According to the Enugu State Police Command, a 21-year-old male named Augustine Akor has been detained for allegedly raping and killing a teenage girl named Faith Akuji, who was reportedly a relative.
According to a statement issued by the police on Thursday evening and signed by DSP Daniel Ndukwe, the police public relations officer, the suspect was apprehended on June 12, 2023, at around 9.30 am by its agents working in the Igbo-Eze North Division of the Command, with support from the Neighbourhood Watch Group.
According to Ndukwe, the 16-year-old victim was allegedly raped on June 8 and then strangled to death in a bush at Mpole-Ubere in the Ette community to cover up the crime. The suspect, a 21-year-old native of Ette in the Igbo-Eze North Local Government Area, is believed to have committed both acts.
Preliminary investigation, according to the statement, revealed that the victim had gone missing in the evening hours of June 8, “after her grandfather sent her to grind cassava in the community centre, with all efforts made to trace her whereabouts proving abortive.”
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Ndukwe said that “Her decomposing body was, however, found in the 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 the hospital and confirmed dead by doctors on duty.”
The PPRO said that the case was undergoing further discreet investigation at the Homicide Section of the State Criminal Intelligence and Investigation Department, adding that the suspect will be arraigned in court upon the conclusion of the investigation.
The command’s spokesperson quoted the Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Ammani, to have condemned the incident describing it as atrocious and unthinkable while consoling the family and friends of the deceased victim.
The commissioner was, therefore, said to have directed that the case be meticulously handled and concluded within recorded time, and the suspect charged to court for justice to be dispensed accordingly.
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