The Police in Imo
State, recently,rounded up the brain behind the death of a 12-year-old girl,
Ifunanya Favour Iberi who was declared wanted two months ago by arresting a
34-year-old man identified as Samuel Chukwunyere. Police alleged
that the suspect was responsible for raping the teenager to death and dumping
her lifeless body in a deep well.
The
missing little Ifunanya was last seen by members of her family on Sunday,
October 13, 2013, when she could not return to their house after her day’s
routine activities. Apparently worried by the scaring development, her
parents immediately alerted the Imo State Police Command. Their passionate
appeal to the Commissioner of Police, Katsina was very simple. “You must
please, assist us find our missing daughter.”
Search
for suspects
Seeing
the depth of grief boldly written on the faces of Ifunanya’s parents, the Imo
State police boss assured them of his determination to get to the root of the
matter.
Katsina
mobilized his men and went after the fleeing criminal. Not long after, a
34-year old artisan from Amaenyi, Nkwerre, Chukwunyere, who lives at Umulolo
village, where the missing girl hailed from, was apprehended. This man quickly
fled the community when he noticed that he was being linked with the sudden
disappearance of little Ifunanya. The suspect was rounded up few days ago
by the police when he quietly returned to the village.
Confession
of suspect
In
an interview with Crime Alert, the suspect confessed that he actually lured the
innocent victim to his house and raped her to death. He also disclosed that he
lured the girl to his place because he told her that he bought her a phone,
adding as soon as they got to his house and on noticing that the place was
lonely, he quickly grabbed the young girl.
His
words: “I forced her. I tried to use her through her private part but my own
thing could not enter. I now turned her and she started shouting. I now held
her well, well. I don’t want anybody to hear her voice. I now started using her
through her anus. In the process of using her through the anus, she now shouted
and I now held her back again, using her. In the process of using her, she now
gave up.”
The
suspect also explained how he dumped the remains of his young victim inside a
deep pit near his residence to avoid being traced by anybody. “I now asked
myself how will I manage to hide the corpse of this girl. I now rock my brain
and rock my brain and the shovel that I have there cannot dig the ground. This
ground sef na stone ground. I cannot dig it alone. I now searched around my
place here and I saw that pit there (pointing to the location of the pit) and I
now say let me come and put her inside that pit, so that the place will be
enough to hide it. Nobody will know. I now rolled her with some cloths. After12
to one o’clockin the midnight, I now brought her to this place and now throw
her inside the pit.”
He
also confessed that this was not his first rape case, especially as Crime Alert
gathered that several girls in the area had previously fallen victim to his nefarious
act.
The
State Police boss later took Crime Alert to the scene of crime where the skull
of the little girl which was already severed from her body and other
decomposing parts believed to be her remains were lifted from the pit,
which contained greenish water.
Police boss speaks
Speaking
to Crime Alert at the scene of the crime, the State Police boss explained that
after committing the alleged sordid crime, the suspect threw the lifeless body
of the young girl into a nearby well and vowed to bring him to book.
“His
arrest and subsequent interrogation encouraged detectives to move to this place
where this very horrendous spectacle was again discovered. It is a clear case
of sunset at dawn. She may have gone but her soul is seriously crying for
justice and this is what I will surely do,” Katsina promised.
Continuing,
the Imo police boss said that apart from this sordid incident, investigations
also revealed that “this very suspect is a serial killer, serial rapist and is
responsible for the missing and death of many of our young girls, not only in
Imo State but in some parts of the country.”
While
describing the suspect as “an unrepentant killer”, the CP also said that “the
man has been involved in many reported cases of ritual-related murders since
2004 till the time he was arrested. Investigations into the matter
is on-going to unmask all those behind the dastardly act. I am hoping
that pathologists will equally ascertain the real cause of the death of the
innocent girl.”
How suspect was
arrested
He
recalled that the police had painstakingly been on his trail for about two
months since little Ifunanya was reported missing by her parents. Giving
a graphic account of how the suspect was eventually apprehended, the CP
explained that soon after the girl was reported missing, the suspect quietly
escaped to Aba, Abia State.
“He
later sneaked into Nkwerre when he thought that the search for the missing girl
had died down. He was, however, wrong because the Ambush Squad of the Command
quickly arrested him on getting wind of his return to base.
It
is sad to note how people can be very heartless. On noticing that the innocent
girl had died in the process of raping her, the suspect carefully but
shamelessly threw her remains into a nearby pit.”
Culled from VANGUARD.
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