The Delta State Police Command has arrested a suspect simply known as Prince for allegedly stabbing a fellow student identified as Peace within the premises of the Delta State University of Science and Technology, Ozoro.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, SP Bright Edafe, disclosed this in a video shared on his X (formerly Twitter) handle on Friday, and viewed by City Round.
According to Edafe, the suspect, armed with a kitchen knife, lured the victim, a 100-level student of the university, to the auditorium, where he allegedly stabbed her twice in the neck and chest.
Parading the suspect in the video, Edafe also displayed the mobile phone and knife as exhibits, adding that the victim is still in a critical condition in the hospital.
Edafe said, “With me is a phone and what is supposed to be a kitchen knife, but was used as a weapon in an attempt to murder a 100-level student of the Delta State Science and Technology, Ozoro.
“On the 14th of June, to be precise, the suspect invited someone he claimed to be his friend, named Peace, to their school auditorium. This girl, on that fateful day, went to see him in the auditorium. Whatever the conversation they had, the suspect stabbed the girl twice on her neck and stabbed her also in the chest region.
“Having done that, he took the girl’s phone and called the girl’s father that the girl had been kidnapped and a ransom of N2m should be sent to him for the girl to regain her freedom. He later called again that N200,000 should be sent as an advance. Unfortunately for him, he never knew the poor girl didn’t die.”
Prince, who was interrogated in the video, confessed to having known the victim for a month before he invited her to the auditorium.
He admitted that he went to the auditorium with the knife to kill Peace so he could “collect ransom from her father.”
“She didn’t do anything wrong to me. When I met her that day, we were just discussing school activities and how they are moving us to Warri. She opened her phone for me before I stabbed her.
“The account I wanted them to transfer to me was owned by a friend in Lagos, and I intended to tell him that a certain money had been sent into his account.”
Edafe noted that Prince would be charged in court and duly prosecuted and assured Peace’s family that she would get justice.
