Detectives from the homicide department of the Delta State
Police Command are now investigating the gruesome murder of a 27-year old
graduate, Miss Ifeanyi Uti, who was allegedly killed by her lover, one
Valentine Ala, who is now on the run.
The suspect allegedly
lured his lover from her family house in Asaba, Delta State, to far away
Minna, the Niger State capital, where he allegedly murdered her in a hotel
room.
Although, a case of
ritual killing was suspected on account of the mutilation of one of the eyes,
autopsy reports, however, indicated that no part of the body was removed.
The incident took place
on January 28 but the family did not get to know until February 6, when the
alleged murderer confessed through a text message that he killed her.
Ifeanyi was buried last
month, the tears of her mother, Mrs. Patience Uti, have not ceased to flow, as
she has been finding the loss of the last of her four children, unbearable. In
great grief, she pleads with security operatives to smoke out Valentine from
his hiding place.
Late Ifeanyi, a fresh graduate of Chemistry
from Ambrose Ali University, Ekpoma, Edo State, was said to have met Valentine
in July last year and a romantic relationship blossomed between them. But it
was relationship built on lies, and it appeared Ify, as she was fondly called
by her siblings, was too naive to read between the lines until the unexpected
happened.
Sunday Sun learnt that her family
members had warned her to quit the relationship because of Valentine’s
suspicious character but he succeeded in bamboozling and regaling her with
tales of his undying love for her.
He was said to have
told Ify that he was a gallant officer of the Department of State Service
(DSS), who had burst several criminal syndicates particularly those engaged in
kidnapping in Delta State. To convince his unsuspecting lover, Valentine acted
a scene where he called while pretending to be on the trail of kidnappers who
abducted a woman in Warri.
Although, Ifeanyi’s
family demonstrated cold feet towards him, he never relented as he continued to
plot how to elope with the girl, to carry out his evil intention.
His first failed plot,
was when he wanted to take her to Port Harcourt where he claimed that his
father had secured a plum job for him in an oil company on the ground that he
was simply fed up with the security job.
But the family
resisted, and he later left Asaba in November last year and never came back
till January, this year. While he was away, according to Ifeanyi’s elder
sister, Awele, he was always in contact with the deceased, apparently to keep
the flames of love burning while he perfected his plot.
Awele said the family had already petitioned the Delta State
Commissioner of Police over the incident, adding that the homicide department
of the command in Asaba was handling the investigation.
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