
The
Police in Imo State, recently, rounded up the brain behind the death of
a 12-year-old girl, Ifunanya Favour Iberi who was declared wanted two
months ago by arresting a 34-year-old man identified as Samuel
Chukwunyere.
Police alleged that the suspect was responsible for raping the teenager to death and dumping her lifeless body in a deep well.
The missing little Ifunanya was last
seen by members of her family on Sunday, October 13, 2013, when she
could not return to their house after her day’s routine activities.
Apparently worried by the scaring development, her parents immediately
alerted the Imo State Police Command. Their passionate appeal to the
Commissioner of Police, Katsina was very simple. “You must please, assist us find our missing daughter.”
Search for suspects
Seeing the depth of grief boldly
written on the faces of Ifunanya’s parents, the Imo State police boss
assured them of his determination to get to the root of the matter.
Katsina mobilized his men and went
after the fleeing criminal. Not long after, a 34-year old artisan from
Amaenyi, Nkwerre, Chukwunyere, who lives at Umulolo village, where the
missing girl hailed from, was apprehended. This man quickly fled the
community when he noticed that he was being linked with the sudden
disappearance of little Ifunanya. The suspect was rounded up few days
ago by the police when he quietly returned to the village.

Confession of suspect
In
an interview, the suspect confessed that he actually lured the innocent
victim to his house and raped her to death. He also disclosed that he
lured the girl to his place because he told her that he bought her a
phone, adding as soon as they got to his house and on noticing that the
place was deserted, he quickly grabbed the young girl.
His words: “I
forced her. I tried to use her through her private part but my own
thing could not enter. I now turned her and she started shouting. I now
held her well, well. I don’t want anybody to hear her voice. I now
started using her through her anus. In the process of using her through
the anus, she now shouted and I now held her back again, using her. In
the process of using her, she now gave up.”
The
suspect also explained how he dumped the remains of his young victim
inside a deep pit near his residence to avoid being traced by anybody. “I
now asked myself how will I manage to hide the corpse of this girl. I
now rock my brain and rock my brain and the shovel that I have there
cannot dig the ground. This ground sef na stone ground. I cannot dig it
alone. I now searched around my place here and I saw that pit there
(pointing to the location of the pit) and I now say let me come and put
her inside that pit, so that the place will be enough to hide it. Nobody
will know. I now rolled her with some cloths. After12 to one o’clock in
the midnight, I now brought her to this place and now throw her inside
the pit.”
He
also confessed that this was not his first rape case, especially as
Crime Alert gathered that several girls in the area had previously
fallen victim to his nefarious act.
The State Police boss later took Crime
Alert to the scene of crime where the skull of the little girl which was
already severed from her body and other decomposing parts believed to
be her remains were lifted from the pit, which contained greenish
water.
Speaking to Crime Alert at the scene of
the crime, the State Police boss explained that after committing the
alleged sordid crime, the suspect threw the lifeless body of the young
girl into a nearby well and vowed to bring him to book.
“His arrest and subsequent
interrogation encouraged detectives to move to this place where this
very horrendous spectacle was again discovered. It is a clear case of
sunset at dawn. She may have gone but her soul is seriously crying for
justice and this is what I will surely do,” Katsina promised.
Continuing, the Imo police boss said that apart from this sordid incident, investigations also revealed that “this
very suspect is a serial killer, serial rapist and is responsible for
the missing and death of many of our young girls, not only in Imo State
but in some parts of the country.”
While describing the suspect as “an unrepentant killer”, the CP also said that “the
man has been involved in many reported cases of ritual-related murders
since 2004 till the time he was arrested. Investigations into the
matter is on-going to unmask all those behind the dastardly act. I am
hoping that pathologists will equally ascertain the real cause of the
death of the innocent girl.”
He recalled that the police had
painstakingly been on his trail for about two months since little
Ifunanya was reported missing by her parents. Giving a graphic account
of how the suspect was eventually apprehended, the CP explained that
soon after the girl was reported missing, the suspect quietly escaped to
Aba, Abia State.
“He later sneaked into Nkwerre when he thought that the search for the missing girl had died down. He was, however, wrong because the Ambush Squad of the Command quickly arrested him on getting wind of his return to base.
It is sad to note how people can be
very heartless. On noticing that the innocent girl had died in the
process of raping her, the suspect carefully but shamelessly threw her
remains into a nearby pit.”
Source: Vanguard
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