Police parade suspected killers of General’s daughter in Lagos

Posted by admin Headlines Wednesday, August 22nd, 2012

POLICE in Lagos State have arrested two undergraduates, suspected to be responsible for the death of Cynthia Osokogu, daughter of a general in the Nigerian Army, whose remains were discovered in one of the mortuaries in the state.

The state Commissioner of Police, Umar Manko, while parading the suspects before newsmen at the state police command headquarters in Ikeja, claimed that the arrested persons were friends to the deceased on one of the social media sites, Facebook.

Investigations by the police revealed that the suspects invited the deceased to Lagos through Facebook, where they killed her in an unnamed hotel, before they escaped with some of her belongings.

Unconfirmed reports also had it that the suspects had lied to the deceased that they were into distribution of clothing materials, when they found out that she operated a boutique.

The commissioner identified the suspects as Nwabufor Okwumo, a 3OO-level student of Accountancy at the University of Lagos and Ezekiel Odera, also a 300-level Accounting student at the Anambra State University.

The Lagos police boss, while giving an insight into the incident, said it all began on July 22, 2012, when the deceased was invited through Facebook chat by Okwumo to Lagos, so as to spend some times with him at his resident in FESTAC.

Investigations by the police revealed that the two suspects drugged Cynthia when she got to Lagos, before they both raped her and strangulated her to death.

Okwumo, while speaking with the Nigerian Tribune, blamed it on “the devil,” while he also confessed that he had, on many occasions in the past, lured unsuspecting ladies to hotels in FESTAC, where they were raped and, in some cases, robbed.

Odera, a cousin to Okwumo, also confessed that they had, in the past, been making money from the act of luring girls to where they were raped and robbed.wp_posts