Police parade suspected killers of General’s daughter

The police in Lagos on Wednesday paraded two persons, Okumo Nwabufo, 33, and Ezeke Oliselokan, 22, who allegedly killed daughter of a retired Major General in a hotel around FESTAC Town, Lagos.

The suspects were said to have come in contact with the victim, Cyntia Osokogwu, on Facebook prior to the dastardly act. They allegedly molested the victim sexually, chained her, before she was finally killed. The two suspects were said to be cousins. Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, Abubakar Umar Manko, told newsmen that one of the suspects, Oliselokan, was arrested in Anambra State, while his partner in crime, a 100 Level Accounting student of University of Lagos (UNILAG), was arrested in FESTAC Town. He stated that detectives from Area E Command, FESTAC got a lead into the case when they got the suspects’ photograph in footage from a Close Circuit Camera TV (CCTV) that was installed in the hotel. ”We discovered that two young men came to the hotel and went to the room and after sometime, came out with a package. “They were arrested and have confessed that they killed the lady, the police boss said. Manko explained that on July 22, the police in Festac Division found a lady dead in a hotel, tied and chained. According to him, the police discovered that somebody called demanding that “the body of bastard be removed”. He further stated that as at the time the body was found, the police had no details about the identity of the deceased. ”From the yellow card that was found, we got her passport number from the internet and the Nigerian Immigration Service. We were able to link her up and were able to establish her actual identity”, he said. Manko added that the suspects told the police that they started with the deceased on internet, during which they were able to establish that she was a business woman who used to come Lagos to buy wares and take to Abuja to sell same. “So we came to the conclusion that she must have money,” the suspects confessed. He said that one of the suspects gave her a flight ticket and an accommodation in the hotel. The suspects, according to the CP, drugged the Fruit Juice they gave to her. “The drug got the deceased knocked off and the suspects settled down for what they were there for.” She was said to have died in the process. ”She struggled before she collapsed and they got her killed”, he added. The suspects confessed to newsmen that they actually met the victim on Facebook and that their intention was to dispossess her of her belongings and not to kill her. Related posts: