The Enugu State Police Command has arrested and prosecuted 22-year-old suspect, Chidubem Osuagwu, for allegedly murdering and stealing the car of his “sugar mummy” (older lover), one 32-year-old Amarachi Chukwu.
The spokesperson for the command, Mr Daniel
Ndukwe, disclosed this in a statement made available to the News Agency of
Nigeria in Enugu on Friday.
Ndukwe said those police detectives serving
in the homicide section of the State Criminal Investigation Department, Enugu,
working with police operatives in Imo Command, on November 8 arrested Osuagwu
within Nekede axis of Owerri in Imo.
According to him, he was attempting to sell
a Toyota Corolla car he stole from his older female lover, Chukwu, after
murdering her on Nov. 1 in her residence at Meniru, Awkunanaw within the Enugu
metropolis.
“Investigation revealed that the suspect
and his cohort at large, had in the morning hours of the mentioned date,
conspired and went to the house of the victim, attempted to make away with her
Toyota Corolla key, which she resisted.
“And upon her resistance, they tied her
hands, legs and mouth with clothes; locked her inside the house and made away
with the car.
“Her decomposing remains were, however,
found in the said apartment on November 4, after the door was forced open by
police operatives serving in Ikirike Police Division of the Command, following
receipt of a report that an offensive odour was oozing out of the apartment.
“The police operatives evacuated the
remains to the hospital, where doctors confirmed her dead and the corpse
deposited in the mortuary for preservation and autopsy,” he said.
The police spokesman said that the suspect
had been arraigned in court upon conclusion of the investigation and had been
remanded in Enugu Custodial Centre pending further hearing of the case.