
As early as 8:00am family members, friends and
sympathisers including the governor of Delta State, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, and
his wife, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, civil commissioners, top government
functionaries, traditional rulers and chiefs had trooped into the compound of
the Osokogus to witness the burial of the late Cynthia at Boji Boji Owa, Ika
North-East Local Government Area of Delta State.
Commiserating with the Osokogu’s family, Governor
Uduaghan enjoined them to put the death of their daughter behind them and never
allow the painful circumstances to weigh them down.
“We are here because of the tragic situation in the
sense that we have lost our daughter in circumstances strange to us. Cynthia
died in the hands of deadly criminals. She was a promising young girl,
intelligent and smart but what happened to Cynthia is what anybody can be a
victim of.”
He added that the socio media, expected to advance the
world and the society, had been turned by some people to perpetrate criminality
and evil. Meanwhile the ceremony which was expected to be the burial of late
Cynthia occurred without her corpse.
Her father, General Osokogu, explained that the family
was shocked when the news came from the medical team and the police that her
body would not be released for burial. The reason given, according to her
father, was that some medical checks had not been carried out on the body and
that it would be released for burial as soon as those were done.
Senator Okowa, HRM Obi Efezimor, Obi of Owa kingdom
condemned the killing of Cynthia describing it as painful. They also heaped
curses on her killers saying they (her killers) had murdered sleep and would
never know progress and development in their entire lives. According to the
duo, the socio media before now used to be pen pals.
The duo, however, regretted that with the advent of the
new thread in technology, things had changed with some people using it to
commit crime and evil.
They added that the socio media had become too
notorious for spreading false information and maligning personalities. “The
youths should be cautious of what they do on the socio media and should not
trust everybody they meet there,” they enjoined.
In a sermon during the requiem mass of Late Cynthia at
the St Dominics Catholic Church, Boji Boji Owa, Agbor, the officiating priest,
Rev Fr. Leonard Biachi, blamed the society for the death of Cynthia adding
that, “the kind of society we found ourselves is a horrible one. It is not okay
with our society that a beautiful, intelligent and promising young girl would
be drugged and murdered just like that.”
The priest, however, noted that facebook used to be a
decent enterprise but it had been turned to where all kind of evils and crimes
are being perpetrated by some. He described the killers of Cynthia as cowards
who could not woo any lady even the deceased face to face but hid under the
guise of facebook to carry out their immorality.
The priest stressed that everyone has the
responsibility to build the society and that the death of Cynthia should not
stop the usage of Facebook but must not be used for evil and other social
vices.