Two suspects in the murder of Cynthia Akuzogwu Udoka, daughter of a retired General, testified to police how they drugged the 25 year old, raped and then strangled her in a botched attempt to steal her money.
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Two suspects in the murder of Cynthia Akuzogwu Udoka, daughter of a retired General, testified to police how they drugged the 25 year old, raped and then strangled her in a botched attempt to steal her money.
Suspect Ezekiel Nnechuwu Olisa Eloka, 23, told police they killed Cynthia because they believed she had a lot of money. But after taking her life, they did not find any significant amount of cash.
Suspect Eloka and Echezona Nwabufor, said they met the victim on Facebook and 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 put a drug 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.”
Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Umar Abubakar Manko, briefing journalists on how police were able to arrest the suspects, said detectives made use of the close circuit television 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 victim 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.
Meanwhile, the victim’s best friend, Aishatu Ene Ella, decried the senseless killing.
“In the last few days, I have seen my heart torn, stripped and broken into pieces,” she said, “first by the disappearance and death of my dearest friend and secondly by the wickedness exhibited by Nigerians passing judgment on someone they never knew or met.”
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