Lagos State Police Command is currently
investigating the circumstances surrounding
the kidnap and murder of a 20-year-old
undergraduate, identified as John Chinedu
Okere.
Until his death, Chinedu was a 300 level
Electrical Engineering student at Covenant
University, Otta in Ogun State.
Chinedu had left his parent’s house in the
morning of Wednesday, August 6, 2014, to a
Hospital in Yaba, Lagos for medical reasons
and that was the last time he was seen alive.
According to Vanguard report, the victim’s
father, Jude Okere, received an SMS notifying
him that Chinedu had been kidnapped and he
later got a call from a hidden number who
demanded N10 million ransom for the
release of his son or he would be killed. They
reported the case to the Divisional Police
Station at Sabo, Yaba and it was later
transferred to the Special Anti-Robbery
Squad, SARS, Ikeja the next day where
investigations commenced.
Unfortunately, two days later, his
decomposing corpse was discovered in one of
the rooms at ‘DE Homes Hotel’ located in
Ejigbo by one of their staff.
It was gathered from some family members
that one of the friends of the deceased had
called on phone earlier that morning to tell
him to meet him at a hotel.
A reliable source in the hotel said on that
fateful day, the prime suspect, Okorocha
Michael along with another young man simply
identified as Okey, checked into the hotel
with the name Christian, claiming to be a
youth corps member who wanted to write
exams and would be there from that
Wednesday to Friday and that he was
expecting his cousin to join him in the hotel.
“As soon as Chinedu arrived the hotel,
Michael took him to the room. We don’t
know what happened inside the room.
However, it was later gathered that during
their stay in the room, the suspect reportedly
confronted the victim on some personal
issues. The confrontation eventually led to a
heated argument, which later led to the
suspect strangulating the victim to death,”
the source said.
The prime suspect, 24-year-old Okorocha
Michael, a graduate of Lagos City Polytechnic,
Ikeja, was later arrested in a friend’s house
around Ajah area in Lagos.
The family is praying that justice prevails and
the killers are brought to book.
Source: 9ja olofofo
