Teenage Girl Raped to Death in Enugu Community

Posted by African Examiner Featured, Latest Headlines, News Friday, March 29th, 2019

Ignatius Okpara, Enugu

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Imufu community in Enugu Ezike, Igbo-Eze North Council Area of Enugu State, South- East Nigeria, has been thrown into tension, following the alleged raping to death of a teenage girl , Miss Ngozi Eze by unknown persons.

The lifeless body of the girl was said to have been found by villagers in a bush behind community secondary school Imufu, several hours after her family declared her missing.

According to her father, Mr. Jonathan Eze, who spoke on Wednesday at the scene where Ngozi’s remains was found, said the deceased, had gone for her JAMB lessons on Tuesday in preparation for the forthcoming UTME, and did not return home.

Eze, disclosed that he had earlier dropped her late daughter off with his motorcycle at the lesson centre that Tuesday.

He told the crowd that gathered in the bush where his daughter’s corpse was found that he took her on his motorcycle to the Township School, Ogrute, Enugu Ezike, where she went for JAMB lessons in the evening of that day.

Eze said he went back later to pick her only to be informed that somebody had given her a lift.

“I left Township School, Ogrute and went home straight, hoping to see her but she wasn’t there. We waited till 8 pm and started looking for her.

“She was not the type that normally socialised. We did not sleep as her telephone number was switched off, it was only this morning (Wednesday) that we got information that her corpse was found here.

“She was to enter the university last year when she completed her secondary education but we prevailed on her to exercise patience for her elder brother to graduate, because we cannot afford to train two persons in the university.

‘’Since then, she has been working hard to gain admission this year, but this is what has now happened.”

Offering prayers for the repose of the soul of the deceased at the scene where the corpse was fund, amid wailing and sobbing by sympathizers, shortly before a team of police detectives took the body away, for further investigation, Parish priest of the area, Rev. Father Johnson Nwanonenyi, said that human beings would always reap the bad seeds they sowed while on earth.

He added: “The perpetrators of this heinous crime will be exposed. God will not allow His creation to be humiliated this way, without punishing them adequately,” the priest said.

The police who arrived the scene said a close observation of her corpse showed lacerations around her neck and ankles, suggesting she must have been strangled by her rapists.

It was gathered that Her books and writing materials, handkerchief and shreds of her clothing were scattered around the scene.

Efforts by our correspondent to speak with the Enugu state police public Relations officer PPRO, Ebere Amarizu on the unfortunate incident , failed, as his mobile phone was not available as at the time of filing this report.