Two
undergraduates
of one of the South East state university have been arrested by Enugu
State Police Command over the murder of a Nigerian woman based in the
U.S.
According to the statement issued by the Command, the suspects identified as James Okoh and Victor Uchenna
Okefie are both helping the operatives of the Anti
Kidnap Unit of the Enugu state command of the Nigeria police Force in
their investigations in relation to their role leading to the untimely
death of a lady identified as Mrs stella Uhuo who was trapped in Enugu
on the day of her arrival from United states of America where she had
gone for vacation.
It
was gathered that on that fateful day, 14th
November, 2015, deceased person Stella Ohuo had allegedly contacted
James Okoh, a final year sociology student of the said university and
from
Amata in Afikpo local Government Area of Ebonyi state whom she had known
for long and usually assist the deceased in cab activities and
other commercial errands, that she will be landing from the US trip to
Enugu Airport on that fateful day. James was to convey her to Abakiliki
and deliver some luggage
given to her by some friends in United state of America.
On the said
day, Okoh came to the Airport with his friend identified as Victor
Uchenna Okefie in a Volvo car alongside some family members of the
deceased who came to welcome her. On arrival at the
Airport, personal luggage of the deceased was said to have been put in
the car brought by the family while the ones to be taking to Abakiliki
were loaded into the boot of the volvo car with registration number
LAGOS EKY 855 CY. It was further gathered that the family members had
allegedly left with the personal luggage of the deceased while
Okoh, Okefie left with the deceased and some luggage to Abakiliki.
Along
the way, okoh and okefie diverted the car off the busy Enugu Abakiliki
Expressway to a road side off the expressway at about 10AM of that
fateful day,a nd at that juncture it became obvious to the deceased that
something is wrong. To Okoh and Okefie that was a ripe time for them to
execute their illicit plan of dispossessing the deceased of all the
luggage contained in the car but resistance was shown which saw the
deceased
being beaten while in the car by the two of men until the deceased gave
up her ghost.
On noticing that the woman had given up the ghost, they
quietly and smartly brought her to a dust bin located near Enugu/
Abakiliki Expressway and dumped her body there and left with the luggage
and ransacked all the items contained therein including some
dollars, male cloths and ipads amongst others and fled.
Suspects have been
at large since the commission of the dastardly act until the operatives
who had been on their trail recently nabbed Okoh on 29th january,2016
in his hostel at Ebonyi state while okefie was trailed to his parents
house at Ajaokuta in Kogi state on January 31,2016 where he was
nabbed.To suspects,they are regretting their illicit act pointing out
that it was not their intention to kill the woman but to collect the
luggage and escape but the resistance of the woman made them to try to
beat her up so that it can be weak and that way paved way for their
smooth operation but it is unfortunate that the woman died. Suspects
however are begging for forgiveness.
Meanwhile,deceased is said to have
been helping okoh one of the suspects for many years back before this
incident and that was why she had the trust of calling him to convey her
as usual to Abakiliki and Unknown to her that okoh and okefie had
perfected arrangement to take her to the great beyond.
A full scale
investigations have commenced into the alleged incident just as the
deceased dead body has been in a nearby mortuary pending the conclusion
of the investigations.
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