ENUGU, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- Police Operatives in Igbo-Eze North Division of the Command, with assistance from Neighborhood Watch Group, have arrested one male suspect, Junior Augustine Akor., in Enugu State.
Akor, 21-year-olf, hails from Ette in Igbo-Eze North Local Government Area, Enugu State.
He was arrested for allegedly raping and strangling to death his 16 years old female relative, one Faith Akuji, on 8 June, 2023, in a bush at Mpole-Ubere in the Ette community.
This was disclosed by DSP Daniel Ndukwe, Police Public Relations Officer, State Headquarters, Enugu, in a statement on Thursday.
According to preliminary investigation, the victim had gone missing in the evening hours of 8 June, 2023, after her grandfather sent her to grind cassava in the community centre.
All efforts made to trace her whereabouts, however, proved abortive.
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Her decomposing body was, however, found in the mentioned bush, following the arrest of the suspect, who confessed to having dragged the victim into the bush, forcefully had carnal knowledge of her, until she fainted and died in the process.
“The victim’s remains, found without any lower-body cloth, were evacuated to hospital and confirmed dead by doctors on duty,” the statement added.
Ndukwe noted that the case is undergoing further discreet investigation at the Homicide Section of the State Criminal Intelligence and Investigation Department (the State CID for short), from where the suspect will be arraigned in court upon conclusion of the investigation.
Consequently, the Commissioner of Police, CP Ahmed Ammani, while consoling the family and friends of the deceased victim, described the act as atrocious and unthinkable.
He, therefore, directed that the case be meticulously handled and concluded within recorded time and charged to court for justice to be dispensed accordingly.