The suspect who has reportedly been terrorising women in Port Harcourt was apprehended on his way to Uyo from Rivers state was arrested by security operatives.

Tribune reports that the suspect said he was not the member of any group but acted alone.

He reportedly said his dead mother was poisoned by unknown persons.

He said: “My mother was poisoned and she died of sickness. I am the only son of my father. I don’t have anybody, I work alone, I don’t even have a house.

“I don’t know what is causing that to me, I don’t really know what moves me into doing that but after doing it I start regretting, I start crying why I did it. I even went to Lord Chosen Church close to Obigbo branch. I told the pastor that I kill girls in the hotel that if he can help me that I don’t know what is wrong with me.

“The pastor invited me to a crusade saying that I should attend and meet the General Overseer that he would help me. I went to the crusade but there was no chance to see the General Overseer and the Pastor asked me to go that he could not help me.

He said he usually threatened the girls with knives before binding and killing them.

David West said: “I buy kitchen knives from those Hausa people that hawk knives. After I take them to the hotel and sometime in the middle of the night, I will wake them up and with knives, I would threaten to kill them if they screamed. I will use it to cut the pillowcase with which I tie them so that they cannot drag with me when l want to kill them.

“Some of them in that fear would now promise to give me money so that I will spare them. So, I will collect their ATM cards and their pins. I would deceive them to believe that I will not kill them while tying them up.”

Mustapha Dandaura who is the state commissioner of police said he has promised to rid the state of crime.

He said: “The Rivers police command is indeed elated with this achievement, but this did not come add a surprise. It could be recalled that on my assumption of duty as commissioner of police three months ago, I made a pledge to the good people of the state that I was here with the clear mandate, to fight crime and criminality head on and bring same to barest minimum.”

Airon News had reported earlier that the Nigerian police arrested a suspected notorious serial killer for allegedly being responsible for the death of women in Port Harcourt, Rivers state.

There has been report of killing of women in Port Harcourt in what has been suspected to be the work of a serial killer.

According to the police, the 26-year-old killer who is from Buguma local government area of Rivers state is also a member of the Degbam cult group.