The Enugu State Police Command says it has arrested one 21-year-old man, Augustine Akor, for allegedly raping and murdering a teenage girl, identified as Faith Akuji, said to be his relative.
A statement the police released on Thursday night, signed by the Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Daniel Ndukwe, said the suspect was arrested on June 12, 2023, by its operatives serving in Igbo-Eze North Division of the Command, with assistance from Neighbourhood Watch Group at about 9.30 am.
Ndukwe said that the 21-year-old suspect, who hails from Ette in Igbo-Eze North Local Government Area, had allegedly raped the 16-year-old victim on June 8, and strangled her to death in a bush at Mpole-Ubere in the Ette community to cover-up the crime.
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.” Continue Reading…
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