Salala District, Bong County – A man has confessed to shooting his long-time girlfriend to death. Police investigating the death of Fatu Yarkpah, 29, a resident of Mansansue Town in Salala District, said Friday that they had arrested the victim’s boyfriend, Jacob Nyumah.
Report by Selma Lomax, [email protected]
Jacob, 50, admitted to FrontPageAfrica Friday to succumbing to rage after discovering that his girlfriend had been cheating on him. “I shot my girlfriend after I noticed that she had a different boyfriend. I begged her on many occasions to leave the boyfriend and she refused. So, I got angry and shot her in her chest with my single barrel gun,” he said.
He said he had confronted his girlfriend with evidence of her cheating on him with another man. “I saw a photo of her and the boyfriend in her phone when I confronted her about the evidence she denied,” he said.
Joshua said they had a fight over what happened and the last straw was his girlfriend, whom they have been together for nine years, told him she had fooled on him for a long time.
“I shot my girlfriend after I noticed that she had a different boyfriend. I begged her on many occasions to leave the boyfriend and she refused. So, I got angry and shot her in her chest with my single barrel gun.”
– Jacob Nyumah, 50, Alleged Murderer
Joshua, after allegedly murdering the victim ran in the bush to invade arrest. The police then used a friend of his to track him down under the pretext of helping him to bury the deceased so as to avoid further suspicions, but was arrested at the bush where the burial was to take place.
Jeremiah Peabody who claimed he was at the scene, told FrontPage Africa Saturday that the deceased had a child from a previous relationship and lived with Joshua in her rented room in the town.
According to him, the relationship had suffered some problems lately and Fatu had made up her mind to break it but Joshua was not happy about her plans.
He noted that Fatu, who had determined to leave the relationship, had even ordered Joshua to leave her room – an order which seemed to have heightened his anger.
On Wednesday at about 3:00 am, neighbors said they heard a gun sound from the room of Joshua and Fatu. By the time residents appeared on the scene, Fatu was lying in the pool of blood but Joshua had by then vanished.