“She Slapped Me…” Man Explains Reason for Strangling Girlfriend to Death

The Lagos State Police Command paraded 31-year-old Kelechi Williams yesterday Wednesday 6th August 2014 for strangling his girlfriend 39-year-old Njideka Lizzy Nzewe (a mother of 4) to death.

Kelechi was nabbed by police officers at the border between Ghana and Cote D’Ivoire.

The murder took place at late Njideka’s apartment after a physical altercation on Saturday 19th July 2014.

He narrated how she died to reporters. Read below;

“Lizzy was my girlfriend. I knew her three years ago. But we started getting serious in February this year. 

I came back from Ghana to visit her on July 16, 2014 which was on a Wednesday. The next day we went out and came back late. 

On Friday, she told me to stay back at home and rest because I was tired. She left the house, saying she was going to the new apartment she was to pack into, assuring me she would be back as usual by 6 p.m. 

But she did not return by 6pm. Rather, the gate man came with a power generating set, saying madam had gone to drop the workers.
When it was 8 p.m. and I did not see her, I started calling her on phone but she did not pick. I called her up to 30 times without response. 

She came back by midnight and when I asked why she did not pick my calls, she said the phone was in silent mode. I brought out my phone and called her line only for it to ring.
At that point I noticed she was drunk. I got angry and asked if that was the way she would pay me back for leaving everything in Ghana to come and spend time with her. 

I threatened to quit the relationship. But at that point, her phone rang and I told her to pick it but she insisted that I should pick it and when I did, the caller, who was a male, asked ‘baby are you home?’ 

Immediately she discovered it was a male’s voice, she snatched the phone from me and asked why I should pick her calls. I reminded her of a similar incident when she came to visit me in Ghana and my phone rang. She picked it and on discovering it was a female, she smashed the phone on the ground, without knowing who the caller was.
I reminded her also that she collected my other phones from me and brought them to Nigeria. In anger, I took the phone and smashed it on the ground. 

Before I knew it, she threw my things outside, saying I should leave her house. I told her to give me the N300,000 she borrowed from me to buy an air conditioner, if she wanted me to leave but she said she had no money with her and gave me her ATM card which she said had just N140,000. 

At a point, she slapped me and we started fighting. She held on to my manhood and started stretching it. That was when I held the wrapper that was around her neck and used it to strangle her, thereby forcing her to let go my manhood. She fell down and became motionless.
Immediately, I took her three phones, ATM card and went outside to meet the gate man to see me off to any ATM machine, where I withdrew N100,000. 

I dropped the gateman at home, and told him I was going to pump the tyre. At that point, I knew I was in trouble. I did not go back to her house for fear of being arrested.
I drove straight to Mile Two, from where I picked a driver who drove me down to Ghana. I spent some days in Ghana before I decided to leave for Cote d’Ivoire, where unfortunately I was arrested. 

I never wanted to kill her. I have never fought in my life, let alone kill somebody. I did not also steal her jewellery and N8 million as claimed by the Police. The only money I withdrew was N100,000 and her phone.”

Umar Manko for the Lagos State Command said that he locked the house to make it appear that they had gone out together.

Kelechi Williams, after the incident, reportedly also took the stolen SUV to church to declare it was his, made an unspecified donation and threw a party to celebrate the new car.