The Kogi State Police Command arrested four suspects in connection with the alleged gruesome murder of a female student of the Federal University of Lokoja, FUL.
According to police sources, a 21-year-old male reportedly kidnapped and murdered a 17-year-old 100-level biology student.
The command’s image-maker, SP Williams Ovye-Aya, while briefing newsmen in Lokoja said the key suspect reportedly masterminded the crime with three of his friends.
“On September 9, the Nigeria Police Force, attached to the State Intelligence Department (SID), Kogi Command, arrested one Jeremiah Paul-Awe of Chikun Local Government Area in Kaduna State.
“Paul-Awe was the one who kidnapped and killed the victim.
“We got a complaint from Stephen Oluwoyo that his daughter was missing and he could not reach her.
“The father further said he received a text message from an unknown number that his daughter had been kidnapped and the kidnapper demanded a ransom,” he said.
Operatives, according to the PPRO, acted promptly on actionable intelligence and with the assistance of the Force Headquarters’ Technical Intelligence Unit, TIU, tracked down and arrested one Suspect Paul Awe on 11th September in connection with the incident.
Ovye-Aya explained that immediately after the arrest of Paul-Awe on September 11, he accompanied the team of agents to the scene, where the corpse was recovered, moved, and deposited at the Federal Teaching Hospital Lokoja mortuary for examination.
He said further investigation led to the arrest of the three remaining suspects.
The picture maker quoted the prime suspect to have confessed that two out of the three suspects were his friends who helped him commit the crime.
Ovye-Aya said that the four accused persons would be taken to court after the police had wrapped up their investigations.
