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The killers of Cynthia Akuzogwu Udoka, the general’s daugher who was recently murdered have opened up about how they committed the heinous act. Read below:
wo murder suspects who were paraded today by the Lagos State Police Command, Ikeja, Echezona Nwabufor, 33, and Ezekiel Nnechuwu Olisa Eloka, 23, have narrated how they drugged the daughter of a retired General, Miss Cynthia Akuzogwu Udoka, 25, and strangled her in order to steal her money.
One of the suspects, Eloka, said they killed Cynthia because they thought she had a lot of money in her possession. But after the dastardly act, they did not find a reasonable amount of money on her.
Covering their faces: The twi suspected killers of Cynthia, a retired General’s daughter, paraded today in Lagos. Photo: Oluwasanmi Joseph.
According to the suspects, “we met her on the facebook on our Blackberry. We 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 gave her Reflon tablet 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.”
The suspects and the General’s daughter became friends on Facebook and were exchanging messages and phone calls.
She told them she was coming to Lagos. They met her at Murtala Muhammed Airport, Ikeja from where they ushered her into a hotel in Festac town, Lagos.
Briefing journalists on how policemen were able to arrest the suspects, Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Umar Abubakar Manko, said detectives made use of the close circuit television, CCTV, at the hotel where the crime was committed to identify them.
The late Miss Cynthia Akuzogwu Udoka
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 late Cynthia 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 late Cynthia’s best friend, Aishatu Ene Ella, has paid a glowing tribute to the deceased.
She said: “In the last few days, I have seen my heart torn, stripped and broken into pieces, first by the disappearance and death of my dearest friend and secondly by the wickedness exhibited by Nigerians passing judgement on someone they never knew or met.”
-PM News
This is a shame
This is a lesson for facebook addicts. Sharing sensitive information, nude pictures, careless disclosure about your employment, family, business etc with total strangers has caused a lot of people pains and emotional struggle. Many added friends careless without sufficient checks and had their lives ruin with bitter memories left in the trail. A word is enough for the wise, learn from other mistakes
May her soul rest in peace. It is however important to probe some aspects of this story that is not clear: 1. How could someone meet strange people on facebook and trust them so much that she could go with them to a hotel without telling anybody 2. How come she did not even tell the person that claims to be her best friend her reason for going to Lagos and whom she was meeting? 3. Being a lady why did she not request the guys to meet her where she stays or at a neutral place? 4. How did the criminals get her dead body out of the hotel? There is more to this story. I hope the Nigerian police can crack it. The lesson for everyone is to know that evil people are on the prowl for money and power. Lets all be careful.
@EMEKA, the killers didn’t get her body out of d hotel, they called the hotel n asked them to “dispose the body of the bastard” left in the room were she was killed. I Watched their live confession posted on this site.
I Sincerely feel der is more to this story,too many loose ends all d facts don’t add up.