*Development puts paid to neighbor’s earlier report that she was spotted in lover’s residence
BY MIKE OSAROGIAGBON
Edo State Police Command has revealed a devastating twist in its investigation into the disappearance of a 200-level Delta Varsity student, Faith Omodon, 19, saying she has been murdered and not spotted in her lover’s residence as findings earlier indicated.
Faith Omodon
At the initial stage of police search, a lady who identified herself as a neighbour to Faith’s boyfriend in Agbor, Delta State told investigators that “Faith came to our compound in Agbor when the boyfriend was not in. She said the boy told her to come and check something in the compound, after some time she left. I didn’t know that they were looking for her in Edo”.
The command Public Relations Officer SP Chidi Nwabuzor had simply responded then, that “we thank God that so far there are indications that she is alive.”
The Commissioner of police, Edo State CP Funsho Adegboye on Wednesday unfolded a saddening twist in the search when he paraded two suspects Godspower Chukwuedo, 23 and Christopher Nwachukwu, 22 alleged to have gruesomely murdered the undergraduate.
The police boss further explained that investigators are now working on how and where to recover her corpse
CP Adegboye also paraded one Chukwuyem Jonah, 26 a native doctor said to have sent the two suspects to kidnap Faith Omodon for ransom.
They were paraded along with 11 others at the state police Command headquarters in Benin City.
“The suspects made statements to the Police and confessed that they were sent by one Chukwuyem Jonah, 26 years a native doctor who lives in Iru community, near Abudu, Edo State to go after Faith Omodon in the farm and kidnap her to enable them collect ransom from her rich father, with the promise of paying them #30,000.00.
“After a preliminary investigation was conducted by the Abudu Division, the case was transferred to State CID, Benin.
“The State CID operatives while collaborating with the Vigilantes group, arrested two suspects, Godspower Chukwuedo, 23 years and Christopher Nwachukwu, 22 years.
“The suspects further confessed that they were resisted by Faith Omodon and in the process, they strangulated her to death”, CP Funsho Adegboye narrated.
CP Adegboye added that the confessional statements of the two suspects led to the arrest of the native doctor at Iru community, on May 7, 2024.
Speaking with journalists, Godspower Chukwuedo and Christopher Nwachukwu, admitted the crime.
The duo who said they didn’t know the girl before, as it was the native doctor who took them to the farm after assuring them that she would come home during Easter period.
Christopher Nwachukwu who claimed to be a farmer based in Agbor, disclosed that he was contracted by Godspower Chukwuedo, a bricklayer based in Benin City for the job.
Godspower Chukwuedo confessed that after strangling their victim, they left her unconscious with the native doctor in the farm, but made away with her mobile phone and the motorcycle.
On his part, the ‘native doctor’, Chukwuyem Jonah, denied knowing the other suspects let alone having anything to do with the attempted kidnap and murder of Faith Omodon.
Edward Omodon, father of the deceased, described the killing as unfortunate. He said he knew the native doctor very well, as they live together in the same locality.
“I want justice. I want them to pay for the killing of my daughter. I don’t want my daughter to die like that without any action from the government”, he appealed.
Meanwhile, CP Adegboye has cautioned parents to always be weary of where they send their wards and children to.
