The 31-year-old man who strangled his lover, the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Edmark international to death at the Amuwo Odofin, Festac, area of Lagos State, yesterday said he killed her because he thought she was cheating on him.
The suspect, Kelechukwu Williams, said that the late Njideka Lizzy Nzewi,(39), a mother of four, made him to jilt his former lover because she wanted him to be faithful to her, thus he expected her to do the same.
The police believed that the murder of Lizzy was not an accident as Williams is claiming. The police said that he made a passport, bearing her name. This singular act, proved that he had intention of killing her.
According to him, on the fateful night he murdered her, which was on a Friday, she left home in the morning, only to return at about mid night, reeking of alcohol.
While he was asking her where she went, her phone rang. He picked a call and heard the voice of a man asking: “Baby, are you home?”
That apparently infuriated Williams, who lost control. The lovers started fighting.
He said: “She held my penis. She had a short tight and a tank top. A wrapper was around her neck. She wanted to go and bath. I used the wrapped around her neck to strangle her. When I left her apartment and locked the doors, I knew she was dead.”
Ironically, Lizzy was killed rooms away from her four kids, maid and security guard. “The children and house girl were in another room in the house. They didn’t know what was happening. When I killed her, I was confused. I didn’t take any money from the house. I only took her two phones. I had her ATM card. I went to the gate and told the security that his madam and I would be going to the club that I wanted to go and cash money.”
The security guard, John Tungwin, who was the only person that knows the woman’s ATM Personal Identification Number (PIN), fell for Williams. He followed the suspect to the ATM and provided the PIN. They cashed about N140, 000. When they got to the gate of the house, Williams said he wanted to go and pick his friend first and then he would come and pick Lizzy.
He left with the woman’s Range Rover and never came back until he was arrested at Abidjan border, as he was fleeing Ghana, where he resides and ran to after he killed his lover.
Police had earlier alleged that the suspect made away with the deceased’s Range Rover Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV), phones, 50,000 dollars and N8 million meant for the running of her business. Williams denied the allegations, insisting there was no money in the house.
Addressing journalists, the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Umar Manko said: “On July, 19, the suspect appeared from Ghana to visit the deceased whom he called his lover. They met in Ghana. He had visited twice. The third visit ended in tragedy. He came in on July 18, but on 19, he woke up and told the security guard that he was sent by the lady to go and cash money from ATM for her. He drove off and disappeared.”
Manko said that the following morning, Tungwin became after his madam did not come out and the room was locked. Using a borrowed ladder, he climbed, peeped into the window and discovered that the woman on the ground of the room.
“He disappeared to Ghana. The Area E Commander, Mr. Dan Okoro got in touch with Interpol and police in Ghana. The Jeep was tracked and he was arrested on his way out of Ghana. He was caught at the border, with his load already packed into the woman’s car.”
Williams said he had known Lizzy for years, but they became lovers in February. When he came to Nigeria to see her, they had gone out on Thursday. On Friday, she left him at home in the morning to rest. She said she was going to check on her house at Satellite town.
When it was 6pm, Williams said he became worried and called her number for over 30 times. The phone rang but she did not pick. By the time she got back at about 12 midnight, Williams was fuming.
He said: “When she returned, I asked where she went. I told her I had been calling her phone. She said it was on silent. I noticed she was drunk. I asked her why she left me at home and went out. Someone called, but she didn’t want to pick. I picked it and heard a guy’s voice. I reminded her how she broke my phone in Ghana when she came to visit and picked my call to hear a woman calling my line.
“We started quarreling. She threw my things out. I told her to give me the N300, 000 I gave her to buy generator. She didn’t have money, that she was expecting some money from Edmark. I told her to give me her ATM, to go and check. We fought over taking control of her phone. She slapped me and I slapped her back.”
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