Newly recruited female Army personnel found dead in lover’s residence in Adamawa

A 23-year-old lady, Patience Amos, has allegedly died in the hands of her boyfriend in Yola, Adawama state.

The decomposing body of Patience was found in the lover’s room days after she died, perceivably after a violent argument.

Neighbours said they heard voices of Patience and the boyfriend, Ali Wakil, at his residence in Damilu in the Jimeta area, Yola, but did not take it serious that might turn this fatal.

‘’Residents became suspicious when we could not see the lady for good three days, and what worried us more was the terrible odour emitting from their room,’’ one of the source who is the neighbour said.

He said the door to the room was locked from the outside, causing a difficult access.

‘’What compounded the situation was how the door of the room was locked from the outside, a development which compelled people to forcefully open the window of the room only to discover the body of the female lover at the stage of decomposition,” the neighbour said.

Patience was newly recruited into the Nigerian Army, while the boyfriend claims to be a military personnel serving with 68 Reference Hospital Yaba in Lagos state, but this claim is being doubted.
The discovery of the dead body took the neighbours to the palace of the ward head who reported to the police, and traced Patience’s father.

The father, Amos Ya’u, explained that his daughter left his house to braid her hair but did not come back. He said they had called her on the phone on that fateful evening, but she told them that she would be coming back home.

He said they called her line later on Sunday but it was not going through, since that day, they didn’t hear from her until four days later when a police officer came and informed him of her death.

The state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Suleiman Nguroje, confirmed the murder of Patience and said the suspect had since been arrested after the Commissioner of Police directed his arrest.