A female corps member, Pascaline Odume, from University of Nsukka currently serving in Akwa Ibom state, has allegedly hacked her boyfriend to death with a machete.
It was learnt that the corps member, who hails from Enugu state was caught on Sunday morning around 9.30am at Abak road by Afaha-offot, trying to jump the fence of the compound of a young guy she had gone to spent the night with.
According to an eyewitness account identified as Godwin George, “she matchet a young guy to death this morning who she went out with. She killed the young guy instantly after several cuts on his stomach and face, on trying to jump out from the fence, she was caught.
“Some bike men there said she is used to sending them to buy weed for her ever since she was deployed to Akwa Ibom for her NYSC.”
The suspect is said to have since been arrested and taken to the police station for further interrogations.
When contacted, State Public Relations Officer, SP Odiko Macdon, confirmed the incident.
“At about 11.00 p.m on Sunday morning, the police got a distress call and we responded swiftly at number 219, Abak road, in Uyo.
“One, Chidinma Odume, a youth Corps member serving at the political desk at Edet Akpan Avenue, was said to be at the verge of being mobbed by the angry mob but the police rescued her,” Macdon said.
Macdon explained that the police had received the corpse and deposited at a moutuary.
