A 27-year-old male, Joseph Fekala, confessed to choking a lady during their argument that led to her death in his apartment in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State capital.
Fekala, who hails from Ikibiri Community in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, was arrested on Friday for allegedly strangling 26-year-old Kate Oguoh to death on 28th July 2022.
DAILY POST interviewed him on Monday during the parade by the Bayelsa State Police Command at the Yenagoa Police Headquarters.
According to Fekala, who denied being a yahoo boy, “We got into an argument over the N50,000 she sent to me for the suppose of forex trade she wanted to do, I tried to explain that I spent the money and will repay her but she angrily responded and pushed me, so I pushed her back and she fell on the bed, and since I knew she was going to raise alarm and our neighbours will hear her voice so I held her throat and closed her mouth, and choked her to death.”
He stated that “on the first of July I came to Bayelsa State to do some maintenance in the house because Kate met me in February that she needed a place to stay, based on the fact that the person she wanted to go stay with in Lagos didn’t work out, so she needed where to stay for four months.
“So I gave her one of the rooms, and I was staying in the parlour, in a two-bedroom flat. I just got a job so I have to leave for Port Harcourt. I use to visit home to do some maintenance occasionally. So on the first of July when I came we met and we’re discussing, so she told me she wanted to trade forex since she knew some years back I used to trade for myself.
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