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| The two killers bowing their heads in shame.
Photo:
Oluwasanmi Joseph, PM News
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The two, Echezona
Nwabufor, 33, and Ezekiel Nnechuwu Olisa Eloka, 23, were paraded by the Lagos
State Police Command, Ikeja. They narrated how they drugged the daughter of a
retired General, Miss Cynthia Akuzogwu Udoka, 25, and strangled her in order to
steal her money.
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| Above: Cynthia. Below: Cynthia (Right) at her brother's wedding |
One of the
suspects, Eloka, said they killed Cynthia because they thought she had a lot of
money in her possession. But after the dastardly act, they did not find a
reasonable amount of money on her.
According to the
suspects, “we met her on the facebook on our Blackberry. We invited her to come
to Lagos to buy goods at cheap prices.
“When she got to
Lagos, we took her to a hotel in Festac. We thought she had a lot of money, but
she said she didn’t have any money. We gave her xxx tablet in her Ribena drink.
After this, we slept with her for 12 hours in that hotel. We discovered that
the tablet did not work quickly on her.
“We then
attacked her, tied her up and used cellotape to cover her mouth. After that, we
beat her to tell us where she kept the money.
“When we didn’t
get any money from her, we tied her mouth and strangled her and then we
abandoned her in the hotel and fled.”
The suspects and
the General’s daughter became friends on Facebook and were exchanging messages
and phone calls.
She told them
she was coming to Lagos. They met her at Murtala Muhammed Airport, Ikeja from
where they ushered her into a hotel in Festac town, Lagos.
Briefing
journalists on how policemen were able to arrest the suspects, Lagos State
Commissioner of Police, Umar Abubakar Manko, said detectives made use of the
closed circuit television, CCTV, at the hotel where the crime was committed to
identify them.
The Area
Commander, Area ‘E’ Police Command, ACP Okoro added that the suspects who are
undergraduates of Nigerian universities were nabbed through the call logs of
the telephone conversations they had with the late Cynthia who was a post
graduate student of Nasarawa State University.
When the
suspected killers strangled Cynthia, they deposited her corpse at the mortuary
of Isolo General Hospital in Lagos.
ACP Okoro stated
that many ATM cards, about 23 SIM cards, different identity cards were
recovered from the suspects.
Police sources
said the two suspects will soon be arraigned in court to answer a charge of
murder.
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