Mr. and Mrs. Chukwunonso Chinyere Nwoye of Ihuokpala Village, Abba Town, in Dunukofia Council Area of Anambra State, have begged Governor Willie Obiano and the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Mohammed Abubakar, to arrest and prosecute those behind the gruesome murder of their daughter, Miss Chinenye Promise Nwoye, aged 19.
Promise Nwoye, an Education and Religious Studies undergraduate of the University of Benin, was murdered inside a hotel, “Akuu Hotel, located at the boundary between Eziowelle and Abagana, a short distance to the popular Oye- Agu Market Abagana.
Mrs. Chinyere Nwoye, the mother of the deceased, said her daughter Promise, was lured out from Oye-agu market area where she was undergoing computer lesson to the said hotel and wickedly strangled to death.
She narrated that before she died she had called her to tell her to quickly bring her ATM Card, saying quickly, that she was at Akuu hotel.
She narrated further that she quickly chartered a motorcycle together with a Christian brother to the hotel while crying hysterically.
The woman said that when she arrived, it was the noise she made and crying, that made the hotel management listen to her, then went upstairs to one of the rooms and discovered the strangled body of her daughter.
The manager of the hotel, Mr. Philip, a Tiv, confirmed the woman’s story and told newsmen that the hotel security succeeded in arresting one of the suspects and has handed him over to the Police.
