Tuesday, 28 August 2012
Cynthia to be buried Sept 7 – Family
Jos – Miss Cynthia Osokogu, the victim of an Internet dating transaction, will be buried on Sept. 7 at Bebe, Ovia Agbor, Ika South Local Government Area of Delta, the family said.
Cynthia, a postgraduate student of Nasarawa State University, Keffi, was allegedly killed by friends she met on the social media, Facebook, at a hotel in Festac, Lagos in July.
The suspected killers of the young woman allegedly lured her to Lagos on a phoney business deal and killed her in a hotel room.
Mrs Joy Osokogu , who announced the date to journalists in Jos on Monday, advised youths to be very cautious of making friends with people that they did not know.
“The youths should be very careful, especially when they are making friends in the social media. Like we have seen in the case of my daughter, such friends may have ulterior motives.
Osokogu described her deceased daughter as “very industrious, hard working and a respectful child.
“She was my daughter, my friend and my sister. Her memory will never be forgotten because she touched so many lives positively in her short stay on earth,” she said.
Osokogu said Cynthia’s killers had demanded N20 million ransom from the family.
“The killers of my daughter demanded a ransom of N20 million from my son, Flt- Lt. Kenneth Osokogu,” she said.
Osokogu said the killers sent her son, who is in Makurdi, a text message demanding that he paid N20million into an account which did not exist.
“The killers were not picking our calls; they only communicated to us via text messages.
“When my son got their SMS, he later replied them that the account number was fake and didn’t exist.
“He sent another message in which he said that if it was a case of kidnapping, he would like to speak with his sister before making any payment but the killers did not respond,” Osokogu said.
She said, however, that when she spoke with the suspected killers, they did not ask her for any money.
Osokogu said she spoke last with Cynthia on July 22, when she called to say that she was travelling to Lagos to get her goods.
“But the next day, I didn’t hear from her. When I tried to reach her, all her phones were switched off.
“After one week, the phones started ringing but no one was picking.
“Few days later, people I believe to be the killers, called and said that my daughter was in one Symbol Hospital in Lagos.
“I called the police I had earlier reported the case to, to go and verify if she was in the hospital, they said there was no hospital like that.
“After a while, I called the number and told them I wanted to speak with her but they said that it was not possible.
“When I asked why, they said she would come back but that I wouldn’t speak with her.
“When I called the number again, they said they had killed her and that was when we declared Cynthia missing,’’ Osokogu said..
The police in Lagos last week announced the arrest of some persons in connection with the murder of Cynthia. (NAN)
Cynthia, a postgraduate student of Nasarawa State University, Keffi, was allegedly killed by friends she met on the social media, Facebook, at a hotel in Festac, Lagos in July.
The suspected killers of the young woman allegedly lured her to Lagos on a phoney business deal and killed her in a hotel room.
Mrs Joy Osokogu , who announced the date to journalists in Jos on Monday, advised youths to be very cautious of making friends with people that they did not know.
“The youths should be very careful, especially when they are making friends in the social media. Like we have seen in the case of my daughter, such friends may have ulterior motives.
*Late Cynthia Osokogu
“She was my daughter, my friend and my sister. Her memory will never be forgotten because she touched so many lives positively in her short stay on earth,” she said.
Osokogu said Cynthia’s killers had demanded N20 million ransom from the family.
“The killers of my daughter demanded a ransom of N20 million from my son, Flt- Lt. Kenneth Osokogu,” she said.
Osokogu said the killers sent her son, who is in Makurdi, a text message demanding that he paid N20million into an account which did not exist.
“The killers were not picking our calls; they only communicated to us via text messages.
“When my son got their SMS, he later replied them that the account number was fake and didn’t exist.
“He sent another message in which he said that if it was a case of kidnapping, he would like to speak with his sister before making any payment but the killers did not respond,” Osokogu said.
She said, however, that when she spoke with the suspected killers, they did not ask her for any money.
Osokogu said she spoke last with Cynthia on July 22, when she called to say that she was travelling to Lagos to get her goods.
“But the next day, I didn’t hear from her. When I tried to reach her, all her phones were switched off.
“After one week, the phones started ringing but no one was picking.
“Few days later, people I believe to be the killers, called and said that my daughter was in one Symbol Hospital in Lagos.
“I called the police I had earlier reported the case to, to go and verify if she was in the hospital, they said there was no hospital like that.
“After a while, I called the number and told them I wanted to speak with her but they said that it was not possible.
“When I asked why, they said she would come back but that I wouldn’t speak with her.
“When I called the number again, they said they had killed her and that was when we declared Cynthia missing,’’ Osokogu said..
The police in Lagos last week announced the arrest of some persons in connection with the murder of Cynthia. (NAN)
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The photos below show two of Cynthia’s suspected murderers, ” Okwumo Echezona Nwabufo and Ezike ilechukwu Olisaeloka” and the Pharmacists that sold the drugs to the murderers “Orji Osita and Nwadiokor Chukwunonso”.
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Monday, 27 August 2012
Police arraign four persons over Cynthia’s murder
Four suspects were on Monday arraigned before a Yaba Magistrate Court for killing 24-year old Cynthia Osokogu, who they met on social media platform
The suspects, Okwumo Nwabufo, Ezeike Olisaeloka, Orji Osita and Maduakor Chukwunonso, are standing trial on an eight-count of felony, conspiracy, robbery and murder.
Their charge sheet states that the suspects killed the deceased by administering her with Rohypnol Flunitrapezam, binding, torturing, and strangling her.
It also adds that the suspects, along with some others at large, raped and robbed the deceased of valuables that included an international passport, a mobile phone, shoes, bags, wristwatches and jewellery.
The first and second defendants, Okwumo and Ezike, had earlier been paraded by the state police command, where they admitted to luring Cynthia to Lagos via facebook.
They also admitted to drugging, binding, assaulting and killing her.
At the sitting, Magistrate P. Adekomaiya asked the Police Prosecutor, Chukwu Agwu, to forward the case file to the Director of Public Prosecutors (DPP).
Mr Adekomaiya adjourned the case to October 3, 2012 for mention, pending the advice of the DPP
The suspects, Okwumo Nwabufo, Ezeike Olisaeloka, Orji Osita and Maduakor Chukwunonso, are standing trial on an eight-count of felony, conspiracy, robbery and murder.
Their charge sheet states that the suspects killed the deceased by administering her with Rohypnol Flunitrapezam, binding, torturing, and strangling her.
It also adds that the suspects, along with some others at large, raped and robbed the deceased of valuables that included an international passport, a mobile phone, shoes, bags, wristwatches and jewellery.
The first and second defendants, Okwumo and Ezike, had earlier been paraded by the state police command, where they admitted to luring Cynthia to Lagos via facebook.
They also admitted to drugging, binding, assaulting and killing her.
At the sitting, Magistrate P. Adekomaiya asked the Police Prosecutor, Chukwu Agwu, to forward the case file to the Director of Public Prosecutors (DPP).
Mr Adekomaiya adjourned the case to October 3, 2012 for mention, pending the advice of the DPP
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Youths chase Ondo monarch out of palace
Oba Akinfesola Adewola of Igburowo community, Odigbo Local Government, Ondo State, was on Sunday chased out of his palace by youths.Our correspondent learnt that the group of youths, who marched to the palace early in the morning and barricaded roads leading to the community, made the monarch to trek several kilometres to a village on the Ondo-Ore highway where they left him.
The protesters carried placards that read ‘Enough is Enough, 16 years of No Development,’ ‘No to backwardness, Igburowo says no to Akinfesola’ ‘Go, Akinfesola, Go,’ ‘Igburowo community rejects you Pius Adewola’ and ‘Adewola is a wife snatcher, Igburowo, rejects you’.
Youth Leader of the community, Mr. Samuel Adeyemi, said the protest had no political undertone but was carried out to show their dissatisfaction with the leadership style of the monarch.
Adeyemi alleged that Adewola was accused of engaging in fraud, forcible acquisition of land belonging to his subjects, frivolous litigation over subject’s property, non-performance of traditional rites and assaulting his chiefs and subjects.
But the traditional ruler denied the allegation, saying they were unfounded and meant to damage his reputation.
Adewola told our correspondent on the telephone, “I don’t know what to say now because I have not done anything to warrant the treatment being meted out to me.”
The second-in-command to the monarch, Chief Festus Ogunsesin, described the incident as “highly unfortunate and embarrassing”.
A senior police officer at the Ore Divisional Police Station, Mr. Adeleye Abayomi, who led some policemen to the area, pleaded with the protesters and monarch to go with him for a meeting with the DPO of the station, Mr. Adekimi Ojo, over the matter.
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