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| Late Cynthia Osokogu And Her Mum |
Since Cynthia was murdered, her parents General Frank Osokogu & his wife Mrs Joy Osokogu have kept silent on the issue. Mrs Osokogu recently broke her silence to Guardian newspaper when they visited the family home in ECWA Staff Quarters home in Farin Gada on Zaria Road, Jos North Local Council of Plateau State.
Read her statement;
On July 22, my daughter Cynthia called me and said that she had arrived Lagos. She was a student of Nasarawa State University in Keffi. She owned a boutique, which she opened when she was a third year undergraduate. They usually brought her goods imported from the United States, but that fateful July 22, she told me that they were bringing her goods from England.
She said this time; she wanted to buy English goods to add to her other goods. She told me that since school would be resuming the next day, she would take the next flight to Jos to see me. As she did not arrive as she promised and we did not hear from her, we raised alarm and declared her missing. Then on Monday, August 20, they said we should come to Lagos and that they cannot disclose anything unless we come. It was when my son got to Lagos and they took him to the mortuary that they saw her corpse. I don’t know anything that happened again after that.
Mrs. Osokogu said the suspects in Cynthia’s death told her daughter when they received her at the airport at the Lagos that her goods were in the hotel room and that they wanted to show her there.
“When they got there, they strangled her to death, tied her mouth and everything. That was all”, she wailed.
Learn From My Daughter’s Mistake, Cynthia’s Father Tells Youths:
MAJ. Gen. Frank Osokogu, father of Cynthia, the young lady who was murdered in Lagos by her Facebook friends, has admonished all youths to beware of trusting total strangers they meet only on Facebook and other social media. If other youths are saved through this warning, he said, it would lighten his deep sorrow over the loss of his only daughter.
Osokogu who spoke in an interview with journalists in Jos, said it was Cynthia’s friends in Abuja, whom she had visited en route Lagos, who first notified him that she had not returned from her trip, days after she was due back.
See full interview below:
How did it all begin sir?
My daughter was in Nasarawa State University, Keffi, doing her Masters programme. She stayed there. I stay in Abuja and Jos, while my wife stays in Jos. So, we are not together.
