The incident occurred at Karu, Abuja the place Ben resides.

SaharaReporters gathered that Ben, as he’s fondly referred to as, had dated Maria for ten years with out formally marrying her regardless of having a baby collectively, a seven-year-old woman.

It was gathered that bother began when Maria determined to stop the connection after she discovered one other lover, who needed to marry her and had fastened December to start marital rites.

In response to the relations, Ben allegedly threatened to kill his ex-lover’s new man or each of them if she did not depart him.

To make his menace actual, on Sunday, Might 23, 2022, Ben allegedly stormed her condominium at Home 10 Fatima Gold Property, Maraba, Abuja round 5 pm when her new lover visited and demanded that she ought to discharge him.

“She refused and didn’t enable him inside. They had been reportedly speaking exterior the home earlier than he lured her into his automobile for additional dialogue. As quickly as they obtained contained in the automobile, Ben locked the doorways and allegedly threatened her with a gun, saying he would kill her if she refused to discharge the brand new lover.

“After inflicting psychological trauma, he left her. The following day, Monday 24, he returned to finish what he began,” Maria’s elder sister, Cecilia instructed SaharaReporters.

She stated that Benedict later referred to as her to come back to the Nigeria Customs Service hospital in Karu round 8:30 pm on Monday, to see the lifeless physique of her sister.

She alleged that regardless of not residing collectively, Ben nonetheless come to her condominium to assault her on a number of events to the extent {that a} week after she gave start, he raped her.

Chronologically Cecilia narrated to SaharaReporters the unlucky incident, thus: “Maria is my youthful sister and he or she has been in a relationship with one Benedict Ugwuoke for the previous ten years and so they had a baby collectively. The kid is seven years outdated now and he or she is with my mom. My sister is 31 years outdated. They don’t seem to be residing collectively as my sister rented an condominium at Fatima Gold Property Maraba, the place she was residing earlier than this unlucky incident.

“So many occasions, my sister would name me or she would come to our home with bruises, generally with a swollen face. Once you requested her, she would say it was Ben that did it to her. Sadly, each time we needed to take him up, my sister would say that we should always depart him. It continued for a very long time and when she gave start, he raped her per week after. Just lately my sister instructed him that she was quitting the connection since he was not able to marry her.

“For the reason that notification, he began threatening her to such an extent that he got here to the condominium to ask her to discharge somebody who needed to marry her and had been launched to relations.”

Persevering with, Cecilia stated, “On Monday, round 8 pm, Ben referred to as asking me to satisfy him at Nigeria Customs Service hospital in Karu instantly. I used to be making an attempt to ask what was the matter however he insisted I ought to come instantly. So, everybody in the home stated let’s go there as a result of since afternoon we had been calling my sister however she had not been answering.

“Relations together with her associates and fiancée had referred to as a number of occasions and a few needed to come to our home to test what was occurring. Everybody at this level was nervous.”

She famous that her fiancée, Popoola Abiola Victor, had referred to as her to search out out if Maria was in her home.

“We had been praying when Ben’s name got here. I rushed to the hospital together with her fiancée, Victor, solely to see my sister mendacity down within the hospital mattress. Instantly, I referred to as my elder brother who instantly got here.

“Once I requested Ben what occurred to her, he stated he did not know. After we enquired from the physician on responsibility, he instructed us that somebody (Ben) introduced her to the hospital within the afternoon.

“He (physician) additionally stated that the particular person dropped a fallacious cellphone quantity with the hospital and left and that when the hospital needed to refer her to a much bigger hospital, they might not see the particular person; and likewise couldn’t attain anybody on the quantity the particular person had supplied. The cellphone quantity he dropped was the fallacious one. At this level, my brother invited the police who took him to the Karu Police Station to present a press release on what occurred to her,” she narrated

Persevering with, Cecilia stated that Ben had seized her sister’s telephones in order that no person may entry her till she died.

She stated, “He collected all her telephones and no person was capable of attain her. When my son got here, he now gave him Maria’s cellphone and wristwatch.

“He did not agree that he hit my sister after we had been on the hospital however after we obtained to the police station, he instructed the police that when she got here to his home and so they had been speaking, he was offended and hit her and he or she began vomiting.”

She added, “Ben additional instructed the police that my sister got here to his home round 1pm and that she was solely complaining of a headache and he combined a malt drink with milk and gave her. He additionally stated he gave her paracetamol and thereafter she was steady for some time earlier than out of the blue, she began vomiting and he now rushed her to the hospital.

“He additionally instructed the police in his assertion that she died of Excessive Blood Stress (BP).”

Cecilia additional acknowledged that when he was requested why he did not name any of her relations, he stated he didn’t consider it.

“On why he took her cellphone and did not need anybody to achieve her, he stated that the cellphone was on a seat the place she was sitting in his home earlier than he rushed her to the hospital and that he left it in the home,” she stated.

When Cecilia was requested what the police had executed to date, she stated, “Karu police station has transferred the case file to FCT SCID for additional investigation. They visited Ben’s home on Tuesday, the room had been cleaned so the police had been capable of see traces of any vomit.”

She maintained that her sister wants justice, including, “He’s the one who killed my sister as a result of after we went to his home with the police, somebody had cleaned the home. That they had mopped the home earlier than we obtained there however we’ve got gotten the rag utilized in cleansing her vomit and different proof.”

Victor, Maria’s lover, additionally shared Cecilia’s account of the occasion, including that Ben had threatened to kill him if he did not depart her.

He stated Ben all the time stated she was his wife.

In the meantime, efforts to get a response from the FCT Police Command had been unsuccessful because the spokesperson, Josephine Adeh, didn’t reply her calls or reply to textual content messages despatched to her.