If Favour Aruwa Habibatu, 500level law student, University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State had realised that she was on a journey of no return from Choba, Rivers State, she probably would have cancelled it. She may have had a premonition of what awaited her at her boyfriend’s residence but ignored the warning indications, Saturday Vanguard reports.
Her close friends said they saw her in Choba that Tuesday before she boarded a vehicle to Warri, Delta State, to visit her boyfriend, Michael Ade. Neighbours on Ayidi Street, Edgeba district of oil-rich city of Warri, said they saw her that Tuesday evening shopping for culinary ingredients.
Off camera, some stated they often saw Favour and Michael in his Lexus SUV.
In his jeep they were a familiar sight. There was no question that they were in a committed relationship. “She was always ringing him,” they said.
But something peculiar happened in Michael’s flat on Tuesday night. The girl was screaming loudly for rescue and the compound’s landlord heard her. He phoned the community kids at once and he called the police too.
At the same time, he sped out to stop Michael’s SUV with his own car.
Later Michael emerged from his flat and said the landlord wanted to relocate his car so he could drive out – he had an emergency. But the landlord and the youngsters, who had arrived before the cops, asked that he let them into his flat to explain why his girlfriend was screaming.
He had no option but to obey.
Their horror was to discover his girl-friend in a pool of blood on the floor.
It was determined that Michael allegedly stabbed her several times before she died.
He was caught when the police came and the deceased’s remains were sent to the mortuary.
Neighbours suspected the young man killed her for religious motives.
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