It was a trag--carnival like mood at a Yaba Chief Magistrate’s Court, Lagos, which was filled to capacity on Monday as the police arraigned four suspects over the murder of Cynthia Osokogu, daughter of Maj-Gen Frank Osukogu (retd.), on July 22, 2012.
The accused persons were also charged with robbing the deceased of her artificial sex toy vibrator, shoes, hand bag, BlackBerry phone, passport, driving licence, three wristwatches, four rings, three pairs of earrings and other properties.
The accused persons - Okwumo Nwabufo (33), Ezike Olisaeloka (23), Orji Osita (32) and Maduakor Chukwunonso (25) - were charged with eight offences.
Nwabufo and Olisaeloka are students while Osita and Chukwunonso are pharmacists.
Some of the charges levelled against the accused were murder, rape, robbery, administering an obnoxious substance to the deceased without her consent.
The Magistrate, Mr Olalekan Aka-Bashorun, said the accused persons should be remanded in prison custody pending the advice of the Director of Public Prosecutions. The case was then adjourned till October 3, 2012.
A mini-drama however unfolded outside the court room as journalists and members of the public scrambled to take pictures of the accused persons.
“The pharmacists are not killers. Their charges were only mixed up with those of the other two suspects (Nwabufo and Olisaeloka),” their lawyer said.
Meanwhile, the Osokogu family has said Cynthia would be buried on September 7, 2012 at Bebe, Ovia Agbor, Ika South Local Government Area of Delta State.
Mrs. Joy Osokogu, said her daughter was “very industrious, hardworking and a respectful child.” She advised youths to be very cautious of making friends with people that they do not know.
She said, “Youths should be very careful, especially when they are making friends on the social media. Like we have seen in the case of my daughter, such friends may have ulterior motives.”
Nwabufo and Olisaeloka are students while Osita and Chukwunonso are pharmacists.
Some of the charges levelled against the accused were murder, rape, robbery, administering an obnoxious substance to the deceased without her consent.
The Magistrate, Mr Olalekan Aka-Bashorun, said the accused persons should be remanded in prison custody pending the advice of the Director of Public Prosecutions. The case was then adjourned till October 3, 2012.
A mini-drama however unfolded outside the court room as journalists and members of the public scrambled to take pictures of the accused persons.
“The pharmacists are not killers. Their charges were only mixed up with those of the other two suspects (Nwabufo and Olisaeloka),” their lawyer said.
Meanwhile, the Osokogu family has said Cynthia would be buried on September 7, 2012 at Bebe, Ovia Agbor, Ika South Local Government Area of Delta State.
Mrs. Joy Osokogu, said her daughter was “very industrious, hardworking and a respectful child.” She advised youths to be very cautious of making friends with people that they do not know.
She said, “Youths should be very careful, especially when they are making friends on the social media. Like we have seen in the case of my daughter, such friends may have ulterior motives.”
This is one of the saddest case in recent times,
ReplyDeletepls ladies lest not forget this issue in a hurry.
ENDURANCE
Guys are getting too desperate to live large without commensurate work and that is the beginning of greed!
ReplyDeleteWhy is this Nwabufor guy trying to cover his face naa? Is he not d person that called d hotel and told them to come and take away the 'Bastard' that is Cynthia's dead body,after raping her for twelve hrs and finally strangling her?
ReplyDeleteIf only d law will deal swiftly with other cases of this nature,this guys would have seen that as a deterrant b4 killing Cynthia! I called Nigeria to ask if this case was causing ripples over there and to my utter surprise,lots of babes haven't even heard abt the case!
I am sure a lot of girls have been raped,drugged and had their money stolen,but out of fear,they have not spoken up. If this doesn't serve as a lesson to u,nothing will!
This boys useless well,well. So na becos of pussy wey make them go loose them life? Cythia and the Nwabufo guy had two different objectives in this fatal encounter. She accepted his flight to Lagos and accomodation hoping she would see d gooda at d hotel. Nwabufor invested money on her coming to Lagos hope to fuck her and finally disposses her of huge money. When she got to d hotel and did not see any goods,sahe refused to have sex with d beast of a man.then he now invited his cousin who had been an accomplice in earlier trysts with women and when they ransacked Cynthias stuff and they didn't see much money,combined with d fact that d drug waa not working,they strangled here!
ReplyDeleteAll of them need to be hang for their crime.They are all evil people.I hope Boko Haram catch the lawyer of the pharmacists b4 d next court date so that they go take am make SUYA 4 talking that rubish that they are not killer.They are equaly responsible for selling the medicine to those thugs.
ReplyDeletesex toys?
ReplyDeleteThe guys supposed to be bury alive..Folish boys.
ReplyDeletemay this people no just try rubbish ohhh cos if they do we will start taking laws into our hands ohhh,this guys should not be killed straight oh,they should be tortured gradually ohhhh and that is just the truth ohhh.May her soul rest in peace.
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