Benin: Why Uwa Was Raped, Killed – Police; Landlady Paid Me- Suspect |The Source

By Akinwale Kasali

Few months after, 21- Year Old 100-level Undergraduate of University of Benin, UNIBEN, Miss Uwaila Omozua was attacked, raped and killed with a fire extinguisher cylinder at  the Church Auditorium of The Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Edo Province 10, Ikpoba Hill, Benin, the Police has cracked the case.

Uwa was murdered in a most gruesome manner on Wednesday, May 27, 2020 where she had gone to read.

Her death generated a lot of uproar, with Human Rights Group across the country, demanding Justice for the deceased.

On Wednesday, the Edo State Commissioner of Police, Johnson Kokumo, paraded six persons suspected to be involved in the murder of Uwaila.

One of the suspects Collins Uligbe, from Agbor in Ika North East Local Government Area of Delta State, disclosed while being paraded that his landlady, Mrs Mary Ade, gave them one million Naira,  to kill the undergraduate.

Collins who said he attends the same church the student attended, said that he was asked by the landlady to wipe Uwaila’s private part with an handkerchief so that she could use it for ritual purposes and prosper in her business.

However, the landlady denied the allegation, saying she neither gave him the money nor asked him to wipe the lady’s private part.

Commissioner Kokumo gave the names of the other suspected killers as Nelson Ogbebor, Tina Samuel, Valentine Akato and Nosa Osabohien.

According to him, the postmortem results confirmed that the said victim was raped before she was murdered.

He assured the people of Edo State that the police will leave no stone unturned to unravel the mystery behind the killing.