Operatives of the Kogi State Police Command have arrested four persons in connection to the alleged murder of a female student of the Federal University, Lokoja, the state capital
The victim, a 17-year-old 100-level student of biology department, was allegedly kidnapped and killed by a 21-year-old man.
The command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Williams Ovye-Aya, made this disclosure while addressing newsmen in Lokoja, saying that the main suspect, allegedly conspired with three of his friends, to commit the crime.
“The Operatives of the Nigeria Police Force, attached to the State Intelligence Department (SID), Kogi Command, on Sept. 11 arrested one Jeremiah Paul-Awe of Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State
“Paul-Awe was the one responsible for the kidnapping and killing of the victim.
”We received a complaint from one Stephen Oluwoyo that his daughter was missing and that he couldn’t reach her.
“The father further stated that he received a message from an unknown number that his daughter had been abducted and the abductor demanded for a ransom,” he said.
According to the state police image-maker, operatives promptly swung into action through an actionable intelligence with the assistance of the Technical Intelligence Unit (TIU) from the Force Headquarters, trailed and arrested the suspect, Paul Awe on September 11 in Connection with the crime.
Ovye-Aya said that following Paul-Awe’s arrest on Sept. 11, he led the team of operatives to the scene where the corpse was recovered, evacuated and deposited at the Federal Teaching Hospital Lokoja mortuary for autopsy.
He said that further investigation led to the arrest of the three other suspects.
The image maker, who said the prime suspect disclosed that two of the three suspects were his friends, who aided him in committing the crime, added that the four suspects would be arraigned in court on completion of the police investigation.
