Police arrest 40-year-old man for alleged killing of pregnant girlfriend in Edo

A 40-year-old antheral identified arsenic Samson Ekata has been arrested by operatives of the Edo State Police Command for allegedly sidesplitting his large 18-year-old girlfriend.

DAILY POST reports that the authorities Commissioner of Police, Patrick Daaor, disclosed this connected Wednesday, October 21, 2026, portion parading the fishy and others arrested for assorted crimes successful the state.

Daaor said the incidental occurred successful Uromi, Esan North-East Local Government Area of the state.

He said the fishy allegedly murdered the woman, who had reportedly been surviving with him for astir a year.

He alleged that aft sidesplitting the woman, the fishy mutilated her body, severed her bosom and attempted to region her unborn baby.

In an interrogation with newsmen, the suspect, who admitted sidesplitting the woman, said it was his archetypal clip sidesplitting anyone.

Ekata, who besides admitted that the unfortunate had been surviving with him, claimed that helium committed the transgression nether spiritual infl...