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
with Crime Alert, 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 lonely, 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’clockin 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.
Police boss speaks
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.”
How suspect was arrested
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.”
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