Recounting the incident that led to the victim’s death, the father of two said this was actually the second time he was visiting her house in Lagos.
He said:
“I met her online sometime between September and October 2014 on facebook and weIt was learned that the suspect’s wife who works with Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, in Ibadan, was at the State Investigation Department, SCID, Panti, last Wednesday to see her husband.
began to chat. Early this year she came to Sagamu to visit me and she spent two days with me. She actually came on Friday and went back to Lagos on Saturday.
“I have an apartment where I work in Sagamu but my wife and children live in another apartment in Ibadan. I came to see her in Lagos around first week of March where I spent the weekend with her. This was the second time I visited her.
“On that fateful evening, we went out, spent quality time together and later retired to her apartment and slept.
‘’At about midnight, she began to complain about headache and then she started coughing. She coughed for a long while. It was when the coughing persisted that I had to go and knock on her next neighbours’ door to help me locate a nearby hospital, since I am not familiar with Lagos terrain.
“So with the help of her neighbours, we went to a nearby private hospital (names withheld). After examining her condition, she was referred to the general hospital. At this time, her condition was getting worse, yet I did all I could to get her to the hospital.
“With the assistance of her neighbours, we made it to Ifako General Hospital in Ogba. By the time they began to attend to her, she had passed on. I am not in any way responsible for her death.”
Ezekiel was arrested over the death of his facebook lover, Adekemi, who died during his visit to her apartment at 5, Folorunsho Street, off Ajayi Road, Ogba.
How long are Nigerian Police authorities gonna keep locking up people who happen to be present when someone dies? Why can't this man simply be on bail? In this day and age,can't they conduct a simple autopsy to find out the cause of this young lady's death?It is embarrassing how they keep doing this.Imaging locking up this poor guy all this time,without establishing the way or how the woman died.He took her to a hospital..They can have all these details checked out.It is this stupid black magic stuff we all believe in that makes our people think anyone that dies must have been killed!
I hope for the sake of this young lady's memory,this rubbish is cleared up pretty soon.On the other hand,i guess Christopher Ezekiel will not be cheating on his wife again for a long time!
source-Vanguard