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Story Of How A Married Man Set Himself And His Girlfriend Ablaze In Benue by ExAngel007(op): 2:23pm On Nov 21, 2020

Nico had last Saturday doused fuel in a room and
set himself and his girlfriend Priscilla on fire,
which led to their death.

More details have emerged about the married
man, Nicodemus Nomyange, who set himself and
his girlfriend on fire in Benue state.

The Holy Bible in the book of Jeremiah 17:9 says,
“the human heart is the most deceitful of all
things, and desperately wicked. Who really knows
how bad it is?” Little wonder Nicodemus
Nomyange, popularly known as Nico, succinctly
achieved his evil plot without batting an eyelid or
being suspected by his victim Priscilla Shiminenge
Pam.

It will be recalled that Nico had last Saturday
doused fuel in a room and set himself and his
girlfriend Priscilla on fire, which led to their
death.

According to Daily Trust, Nico, said to be in his
40s and a staff of a Guest House in Makurdi, had
set himself and his girlfriend ablaze over the
lady’s refusal to his marriage proposal.

The incident occurred at about 5pm in the
unsuspecting lady’s residence while she was
cooking dinner for her ex-lover.

It was learnt that trouble started when the lady
told Nico that their relationship could no longer
continue because she was set to marry someone
else since Nico was already married.

The development was said not to have gone down
well with Nico who severally threatened Priscilla
and even assaulted her on few occasions and
eventually stopped visiting her, which paved way
for her new relationship to blossom.

Witnesses said Nico – a father of three children
who hailed from Mbaton-Abeda in Logo Local
Government Area of the state, went to his village
and divorced his wife in a desperate bid to
convince Priscilla of his intentions of marrying
her. But the lady wouldn’t bulge as she stuck to
her new found man.

A neighbour of the deceased lady, Sunny Paul, who
narrated the incident to Daily Trust Saturday,
said “I noticed the lady was in her room while the
man sat outside; we all know him in the compound
so his presence didn’t raise any dust. The man
came and appealed to her to cook something for
him to eat. She told him that there were no
ingredients in the house and that the only money
in her possession was meant for her church dues
but he compelled her to use the money and that
he would pay back.

“So, she set yam to boil (as you can see traces of
the yam littered everywhere) and went to a
nearby shop to buy okra by which time the man
also went out and returned with a 10-litre gallon
of fuel.

“As soon as she returned and entered the room, I
heard her scream in Tiv language, calling for help.
When I ran to her door step, alongside other
neighbours, we discovered that the door was
locked and the man had soaked the room, himself
and the lady with the fuel. In a bid to save them,
we broke the door and at that point, the man lit
the matches in his hand and the fire overwhelmed
them.

“We (neighbours) became helpless; we couldn’t help
them any longer as we turned our attention to
saving the entire building from being overtaken by
the fire,” he said.

A close friend of the deceased man, Teryima
Ajagua, described Nico’s action as ‘sheer
wickedness’.

Ajagua, who spoke to Daily Trust at the premises
of Millennium Guest House where they (Ajagua and
the deceased) both worked until the unfortunate
incident happened, said he still could not come to
terms with the actions of the late man.

Ajagua said he was with the deceased until 12
noon on that fateful day and had no inkling of
what his friend was up to. He said the deceased
had called Priscilla to tell her that he would be at
her house, not far from the hotel, and that she
should prepare him food to eat.

“It’s really sad. It was purely an act of wickedness
because he was not mentally unstable as some
people alleged. He simply went to her house and
did the unimaginable,” he said.

Ajagua further told our correspondent that he
had accompanied the deceased man to his village
about a month ago to divorce his wife on account
that he wanted to marry Priscilla, who had
consistently maintained that she would not marry
him.

A nephew to the late Nico, Kelvin Numyange, said
he knew his uncle with the lady for a long time.
Kelvin said though he does not live with his uncle,
he however visited him frequently to help out with
domestic chores, noting that on the particular
day, the deceased had called him to come and
assist with laundry.

“I saw when he took the gallon to buy fuel. He
told me he was coming back but I noticed that
he’d been pensive for some days before the
incident.

“I came and washed clothes for him as usual. But
before he left, he told me his account number,
showed me how to unlock his phone and left the
handset with me, only for me to hear the sad
news moments later,” Kelvin added.

At the Lobi Hospital where the late Priscilla
worked, staff are still in shock even as they
described the deceased as a good fellow. Nancy
Orave, an attendant at the hospital, said the late
nurse was a very lovely lady who was loved by all.

The landlord of the burnt house, Charles Akimbo,
was however quoted in a local tabloid as saying
that the incident was unfortunate. He appealed to
government and good spirited individuals to assist
him repair the damaged structures as that
remains his only source of livelihood.

Priscilla, who hailed from Kwande Local
Government Area of the state, was said to be
planning for her 35th birthday celebration in
December, alongside her wedding, before her
untimely death.

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