Grief is spreading through some parts of Nnewi Local Government of Anambra State, following the murder of a young lady, Chinasa Sophia, a graduate of the Institute of the Institute of Management Technology (IMT) Enugu.
Her body was found inside a drainage at Adikpi village, along Osumenyi/Akwuihedi road, Osumenyi in Nnewi South Local Government Area of the State, gagged, while her legs were chained.
Here is how the Spokesperson of the State Police Command, Haruna Mohammed, confirmed the incident on Wednesday, November 11:
“On the 10/11/2020 at about 12 pm, there was a report by a good Samaritan from Osumenyi in Nnewi South LGA that a girl whose name and address is yet to be ascertained, aged about 22years was seen lying lifeless inside a gutter along Osumenyi/Akwuihedi road Osumenyi with mark of violence on her neck, mouth was sealed with tape while her legs and hands were tied with rope,” he said.
“Scene was visited by Police operatives attached to Nnewi Area Command and victim was rushed to Visitation Hospital Osumenyi where she was confirmed dead by the doctor on duty. Corpse was photographed and deposited at the same hospital morgue for autopsy and effort being intensified to ascertain circumstances surrounding the incident in order to apprehend perpetrators and bring them to book.”
Relatives and friends of the deceased, including former classmates, have been mourning her.
One of such, David Azubike Chikwunyelum who knew the victim, noted that she was a salesgirl.
David stated (sic):
“Some time on Sunday evening or Monday this week i came across this post (Only the victim as her lifeless body lays on the drainage), I by passed it, reason I can’t Identify the face, secondly I don’t have come to believe that some whom i know will be a such victim, it never occurred in my mind. Today as I arrive for normal business my neighbors greeted that a lady was killed in Nnewi by unknown people and dump in the gutter and was in Facebook , I remembered I came across such! I ask for her identity , oh my God it’s Chinasa, she is a sales girl, I use to buy from her Bullet energy drink, Pure Heaven fruit juice and Vitasoy soya drink. May her soul rest in peace.”
