School principal, others arrested over killing of pupil, nurse

“When we collected the money and were sharing it, we had an issue. My friend stabbed me with a knife, took the money, and ran away. I struggled and took myself to someone’s house and told the person what was going on. But I didn’t tell the whole truth at that time because I was afraid the community might have killed me immediately,” said the suspect.

He added that he later sought medical help and eventually confessed to the police after receiving treatment in a hospital.

“I insisted on seeing the police so they could take me to the hospital and I could explain the whole story properly. The man told me to wait while he called the police. When the police came, they took me to the hospital. After I received treatment, they began to ask me what happened, and I started narrating the whole story from the beginning.”

Asked why and how the nurse was killed, David said she was lured into a trap under the guise of checking something in a toilet, where Sunday, who was hiding, strangled her with a rope.

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“I went to call her from her class, while Sunday was hiding in the toilet. When I called her, I told her I wanted to show her something near the front toilet where Sunday was hiding. As we were going, he came out from behind and held the woman. He put a rope around her neck and started strangling her until she became weak after struggling”.

He claimed the child was also later taken and killed at Sunday’s insistence adding, “Then he (Sunday) told me to run and go bring the baby so we could also kill the baby. I said no, that the woman alone was enough.

“He insisted, saying that if we didn’t bring the baby, the ransom we demanded wouldn’t be enough. So, I went and brought the baby.”

The Security guard claimed, “I have never killed or kidnapped before. I have never done such a thing. This was the first time someone pushed me into any evil act.”

Asked more on the nurse he said, “There’s no relationship. The woman has been nice to me. In fact, that very day, she gave me ₦300 to buy food. She had been giving me money to eat even before then.”