A middle-aged man, Patrick Essien, has been arrested by the Rivers State police command for allegedly stabbing his landlord to a coma in Rumuiprikon, Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of the state.
According to The PUNCH, the spokesperson for the state police command, Grace Iringe-Koko, confirmed the incident, saying the suspect (Essien) had been arrested.
Iringe-Koko, a Superintendent of Police, also said the landlord was receiving medical attention in the hospital.
It was gathered that the landlord, identified as Iheanyichukwu America, had gone to rescue Essien’s wife from him when she was being manhandled.
The wife of the landlord, Chioma America, said even when her husband intervened, Essien was still dragging his wife into their house.
She claimed that during his intervention, the landlord said he would not allow his tenant’s wife to sleep in that house that night to avoid further attacks by her husband.
Mrs America stated, “He (Essien) tried to drag the wife to go inside with him. But my husband said he would not allow him. He was still inside the house when my husband said he would not allow the woman sleep in their house because of the situation.
“That she should stay in my husband’s family house and in the morning we know what to do. So, he moved the woman out of their house.
“Then about 12 midnight, the man now came to attack my husband in the process of coming to check if his wife was in our house, but she was not there.
“The person he met was my husband, and he now unleashed the attack on him in place of his wife.”
