A 24-year-old food vendor simply identified as Amaka on Tuesday, stabbed a 27-year-old man to death in Bonny Island, Rivers State over payment for food.
The young woman whose mother has a restaurant at the Shell Gate area of the island, stabbed to death, a young man simply identified as Victor who has a tailor shop close to the restaurant for not completing the payment of the food he bought from her mother’s restaurant.
Eye witnesses told theportcitynews that the price of the food was N500 but the deceased paid N300, and told her he’ll come back and give her the N200 balance later.
The lady allegedly refused and it resulted into a fight leading to the woman grabbing a knife from the stack which she used to stab him on the abdomen.
He bled to death before being taken to the hospital.
The eyewitnesses said the police arrived at the scene and arrested the young woman while the body of the young was deposited to the mortuary.
The Bonny Divisional Police Command declined comments when theportcitynews.com called for inquiries. The police officer, however, directed our correspondent to the public relations officer of the state command, Nnamdi Omoni.
However, a police officer who didn’t want to be named confirmed the incident, adding that the lady had be detained pending investigation into the matter.
