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Thursday, September 6, 2012

Cynthia's killers use videos to make porn...may have 150 victims.

Nigeria Police say the killers of Cynthia Osokogu may have claimed up to 150 other victims. So far more than 40 victims, all girls have been identified as having been robbed and sexually assaulted by the two undergraduates, who confessed to have killed Cynthia, the only daughter of Gen. Frank Osokogu(rtd), in a hotel located in Lake View Estate in Amuwo Odofin, Lagos. It was revealed that the Police investigating the cases believe they are on the trails of 150 cases linked to the two suspects. A source connected with Police investigations disclosed yesterday that the modus operandi of the cousins who hail from Nnewi Anambra State, South east Nigeria is to contact their victims through the social media, especially facebook and promised good "business deals". The victims are then lured to a nice hotel where they are drugged, robbed and sexually assaulted while some of them were videoed and the pornography sold in west African countries. Last week a model showed up at the headquarters of Lagos State Police Command in Ikeja, claiming she was a victim of the two undergraduates, who confessed to have killed Cynthia. The lady, whose identity could not be ascertained, arrived the Police Command at noon, demanding to speak only with the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Umar Manko. She was directed to the CP’s waiting room before being ushered to the CP’s office, where she described herself as a model. She reportedly told the CP that she was at the Command in respect of the suspects. She said the two undergraduates, Nwabufo Okwumo, and his cousin, Odera Ezekiel, were the same persons that dispossessed her of her belongings in a hotel in Festac. Meanwhile friends, family members and neighbors of the late Cynthia Osokogu last night gathered at the St Morumba Catholic Church, Jos, for a necessary rite, which will culminate in her remains being interred in Delta State on Friday. The service was officiated by the parish priest of St Murumba, Jos , Revd. Father Philip Dung. He was assisted by Revd. Father Peter Ucun, the principal, St Murumba College, Jos. In his sermon, the parish priest, Rev Father Dung, said “Cynthia did not die for nothing because she died a Christian. She never allowed her educational career and her business to deprive her from worshipping her creator. But we need to say this loud and clear to whoever cares to listen, the death of Cynthia is another sad report card of our nation that fails to protect its citizens. The case of Cynthia may be one out of many. “It is time for government to shift attention to the kind of havoc caused by ICT. We focused too much attention on fighting Boko Haram and other forms of terrorism. It is time to focus on cyber made terrorism because it has claimed lives of many Nigerians silently. “The case of Cynthia should be used to salvage other potential victims of cyber crime because it is obvious that there are so many Nigerians who have gone throughmore terrible experiences than that of the late Cynthia.” Giving testimony on behalf of the family, Mr. Ralph Monye said “Friends and relations, I will tell you not to weep for Cynthia; you rather weep for her killers because they have committed crime that cannot be compounded. In law, it means it cannot be settled amicably with the killers. I wonder how God almighty will forgive them, but I wish God forgives them.” In another development, a new suspect was arrested on Tuesday by Lagos State Police command over the death of Cynthia Osokoguas. He was in possession of the late Cynthia’s Blackberry Bold 5 (99100Model) telephone. Lagos State Police Commissioner, Alhaji Umar Manko told newsmen detectives traced the suspect, Nonso Ezike, a graduate of Mathematics and Computer Science at the Federal University ofScience and Technology (FUTO), Owerri and a relative of one of thealleged killers, Chidera Ezike, paraded by the police recently in Port Harcourt where he was nabbed and brought to Lagos. 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 phony but unspecified business deal and killed her in a hotel room.

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