Facts are beginning to emerge as to reasons that may have prompted Mr Gheng Chu, a Chinese national based in the Kano State, to kill his erstwhile girlfriend, Ummukulthum Sani.
Eighteen-Eleven Media scooped at the weekend that what culminated in last week’s murder of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member started many months earlier.
According to informed sources, Chu dated Ummukulthum for a very long time. In fact, he was said to have been solely responsible for the deceased university education in Uganda. He reportedly bought a house for her family and got a job for her two brothers in which one of the brothers stays in one of his houses in Abuja.
Ummukulthum was said to be the breadwinner of the family following her father’s death.
It was also said that her paternal family kicked against her marriage to Mr Chu. Based on the pressure from her family, she reportedly got married last December to another man. Although she was married to another person, she didn’t completely cut ties with Mr Chu. She later got divorced from her marriage and came back home.
On returning home, she picked up her relationship with Mr Chi where she left it but later on wanted to quit while the Chinese insisted on them getting married. They had an argument and she refused to pick up his calls because it was alleged that he was abusive towards her even in the relationship.
He felt betrayed and became resentful towards her. He went to the family house, forced his way to her room, and stabbed and slit her throat while the mother called for help.
Eighteen-Eleven Media had last week reported the confirmation of the dastardly act by the Kano State Police Command. The Police Public Relations Officers (PPRO), SP Abdullahi Haruna during a press conference on Saturday in Kano said that the Command received a distress call on Friday evening at around 10 pm and that the Commissioner of Police, Mr Lawal Abubakar, dispatched a team to the scene.
He said, “the 47- year-old Chinese visited the residence of his 22-year- old girlfriend, Miss Ummukulthum Sani, and they got involved in an argument before he allegedly stabbed her many times with a knife.
SP Haruna explained that when the Police team got to the scene of the incident, they rushed the victim to the Murtala Muhammed Specialist Hospital where she was confirmed dead.
SP Haruna also confirmed the arrest of the suspect, saying that a detailed investigation into the case had been launched on the orders of the Commissioner of Police.