YAHOO BOY SETS GIRLFRIEND ABLAZE FOR DOUBLE DATING

The statement added that Ifeanyichukwu met the victim on February  28, through a hookup and she moved into his house in March and they both moved to  G54, Army Post Service Housing Estate, Ojo, Lagos where they  lived in  the N600, 000 per annum apartment.

“Ifeanyichukwu met the victim on Feb. 28, through a hookup and she moved into his house in March. He has been into internet fraud popularly known as Yahoo boys for the past three years where he gets the proceeds for renting the apartment’, the police said.

 “However, trouble started on Thursday when the victim left home to fix her hair and did not return until the next day. She equally left the house on Friday under the guise of visiting her father but ended up seeing another man. Ifeanyichukwu got to know on Saturday when she returned by scrolling through her phone and saw her chats, video calls and pictures of herself naked which she sent to her client,” Elkana said.

Penpushing further reports that, the police said the ‘husband’ became angry and used the petrol he kept for his generator to set her ablaze, and a team of police detectives later visited the scene, and rushed the victim to General Hospital, Igando where she was admitted but died in the early hours of Sunday.

The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu as at the time of filing this reports has directed the immediate transfer of the case to Criminal Investigation Department Yaba, while the suspect  was said to confess to the commission of the crime and will be charged to Court for murder.