Homicide detectives of the Lagos State Police Command are presently
trying to find out why a 26-year-old man, Chizoba Ayogu, attempted to use a
rope to strangle a teenager.
The teenager, Faith Nol, 18, claimed that Ayogu, while behind her, tried
to place a rope around her neck in an attempt to kill her.
She said: “If not for the intervention of the hotel workers here, I
would have been dead by now. He closed my mouth and nostril.”
The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr Edgal Imohimi, said: “On May
24, a distress call was received from
Wellwood Hotel Ajangbadi. The duty officer that night at Ilemba Hausa Police
Station quickly went to the hotel where he met Faith Nol, a commercial sex
worker. He found her with severe injuries on her neck.
“The victim stated that
on same date at about 3pm, Chizoba Ayogu of No. 7, Abdullahi Street, Kirikiri,
Apapa Lagos, came to her hotel room. After sleeping with her, he brought out a
rope, tied it around her neck and pulled her down. He also tried to suffocate
her by blocking her mouth and nostrils with a pillow. She was however, rescued
by a staff of the hotel who heard a noise in her room as she struggled for
life. The suspect was arrested and the rope with which he nearly killed the
girl recovered from him. This suspect is yet to tell the police his motive for
wanting to murder the victim.”
Narrating what transpired
between her and Ayogu, Nol said: “I’m not a prostitute! I’m a trader; I sell
fairly used clothes. I used to come
to Lagos to buy wears and sell at Ogbete Main Market, Enugu State. The
incident happened where I lodged for the night, after I had bought all I wanted
from the market for the day. I was supposed to travel back the following
day to my base at Enugu. I was at the hotel, sipping a soft drink, when Ayogu
walked up to me.”
Ayogu told Nol that he admires her, and the lady, fearing the man
believed her to a sex worker because of the reputation of the hotel, replied
that she was not a prostitute.
Nol said: “Although I had corrected him, he still insisted that he likes
me and later said that he wanted to have sex with me. It was because he was
bothering me that I told him that I would meet him after I finished my drink. I
went into my room with him. He asked me how much, he would have to pay me for
making love to me. After everything, he gave me N1000. And just as I was about
to get up from bed, he held me and put a rope round my neck. He closed my mouth
and my nose, I couldn’t breathe. I started shouting; people in the hotel came
to my rescue. I don’t know his intention or why he tried to strangle me.”
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