A lady identified as Lauretta Onoh has been arrested by the police in Akwa Ibom State for allegedly killing her lover, one Chikoka Chukwuemeka, and absconding with his Mercedes Benz car and N7 million.
It was gathered that Lauretta was arrested on August 4 in Uyo after the business associates of the deceased, who is a business man, launched a search for him after all means to reach him proved abortive.
Chukwuemeka was said to be found in a pool of his own blood in his bedroom on Sunday, August 1.
The deceased’s Benz was thereafter tracked and Lauretta was caught chilling in a hotel on Wednesday.
The spokesperson of the police command in Akwa Ibom, Odiko MacDon, said in a statement on Thursday that Emeka was found dead, with a cut on his head, in his apartment in Uyo and that his black 4Matic Mercedes Benz car with Reg. No. EKY 694 GP was stolen from the house.
MacDon said, “Operatives painstakingly trailed and arrested the principal suspect, one Lorretta Anoh who was last seen entering the apartment of the deceased on the 3/8/2021.
“An instant search on the suspect led to the recovery of the sum of two million, nine hundred and forty-three thousand, two hundred and fifty Naira (N2,943,250.00) which she confessed to have stolen from the victim.
“The suspect at the point of arrest was making arrangements to change the ownership of the 4Matic car of the deceased to her personal property.”
The state Commissioner of Police, Andrew Amiengheme, has ordered that the case be transferred from a divisional police station to the State Criminal Investigation Department.