Policemen attached to the Homicide Unit State Criminal
Investigation Department at Panti Yaba Lagos Police
Command are investigating a 20 – yearold lady,
Onyinyeche Ogbona for allegedly biting her neighbour to
death. It was gathered that Ogbona, and the deceased
identified as Engineer Pius Ezema were neighbours at
Number 15 Ondo Street Okobaba in Ebute Metta area of
Lagos State but trouble started on March 12 th when Pius
allegedly quarrelled with Okoro for singing loudly near his
window in the “face-me-I -face -you apartment where
they lived as next door neighbours.
The quarrel it was learnt snowballed into a fierce fight
which led to biting and eventual death a day after the fight
took place, police sources said. Narrating what transpired
between her and the deceased, Ogbona denied allegations
that she killed her neighbour as she stated that she
defended herself from the deceased’s brutal attack. She
said “I have been living in that house for the past six years
with my sister. I am a sales girl at Balogun Market in
Lagos Island. On March 12th about 6am, I woke up to pray
and I put on my earpiece and turned on my phone music.
I started my morning devotion by praising God. My sister
was not around. She had gone to assist one of our sisters
to take care of her new baby . I was alone in the room
praising God. Sometimes last year ,I used to praise and
pray outside our room but my neighbour Pius ,warned me
not to pray close to his window. I told him I was sorry and
since then, I started praying in my room. I was singing
loudly because I was enjoying the morning devotion. All of
a sudden, Pius barged into my room. He was shouting and
said I refused to take instructions not to disturb him. He
held my clothes and started slapping me . I begged him to
stop beating me but he continued. He was very mad at me
and he locked my door and continued to hit my face . He
brought out a whip and used it to flog me all over my body.
I was screaming and yelling that he should stop hitting me.
Our neighbours heard my shout for help and they came to
my rescue but Pius had locked the door. The other
neighbours appealed to him to open the door but he
refused. When he had beaten me to his satisfaction, he
unlocked the door and left me crying in the room. The
other neighbours came into my room and they asked why
Pius beat me. I told them that I was singing loudly and it
infuriated him. The neighbours called him into my room
and said he should explain why he beat me mercilessly
like that but he said I should come out. As soon as I
stepped out, Pius descended on me again. This time, he
brought out a knife and held my throat.
He wanted to slit my throat. I had to bite him on his
thumb so he can release his grip on my neck. It worked
and he left me crying. I had to call my boyfriend to help
beg him so he wouldn’t beat me again since he refused to
listen to the other neighbours.
My boyfriend came and begged him and he told him to
warn me not to disturb his peace again. That was how we
settled the matter that day “ Asked if the deceased had
asked her out and she turned him down, Ogbona stated
that such romance never occurred between them. “ Pius is
not my boyfriend and he has never asked me out. He has a
fiancée and they are planning to get married in July this
year. After the beating I received from him that morning , I
became too scared to sleep in my room alone. That night ,
I went to my friend’s house to sleep.
I came back on March 14 , two days after he fought me and
I learnt that Pius was dead. I was shocked. I asked our
neighbours who killed him? How did he die? . They told me
that Pius did not come out of his room the previous day
and his brother was worried as he could not reach him on
his mobile phone so he decided to check him in his room.
The brother knocked and knocked but Pius did not answer.
They attempted to break his door but still he did not
respond. When they finally forced his door opened, they
found him laying face up and foaming from his mouth.
My neighbours told me that I killed Pius with my bite. I
was confused. I don’t know what they were talking about.
Some neighbours told me to run away but I refused since I
know that I did not poison him. The police later came from
Denton Police station and arrested me. They said my teeth
is poisonous and caused Pius’ death. I don’t intend to kill
Pius. I am a Catholic and I forgave him all he did to me. I
want police and government to carry out an autopsy on
Pius and they should conduct medical examination on my
teeth. I don’t know why I am in this mess but God will see
me through”.
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