Tuesday, 4 September 2012
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Police recovers Cynthia Osokogu's blackberry phone from business man arrest phone seller,driver
By Patience Ogbo
The saga over the gruesome death of Cynthia Osokogu has continued with the arrest of two other prime suspects .
The police also recovered Cynthia's white Blackberry Bold 5 99100 from a business man in Port Harcourt who allegedly bought the stolen phone from her killers.
The police identified the suspects as Nonso Ezike a younger brother of Chidera Ezike one of the suspects paraded and arraigned by the police over Cynthia's death.
Nonso is a graduate of Mathematics and Computer Science from the Federal University of Technology Owerri.
Nonso is also said to be a second hand hand phone dealer at Ladipo Market who is the receiver and onward seller of all the phones stolen by the internet fraudsters.
After his arrest Nonso said he sold Cynthia's phone for N68,000 after he bought it from his bother Chidera for N42,000 naira.
"Chidera is my blood bother. I am a dealer in London used second phones. It was Chidera who sold the phone to me. He said the phone belongs to our cousin Okwumo. I later sold the phone to a man in Port Harcourt for N68,000 "Nonso said in a statement to the police.
The other suspects was identified by the police as Gideon Okechukwu a driver for the gang.
The suspects were arrested by policemen attached to the Area E police command in Festac Town led by the Area Commander an Assistant Commissioner of Police Dan Okoro.
ACP Okoro said electronic policing led to the arrest of the suspect.
Confirming the arrest of the suspects. Confirming the arrest,the Lagos State Commissioner of police Umar Manko said "In continuation of our investigation, we arrested two men and recovered Cynthia's blackberry phone.Investigation is still ungoing to arrest others"
Narrating how the police arrested the suspects ACP Dan Okoro said "during the Investigation, I told late Cynthia's father to give me the pin of her blackberry phone. I got the pin and started chatting with the number. During the course of our chatting, I got to know that the person with the phone is at Port harcourt. I told him I need the phone and he told me he bought it from Lagos and the phone was sent to him via courier and he was willing to return it to the person who sold it to him. He said he would like to get his money for the phone back and I told him there is no problem.
Continuing ACP Okoro stated that the phone was returned to Nonso who later brought it to the police station in company of his lawyer.
On September 3rd, two men came to my office with a white Bold 5 99100 backberry phone. Immediately I told my men to detain them and they were interrogated so that was how we got to know that Nonso is a brother of one of the suspects Chidera Ezike that we arraigned".
The police also arrested Gideon 39 years old said to be the driver of the suspects.
The police alleged that Gideon Okechukwu was also arrested through intelligence policing.
CP Manko said "Okechukwu is believed to be the man who conveys the suspects to all their destinations. He is helping us with our investigation.
The police also recovered a black Compaq 610 laptop belonging to Echezona Nwabufor Okwuomo,one of the suspects arraigned. The laptop is said to contain over fifty nude photographs of female victims who have fallen prey to the internet sex ring.
Some of the photographs show pretty ladies tied with rope and their mouths covered with cellotape with dangerous objects inserted in their vigina.
Cynthia's naked photographs also shown bites and wound inflicted all over her body.
Some of the victims were also videotaped when the suspects were having sex with the and the videos sold to phonography website.
Cp Manko said the police will not relent until all the suspects involved in the case are arrested. He warned phone users to desist from buying stolen phones
"What these people do is that after stealing this phones they will flash the phones and remove all the details of the owners of the phone that is what they did with Cynthia's phone but we got her pin which cannot be destroyed so people should be wary of the phones they buy as this can be stolen property. The suspects will be arraign in court soon" Mr Manko said.
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