for ways to stem the blood flowing out from his stomach, Ebong allegedly continued to chase her around the apartment until he became too weak.
Blessing recounted: “After stabbing him, the fight continued. He went under the bed, brought out a cutlass and said he was going to kill me. It was at this point that my younger brother who had been trying to stop us, but to no avail, rushed out to call neighbours. My landlord heard the shout and rushed into our room. He saw Edet bleeding while I was holding a knife. He alerted the police and Edet was rushed to the hospital. Unfortunately he died two days after.”
The love birds had been engaged for the past 18 months and were at the verge of finalizing their marriage plans when the tragedy occurred.
The late Ebong, a staff of Akwa Ibom State Transport Company, had come to visit his lover around 11pm on the sad day.
Blessing, who described herself as an orphan, further narrated: “Edet was my fiancé. We’ve been in a relationship for about 18 months now. However, six months ago, he had trouble with his accommodation; so I told him to move in with me since we were already engaged. We’ve never had a misunderstanding before. But on that fateful day, I had just returned from the day’s business and was resting when he came in. Edet came in drunk. He requested I prepare him Indomie noodles for him, which I did. After eating, he asked me of the engagement ring he had given to me. I told him it was on the table. This was before he started beating me. Sincerely, my stabbing him was not intentional, even while he was in the hospital, I prayed he would survive. I don’t know what came over him that day. We had good plans for the future. He was not just a lover but also a brother.”
Blessing said she started living alone four years ago after her aunt told her that her presence in her home was making her husband uncomfortable.
The woman assisted Blessing and her kid brother to secure a room apartment.
It was this home that Ebong later came to join her.