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| The suspects in court. Inset: Cynthia. Image: Cyriacus Izueke |
The suspects are Okwumo Echezona Nwabufor, 33, Ezike
Ilechukwu Olisaeloka, 23, Orji Osita, 32, and Maduakor Chukwunonso, 25.
They were slammed with
an eight-count charge of murder, armed robbery, administering the late
Cynthia with obnoxious substance known as Rohyenol via Ribena fruit drink,
among others.
According to the charge, the suspects also had unlawful
sexual intercourse with the victim without her consent.
Their plea was not taken. The court ordered that they should
be remanded in prison custody and their file duplicated for DPP’s advice.
The matter was adjourned till 3 October, 2012.
Cynthia Osokogu, the only daughter of retired Major Frank
Osokogu, was a post graduate student and boutique owner based in Nassarawa
State.
She met the undergraduates, who later murdered her, through
social networking site Facebook.
The principal suspects, Ezike Ilechukwu Olisaeloka, 23, and
Okwumo Echezona Nwabufor, 33, confessed to the police that they lured her to
Lagos from her base in Nassarawa State under the pretext that they are also
into clothing business.
After receiving her at the Murtala Muhammed airport in
Lagos, they took her to a hotel in Festac Town.
Eloka said they later put Rohyenol tablet in her Ribena
drink and slept with her for about 12
hours.
After discovering that
Cynthia did not have a lot of money on her as they earlier presumed,
they raped her for 12 hours and later strangled her.
Following the arrest and subsequent parade of Olisaeloka and his cousin, Nwabufor, over the
murder of Cynthia, three more ladies came forward, saying they were once
victims of the alleged murderers.
The three women reportedly went to Festac Police Command to write
a statement about how they were drugged, raped and robbed by the suspects now
facing trial.
-PM News
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