The police force in Plateau has
arrested Stephen Gyang, a commercial motorcycle rider for allegedly killing his
girlfriend, Alice Samuel, and burying her remains in a makeshift grave. Gyang
reportedly killed his lover for forcing her pregnancy on him. The 20-year-old
Junior Secondary School two (JSS 2) dropout confessed that Alice was moved by
her mother to name him as being responsible for the pregnancy that was why he
killed her, The ugly incident took place in Tahoss village, in the Riyom local
government area of the state. Undie Adie, the state commissioner of police,
said it was a case of “culpable homicide”. He further said that the suspect had
confessed to the crime and would soon be arraigned. Gyang revealed that he
reported the development to his elder brother because he lost his peace after
the act. He remarked: “Yes, Alice Samuel was my girlfriend and we had been
together for some time now. I killed her because of the pregnancy. "After
saying the pregnancy was not for me, she recanted and said it was mine; that
was why I killed her. I decided to bury her that night in a shallow grave that
was to be used either for a pit toilet or well. “After the incident, the spirit
of Alice Samuel did not leave me; she started disturbing me and I had to report
to my brother who took the matter to my father. My father thereafter reported
my predicament to the village chief.” His friend and accomplice, 20-year-old
Kelly James, who was an eyewitness, said that his plea to Gyang not to kill the
victim was to no avail. He alleged that Gyang threatened to kill him if he did
not assist him in the crime. James stated: “I had been seeing him and the girl
together for over three years now. He is my friend and the two of us are
commercial motorcyclists. On that particular day, I had gone to see his
girlfriend, who sold palm wine. "After taking palm wine at her shop, I
went to my friend’s house. When I discovered that he was not at home, I picked
the house key where he usually kept it, opened the door and slept off in his room.
“When he returned home at night, he was not happy that I entered his house
without informing him of my visit. While I was asleep, I heard a knock on the
window and he informed me it was his girlfriend, Alice. “When I asked him what
brought the girl by that time of the night, he said she came to see him. He
opened the back door for her and they started having a discussion behind the
curtains. “He called me outside that the girl had implicated him over a
pregnancy which did not belong to him. He insisted that the girl’s mother asked
her to do so. I told him that since he had accepted the pregnancy and the case
was already in the palace of the village chief, he should allow her to be with
her parents for now. “But he said no, that he was going to deal with the girl
by killing her. I advised him against it, warning that if he killed Alice, we
would not be friends again. But he refused. “I left him outside and went into
the room. I started trembling on the bed as I feared the worst. He was talking
to the girl and I thought he had decided against killing her. “Suddenly, I
heard the sound of two legs on the ground, which suggested that she was
struggling for life. I stood up and saw that he held the girl’s neck to the
wall; he had strangled her and her eyes were already white. As I told him to
leave the girl, he threatened to kill me if I did not assist him to cover up.
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