Anita Ofili, a Nigerian woman arrested for allegedly killing her friend in Lagos, has confessed to the crime.
Ofili is accused of brutally murdering her friend, Glory Okon, in her apartment at Greenville Estate in Lagos’s Ajah district.
Ofili explained her motivation for the act, saying she waited ten years to carry it out as part of a revenge plan.
She claimed her friend, Glory, kidnapped her boyfriend ten years ago, and she has been plotting her retaliation ever since.
“Glory and I had been good friends for years, but she betrayed that friendship by snatching my boyfriend.”, she said.
A call for help from Ofili’s one-room self-contained apartment at 1.20 p.m. on March 26th alerted building occupants, according to Vanguard.
The building’s occupants allegedly forced the door open, only to find Ofili thrusting a kitchen knife into Okon’s neck.
Unfortunately, the victim, who was rushed to Lagos Island’s General Hospital, was declared dead after losing so much blood.
One of the building’s tenants, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, stated:
“The landlord’s daughter was the one that heard the scream. She peeped through the window and saw a masked person stabbing a lady. She rushed and called her father, who alerted other tenants that forced the door open, only to discover that the masked person was Anita Ofili. The whole room was filled with blood. We discovered that the victim was still breathing. We had to tie Ofili’s legs and hands to prevent her from escaping. Before the arrival of the Police, Ofili did not show any sign of remorse. She said she would explain to the Police what happened. She claimed the lady in question was her friend and that her action was in revenge for what her friend did to her.”
SP Benjamin Hundeyin, spokesperson for the Lagos State Police Command, confirmed the incident.
“At 5.50p.m., on March 26, a resident of Greenville Estate came to the station to report that he heard someone screaming from the room of one Annie Ofili, that himself and other tenants quickly rushed to the room, forced the door opened only to meet Annie on top of Glory Okon, who came to visit her.
Upon the information, a team of detectives moved to the scene. The suspect was arrested, the knife recovered, while the corpse was deposited at the Mainland General Hospital mortuary, Yaba, for autopsy and preservation. The suspect has been transferred to the SCIID, Yaba, for discreet investigation.”
