Landlord allegedly hacks couple with machete after the woman ‘refused his advances’

A landlord in Rivers State, identified simply as Alabo, has been wanted by the authorities after allegedly hacking his tenant and her fiance.

The landlord who resides with his tenants at Ekwulobia Street Mile 3, Diobu in Port Harcourt City Local Council of Rivers State, on Sunday, May 15, allegedly attacked a lady named Comfort and her fiance, Stanley Nwagadi, with a machete over the refusal of the tenant’s wife to sleep with him.

Comfort Nwagadi, narrating from her hospital bed, accused the Landlord, Alabo of making sexual advances at her, not more than once.

Comfort said a quarrel ensued after Alabo lambasted her for keeping a “jobless” man who she feeds in her home, after she refused his advances yet again.

According to her, it started on Sunday morning, May 15 when Alabo removed and threw down the clothes she had previously washed and spread on the line.


She claimed that when she went to pick up the clothes, the landlord, in his ‘usual manner,’ started to verbally abuse her, saying, “instead of man to keep you at home, you are throwing yourself at a man.”

Her fiance, Stanley heard the utterance of the landlord and there was an exchange of words between them.

She said the co-tenants had to intervene and she left the compound with her fiancé.

“I picked the clothes. He started abusing me that I kept a jobless man in the house and was feeding him. He tells me that every day.

“I told him it was none of his business. So, my husband came and asked him why he was always making such comments. He told the landlord to stop making a mockery of us and he walked away. In the evening when my oga (husband) came back, we were walking on the passage into the compound.

“We didn’t know he (landlord) had stood in his doorway with a machete. He started cutting my head and my hand with the machete.

“When my husband came to defend me, he also cut his hand with the machete,” the woman said.

Her husband, confirming the incident, said; “I came to defend my wife, but before I knew it, the landlord started cutting my hand with a machete.

“Before people could come around to ask what the problem was, he had run out of the compound. Nobody knows where he is now.”

The state acting Police Public Relations Officer, Grace Iringe-Koko, confirmed the incident, adding that cops were on the trail of the landlord.

“The perpetrator is on the run, but we will ensure he is arrested and made to face justice for the crime he committed,” Iringe-Koko stated.