A woman identified as Onyinyechi Chinaka, is currently battling for her life at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba, after she lost her 7-month-old pregnancy following a stab by a co-tenant at No. 11, Anjorin Street, Mushin area of Lagos State.
The suspect who has been arrested at Olosan Police Station, was said to have stabbed 7-month-old pregnant Chinaka several times on the stomach using a kitchen knife, according to reports.
Chinaka, a mother of had allegedly caught the suspect stealing some money from her purse and in his desperate bid to cover up his crime, the suspect stabbed stabbed her severally and left her to bleed to death but for the timely intervention of some neighbours who took her to the hospital.
Narrating the ordeal from the hospital bed, Chinaka said: “I was at home that fateful day when my children came to me in the kitchen where I was cooking to say electricity had been restored, and that I should come to the living room to play a cartoon video, called Power Ranger, for them.
“I left what I was doing and went to operate the television for them. But to my astonishment, I saw the neighbour in my room. He was going through my purse to steal money. I caught him red handed. He was shocked. I said, ‘So, you are the one stealing all the money that has been missing in this compound’. I was shocked because I trusted him and we had never quarreled before.
“I usually left my children with him and he entered my house the way he liked, but for him to be stealing was shocking to me. As I was still talking to him, he ran out of the room and before I knew what was happening, he came back with a kitchen knife and told me that he will stab me with it.
“I thought he was joking but to my shock, he moved close and, as I attempted to escape, he held me and started stabbing me with the knife. He stabbed me until I lost consciousness. I did not know what happened next. I only found myself in hospital and, after surgery, I was revived.
“My husband told me that I was stabbed and would have died but for God’s mercy. I could not feel my baby anymore. I was seven months pregnant but my baby was not kicking.”
In his confessional statement, the suspect said: “I went to her house to steal money. She caught me but a spirit told me to stab her, so I went to the kitchen and took the knife and stabbed her with it.
“I stabbed her because I did not want her to reveal to other neighbours that I am a thief. I fled the house when I saw blood gushing out. It was my brother who exposed me.
“He saw a cut wound on my hand and he questioned me where I got it. I had to confess to him that I used knife to stab Mrs Chinaka. My elder brother took me to the Olosan Police Station and I was arrested.”
