The Edo Commissioner of Police, Mr Johnson Kokumo, on Wednesday paraded six suspects who allegedly raped a 100-Level Microbiology student of University of Benin (UNIBEN), Miss Uwaila Omozuwa.
The 22 – year- old student was raped and killed in a church in Ihovbe quarters in Benin City.
She was said to have gone to the church to read when the suspects went into the church, raped and inflicted injury on her that eventually led to her death days later in the hospital.
The paraded suspects were Nelson Ogbebor, Akato Valentine, Mrs Tina Samuel, Mrs Mary Ade, Nosa Osabohien and Collins Ulegbe.
Kokumo said the police decided to intensify their efforts in unraveling those behind the death of the student following the wide outcry that it generated.
Also, the interest put in by the Inspector General of Police.
“The matter was a great concern to the Inspector General of Police, IGP, Muhammed Adamu who sent to Benin, Homicide experts to work with our policemen at the state’s criminal investigation.
“What we are seeing today, is a result of the uniting efforts of the police to get to the root of the crime.
” Today, I announce to you and making public through this medium, that the perpetrators have been arrested”, he said.
The Commissioner said that the postmortem results confirmed that the said Uwaila was raped.
“The postmortem results had actually confirmed that that she was raped,” he said.
He said he had earlier told the people of the state and Nigeria at large that the police would do all in their powers to unmask those behind her death.
“I assured the good people of Edo state that we will leave no stone unturned to unravel the mystery behind this,” he said.
