A middle-aged man Nicodemus Nomyange who set himself and his girlfriend Shininenge Pam on fire in Benue did so over the latter’s refusal to marry him, according to fresh facts gathered.
Nomyange had on Saturday evening visited his girlfriend’s house on Inikpi Street, in the High-Level area of Makurdi, with a gallon of fuel, which he used to set the apartment on fire.
The two lovers died in the inferno.
“Nomyange was married with children. But he proposed to the young lady, whom he claimed to have invested in,” one of Pam’s neighbours told PUNCH.
“But the lady, having sought advice from her friends, told him that he was too old for her and that she preferred to marry a younger man and not a man already with wife and children.”
It was gathered that the man rented the apartment for the woman and furnished it.
Benue police spokesperson Catherine Anene said witnesses told the police that they saw the man with fuel and they assumed that he wanted to use it for the generator.
“We heard that the man and the lady had been having misunderstanding before the sad incident,” she said, adding investigation was still ongoing.
