tpia@:


sometimes the truth has to be told.

if the girl had understood all this, she might have been more careful about her movements and who she associated with.

the ones that remain alive, are allowed to do so for a reason- namely their death is not yet needed.

and vice versa.

people [girls especially] do not understand the concept of slavery.

Bobajo: I am floored at the fact that nobody could get the faces of these, these ... i am lost on what to label them - subhumans maybe. Something is not right now. They've probably been arrested for sometime, some moneys paid and all identification that would really expose them and their kins already taken off the social media and other sites they could be on.

I personally would like to see their faces and know their people. I will like to ask from them and their parents - even if rhetorically - how come they turned out these depraved.

We need to properly name and shame them. I am unsatisfied that they are not identifiable.

jerseyboy: [size=16pt]Who Raised These Animals?[/size]

Niseamaka:


Nigeria raised them. A country that celebrates criminality. A country that glorifies and promotes idiots with cash irrespective of how it was acquired.

Niseamaka:


Nigeria raised them. A country that celebrates criminality. A country that glorifies and promotes idiots with cash irrespective of how it was acquired.Recently, a close relation of mine was abducted and murdered after the abductors collected two million naira ransom from his family. Nigeria is a sick country where almost everyone even teenagers are willing to do almost anything nomatter how heinous so as to "hammer". I just came back from a four weeks holidays in Nigeria with my wife and kids. Inspite of having a very comfortable dwelling in my hometown, we were hiding from hotel to hotel for our safety and security. That country sucks. Everyone wants the shortest cut to wealth and prosperity and all short cuts to wealth and prosperity is riddled with acts of criminality.

yamakuza:

i still dont understand why no one knew her movements. maybe they had a cellphone jammer as well?

how slavery take enter this one?

tpia@:


its not certain on one knew her movements.

you heard no one knew her movements. There's a difference.

obviously, the killers' friends are also these threads very closely. While trying to spread misinformation.

abo oro la nso fomoluabi.

bro, na everything i suppose explain?

ije12385: the fool that calls him/herself "Kensandrea" you are a disgrace to make such a stupid comment about a deceased person. you are empty as you can get. pray that non of your family member is in a situation far worse than this, since you are soo holy and never made any mistake in your life. Bottom line is nobody deserves to die, no matter what the Bleep was done. We all make mistakes and its unfortunate that a decision made by this young girl caused her her life. She does not deserve to die. What is wrong with the world these days, people supporting wrongful killing of people. To all of you that has made comments to support the death of this young girl, you ought to be ashamed of yourself. You are the biggest disgrace to your country and your family. Shame on you all. Empty vessels. I challenge any of you to comment and disagree with me.

Mr. Globe:

Exactly my point just now. I mean this people should know that not every Nigerian is a dunce and lazy thinker!

A model, yesterday, showed up at the headquarters of Lagos State Police Command in Ikeja, claiming she was a victim of the two undergraduates, who confessed to have killed Cynthia, the only daughter of Gen. Frank Osokogu(rtd), in a hotel located in Lake View Estate in Amuwo Odofin, Lagos.

The lady, whose identity could not be ascertained, arrived the Police Command at noon, demanding to speak only with the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Umar Manko.

She was directed to the CP’s waiting room before being ushered to the CP’s office, where she described herself as a model.

She reportedly told the CP that she was at the Command in respect of the suspects. She said the two undergraduates, Nwabufo Okwumo, and his cousin, Odera Ezekiel, were the same persons that dispossessed her of her belongings in a hotel in Festac.

However, Vanguard could not get a detailed account of her ordeal in the hands of the suspects, as the CP was said to have immediately directed her to the Area E Commander, Mr. Dan Okoro, who led the team of investigators that uncovered the suspects’ activities.

When contacted, the Command’s boss confirmed the visit, explaining that he directed her to the Commander so that she could physically identify the suspects. He called on other females, who had fallen victims to show up.

He said: “Other victims are advised to show up so that if there is any need to expand our investigation, we will do so.”

Meanwhile, when Vanguard, yesterday, visited hotel in Lake View Estate, where the post-graduate student of Nassarawa State University met her sudden end, no one could offer explanation.

Rather, a private security guard claimed that none of the managers was around, and referred the reporter to the Police.

MURDER suspect Okomu Nwabufo’s arrest for the killing of Cynthia, Major-Gen Frank Osokugo’s daughter, was dramatic and eventful, The Nation learnt yesterday.

Nwabufo, 33, tried to escape through the ceiling when the police stormed his Festac Town, Lagos home, the officer who led the team seized him said.

Area “E” Commander Dan Okoro said: “Immediately he saw policemen, he went back into the house. When we heard noise, like the house zinc was being pulled, we climbed up to his apartment and noticed that he was trying to escape through the ceiling. Unfortunately for him, his legs broke the ceiling as he was trying to escape and I pulled him down.”

Mr. Okoro, an Assistant Commissioner of Police, said detectives were led to the suspected killers by an anonymous call to the hotel, asking that the body of the “bastard” be removed.
He said police investigators picked the number and went through the network’s call log.

Okoro said: “When we called the number that was more consistent, we discovered it was that of the girlfriend of one of the suspects (23-year-old Odera Ezekiel), the one in Anambra and we lured her to come to Lagos.
“Through her, we started communicating with the suspect who said he was in Cotonou and we went there but did not get him. She called again and he said he had left Cotonou for Awka in Anambra and we moved there and he was not in Awka.
“He later called his girlfriend to say he was in Nnewi and plain cloth policemen moved to the place with her. I told her to hug her boyfriend when she sees him so that we can use that sign to identify him and that was exactly what she did when the suspect came out from a joint within the neighbourhood where he was arrested.

“He was moved to Lagos and around midnight, I started interrogating him and we told him that the prime suspect, his uncle who he identified from the footage of the CCTV, had confessed that he was the person that killed Cynthia and that he said because he lied to him and did not give him all he collected from the deceased, he (the uncle) decided to open up.”

According to Okoro, the suspect opened up, telling investigators the entire story.
He also took them to the home of the prime suspect on Sixth Avenue, Festac Town.

Okoro said: “We got there around 3am and we were there until about 4:30am when the prime suspect came out to the balcony.
“Immediately he saw policemen, he went back into the house. When we heard noise, like the house zinc was being pulled, we climbed up to his apartment and noticed that he was trying to escape through the ceiling. Unfortunately for him, his legs broke the ceiling as he was trying to escape and I pulled him down.”

Cynthia, a post-graduate student of Nasarawa State University, Keffi, was allegedly killed by Okwuoma Nwabufo and his cousin, Ezekiel, on July 21.

The suspects had said that they were both accounting students of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) and the Anambra State University.

However, Ezekiel’s claim has been dismissed by Mr. Festus Ntomchukwu, the Public Relations Officer of Anambra State University, Uli.

He told reporters in Awka: “Such a character cannot be a student of the institution.

“The school is still in session, and if truly the suspect is a student of the university, as he claimed, he will not be out in Lagos when the institution is seriously preparing for examinations.”

He argued that the School of Management Sciences to which the Accounting Department belongs, is holding an international conference, which every student is expected to attend.

“For such a character to have been away in Lagos when the school is preparing for examinations and members of his faculty preparing for a compulsory international conference, he should be disregard,” Ntomchukwu said.

The Distance Learning Institute (DLI) of University of Lagos yesterday refused to disclose whether Nwabufor, is a student of the institute as he claimed.

Nwabufor had told the Police he is a 300 Level student of Accounting in UNILAG’s DLI. The institute’s Director was not around, when The Nation sought to confirm this claim from DLI but officials at the institute’s secretary’s office requested for Nwabufor’s Matriculation Number.

“No student is known by name. We only deal with Matriculation numbers,” said a female official who later went in to ask from the institute’s secretary.

When she came out from the secretary’s office, she told our Reporter that “he [the secretary] does not want to be involved. He said the boy is not a student of DLI.”

The Nation’s further investigation showed that Nwabufor’s name is not on the register of 300L Accounting Students of DLI.

A class representative, who has the register of students from 100L to 300L told The Nation “the name does not exist on the register.”