The Lagos State Police Command today paraded two murder suspects, Echezona Nwabufor, 33, and Ezekiel Nnechuwu Olisa Eloka, 23,
The two men are the masterminds behind the death of Miss Cynthia Osokogu, 25, a daughter of a retired General.
The two suspects narrated how they lured her to Lagos, drugged her,raped her and then 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.
The deceased got acquainted with killers on Facebook and after few months of friendship they were able to convince her to come down to Lagos, where the duo informed her she could get goods at cheap rate to stock her boutique.
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.”
It was after killing her that the culprits lledgedly deposited her remains at a mortuary.
Speaking at the public parade of the suspects, the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Umar Abubakar Manko said that police detectives were able to apprehend the criminals after obtaining recordings from a close circuit television, CCTV, installed at the hotel.
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.