She made the confession on Friday 19th February 2021, when she was paraded by the Cross River State Police Command alongside, her boyfriend, one Mr. Okon Effiong and 11 others in Calabar.
According to her, “I have known the owner of the gun who is my man-friend since last year, he sleeps with me and supports me with little things, but he is not the one paying my school fees,” she disclosed.
Speaking further, she said: “My mother knows about him because he visits me at our house and sometimes he sleeps over at my place because I have my own room then in the morning he goes back to his own house”.
She claimed to be taking the pistol to a blacksmith before it was confiscated by the school principal.
The Cross River State Police Commissioner, Sikiru Akande, said the police discovered from investigation that the girl was taking the locally made double barrel pistol to a blacksmith.
Mr. Akande, also said that investigation was ongoing to unravel the mystery around the ownership of the gun, adding that a suspect Okon Effiong, has been arrested and more details would be made known soon.
Her boyfriend Mr Effiong said he has been intimate with her since August 2020.
“I am a married man with six children, I did not give her the gun, she took it herself where I kept it under the bed.
“I started sleeping with her August last year, her mother knows me, I have been doing small something on her head. They know she is my wife”, he said.
It would be recall that the student on February 11th 2021, took a gun to her school after her teacher asked her to cut her tainted hair.
