A Port Harcourt-based businessman, Richard Nomanzi, has been found dead with multiple knife stabs in Rivers State.

Nomanzi, 43, who until his untimely death was dealing in metal scrap, was found dead with stabs in his residence in Ogbogoro community, Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of the state on Wednesday.

Daily Sun gathered that neighbours in his compound were perceiving an offensive odour emanating from his apartment and alerted the police as well as his relatives.

Sources disclosed that on entering the apartment, the neighbours saw his lifeless body.

A source identified as Gift, who confirmed the report, said an unknown person called her on the phone to break the sad news.

The lady, who disclosed that she is the mother of the deceased’s child, said she discovered that Nomanzi had several stabs and machete cuts on his body.

She narrated: “My name is Gift, the mother of Favour. Favour is the child of Richard Chijioke.

“I got a call by 3:15 pm yesterday (Wednesday), after school. I was at my business premises. The caller asked if I knew Richard Chijioke Nomanzi. I said yes. The caller asked what my relationship with him was. I told the caller I had a child with him.

“They said I should come to Ogbogoro. Behold, when I got there, I just saw his corpse at his door, the front side. When they turned him, I saw that they had stabbed him all over his face, his stomach, with a cut over his neck.”

Gift said, with the help of the police, the corpse was carried and deposited in a morgue.

She called on the police, appealing for an investigation into the matter and justice for the deceased and his child.

“So, with the help of the police, we took him to the mortuary. All I want right now is justice for him and for his child.”

The Rivers State Police Command is yet to confirm the incident at the time of filing the report.

However, it was gathered that the incident has been reported to Ozuoba Police Division under Choba Area Command in the state. (Daily Sun)