Ritualist butchers 21-year-old girlfriend, tries to dispose body

An alleged ritualist has been arrested in Nigeria for killing his girlfriend. The young girl was a 300-level biochemistry student. Her murder is one in a series across Africa in recent years.

It was a crowd-pulling scene at Road 15, NTA Road, Port Harcourt, Nigeria, on Wednesday and Thursday after the mutilated body of Justina Tiffany Otuene was found in her boyfriend’s house, whose name we got as Collins.

Tiffany, a 300-level biochemistry female student at the University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT), had been declared missing for days before the recent discovery.

“We are devastated; it is very sad for us; our mom cannot take it,” Tiffany’s elder brother told the BBC Pidgin in an interview.

In a video circulating on the social media platform, X, formerly called Twitter, Collins (the victim’s boyfriend and killer) was caught by his estate security personnel when he was trying to dispose of the victim’s body.

The videos show that the suspect’s neighbours alerted the police after they found the body parts of the victim in bloody bags in his flat.

Authorities have arrested the suspect, and the body parts of the victim were taken to the mortuary.

A few days ago, Sierra Leonean authorities arrested a Nigerian influencer who killed his girlfriend in Nigeria and fled the country. The victim, Augusta Osedion, was also a student at Lead City University in Ibadan at the time of her murder.

Similar incidents have occurred in Cameroon. In Ndogbong, Douala, the commercial city of the country, a man stabbed and killed his girlfriend.

In Tiffany’s case, she was “butchered” and put in sacks by the lover before his cover blew. Tiffany is the fourth child in her family, according to family sources.