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| Stranguled: Cynthia Osukogwu |
The up and coming generation has mastered the evil of the
outgoing generation. What a shame!
Those who murdered Cynthia Osokogu are
students, according to a report by Punch this morning.
The lady would probably have suspected older men of sinister
motives, but would have seen these hoodlums as contemporaries, fellow pilgrims
of the digital age. Little did she know that while they spoke the language of
Facebook, Twitter and BBM, their feet were are planted firmly in the rotten
past of their progenitors.
According to The Punch, Cynthia, the only daughter of Major
General Frank Osokogu (retd), who reportedly went missing on July 22, 2012, was
strangled in a hotel by students in FESTAC, Lagos.
A senior police officer, who craved anonymity because he was
not authorised to speak on the case, said the deceased was drugged, bound hand
and foot and then strangled by her assailants.
Osokogu, who was a
postgraduate student in Nasarawa, came to Lagos to purchase goods for her
boutique.
The deceased was
received at the Murtala Muhammed Airport by the students, who later took her to
the hotel.
The deceased’s family
is based in Jos but she went to her friend’s place in Abuja, where she parked
her car before leaving for Lagos.
But the police source
said on getting to the hotel, the students used a powerful drug to paralyse her
and robbed her of her valuables, including an undisclosed sum of money.
The source said,
“According to the confession obtained from two of the suspects, they met the
deceased on the internet and lured her to Lagos to purchase goods at a cheaper
rate.
“On getting to the
airport in Lagos, the suspects took her to a hotel, drugged her, and bound her
by hand and foot. They confessed to inflicting pains on her and strangling her
before stealing her money, phone and identity card.
“The suspects
confessed that their modus operandi is to lure young females to Lagos for such
purpose. They said they had done it before.”
Our source said when Osokogu’s corpse was discovered by
employees of the hotel, the matter was reported to the police but because her
phones and identity card had been stolen, there was no way the police could
ascertain her identity so her corpse was moved to Isolo General Hospital.
Our source said there were indications that an employee of
the unnamed hotel was complicit and had been arrested.
He added that the pharmacist, who gave the rare drug which
was used to paralyse the deceased, had been arrested as well and was suspected
to be a member of the syndicate.
The police source
said the case was reported at the Area E command a few weeks ago but the police
only began to make headway recently when they received CCTV footage of the
suspects entering the room with the victim.
The source said the
police embarked on an undercover operation which led them to Ogun State to
arrest one of the suspects.
“The last suspect was
arrested at about 3am on Tuesday and we have almost completed investigations.
However, only two of the suspects have confessed,” the source said.
When contacted, the
spokesperson for the state police command, Ngozi Braide, said she could not
comment on the issue.
She said, “The
Commissioner of Police for the state Police command, Mr. Umar Manko, will hold
a press briefing on Wednesday (today) on the issue.
“The girl was killed
but all details will be disclosed during the briefing,” she said
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