One of the suspects, Endurance Akpan, 18, from Idio Nung Iba village, in Etim Ekpo Local Government Area, was said to have killed his mother, Mrs. Lovina Akpan.
Endurance was said to have arrived his village from Port Harcourt, Rivers State, where he was living with his father.
Upon arrival, Endurance, who is the last child of eight children, went straight to his mother’s room and tricked the woman out of her apartment.
The State Police Public Relations Officer, Cordelia Nwawe, ASP, said the young man had told his mother he had something important to discuss with her.
“As they got to another room where Endurance had tricked her into, he (Endurance) tied his mother’s hands to her neck with a wrapper and strangulated her to death.
“After she died, he pulled her out of the room and took her close to a pit toilet within the compound and dumped her there in the morning of November 25 and thereafter left for Port Harcourt, where he was arrested,” Nwawe said.
Among the murder suspects the command paraded is Mr. Gideon Idio, a pastor of God’s Power City, from Nkwa in Ibiono LGA, residing at 14 Fineface Street, Off Enen Afaha, Uyo. He was said to have called the deceased and church member, Mrs. Joanna Okon of 62 Udotung Ubo Street, to come over to his office.
Explaining the incicdent, the PPRO said on arrival, Idio and Okon engaged in a scuffle over an unidentified reason. She added that the issue degenerated to a point that the suspect attacked the deceased and she collapsed and died inside his office.
She said, “The so-called pastor locked the deceased inside his office and used the deceased phone to call her close relation claiming, to be a tricycle who picked up the girl from Udotung Ubo Street enroute Itam and that she slumped inside the tricycle and she is taking her to an undisclosed hospital.
“As if that was not enough, the suspect later at about 1900 hours, informed the relations of the girl that he saw the corpse of the deceased at IBB Road, Uyo and has moved the corpse to his office, after which the suspect and relations of the deceased conveyed the corpse to a mortuary at Ibiono Ibom.”
Another murder suspect, Anietie Obong, was said to have taken custody of the deceased, Happiness Isaiah, with the hope that the suspect would send the deceased to a secondary school.
Nwawe stated that sometime in December 2015, the suspect’s wife lost her three months pregnancy and the suspect was unhappy about the incident.
The state police spokesman explained that when the deceased had served the suspect and his wife dinner, the suspect summoned the deceased to his palour, started beating her, a development that resulted in lacerations to her leg, hand, stomach and the back.
She said, “The suspect further poured hot water on the deceased’s thoracic cavity and the back. These antics on the deceased, who was only 16 years, caused her death.”
One of the suspects, Endurance, confessed to killing his mother.
He said, “I killed her because she tried to poison me and not to let me understand myself any more. She did not want me to go to my father’s side and start school. She wanted me to stay with her at home and go to farm with her. She tried to give me something from the bucket for me to drink so that I would lose my memory. I used wrapper to tie her legs; she was not sleeping. She was lying down when I killed her.”
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