How We Killed Cynthia Osokogu...Suspects Narrate (Video Included)

Suspects covering their faces in shame

 

 

The  Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Umar Manko, gave the names of the suspects as Okwuoma Echezona Nwabufo, 33 and his maternal cousin Odera Ezekiel Ilechukwu, 23.

 

They were paraded by the police exactly one month after Miss Cynthia Udoka Osokogu was killed in a hotel room in Festac, Lagos. They were presented to journalists at the Command Headquarters, Ikeja.

While Okwuoma claims he is a 300 level Accounting student at the University of Lagos, Ezekiel also studies Accountancy at the Anambra State University.

 

According to Manko, Lagos Commissioner of Police, on July 22 this year:

- Cynthia Osokogu used her Blackberry phone to chat with Okwumo, who invited her to Lagos to spend time with him in his residence in Festac.
- Cynthia then came to Lagos, with Okwumo paying for her flight to Lagos.
- She was lodged in a hotel in Festac Town.
- It was gathered that the two suspects then connived to drug Cynthia with powdery tablets - Rohypnol grounded and injected into a Ribena drink, which she drank and became unconscious.
- The suspects then took turn to rape her more than 10 times.
- They then used a cellotape to tie her mouth and a chain to tie her legs.
-The suspects allegedly suffocated her to death when she regained consciousness and started struggling with them.

In their confession, the suspects blamed the devil for the crime:
Okwuoma, who said Cynthia was his friend, admitted that they drugged the deceased by injecting 10 Rohypnol tablets into three packets of Ribena drink they offered her.

The suspect claimed that he invited the deceased from Abuja to Lagos.

According to him, their mission was to rob her of her possessions, while the drug was to make her weak and lose memory of everything that transpired.

“Cynthia was my friend, we met through blackberry group chat and we had mutual understanding before she came to Lagos on Sunday, July 21.

“The deceased was coming to buy stocks for her boutique in Abuja, so I thought that maybe she would have enough money with her and we planned to collect her belongings,” Okwuoma said.

The suspect said the deceased was killed at Concilia hotel, not far from his residence at Sixth Avenue, Festac.

The suspect narrated how they tied Cynthia with celotape and chain, adding that when she struggled with them, he held her forcefully to make sure she did not shout.

“I invited her and in the process, we had disagreement so, I felt like robbing her of all she has".

 

One of the suspects, Eloka, said they killed Cynthia because they thought she had a lot of money in her possession. But after the horrific act, they did not find a reasonable amount of money on her.


When asked if he raped Cynthia and why there was condom in the hotel room, the suspect said he did not rape her, claiming the condom was used for something else.

“I used it on her based on the vibrator she had. She came with a vibrator and so I inserted the condom on it and later dropped it there. I did not sleep with her, if the police carryout a forensic test on it, they will see that I didn’t use it on her,” he said.

Okwuoma confessed that the deceased was the fifth person he has drugged and stated that other victims did not die.

“I have done it four times before her but none of the girls died. I sleep with them and after they take the drink, they will loss memory of everything that happened to them".

“I am not happy about what happened because I didn’t bargain to kill her. It is unfortunate and the work of the devil,” Okwuoma said.

 

Manko warned youths, especially ladies, to be wary of fraudsters who use social media to lure and commit crime.

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