A lady identified as Chinasa Sophia has been found dead inside a drainage at Odikpi village, along Osumenyi/Akwuihedi road, Osumenyi in Nnewi South Local Government Area of Anambra State.
The deceased, who is said to be a graduate of the Institute of Management Technology (IMT) Enugu State, was found with her hands and legs tied with rope and mouth gagged.
According to police report, she was found lifeless with marks of violence on her body inside the gutter by residents in the area.
She was then rushed to Visitation Hospital Osumenyi where she was pronounced dead by a Doctor.
Confirming the incident, Haruna Mohammed, spokesman of the State Police Command on Wednesday, November 11, said efforts are being made to apprehend the perpetrators.
He expressed;
On the 10/11/2020 at about 12pm, there was a report by a good Samaritan from Osumenyi in Nnewi South LGA that a girl whose name and address is yet to be ascertained, aged about 22years was seen lying lifeless inside a gutter along Osumenyi/Akwuihedi road Osumenyi with mark of violence on her neck, mouth was sealed with tape while her legs and hands were tied with rope.
Mohammed added;
Scene was visited by Police operatives attached to Nnewi Area Command and victim was rushed to Visitation Hospital Osumenyi where she was confirmed dead by the doctor on duty. Corpse was photorgraphed and deposited at the same hospital morgue for autopsy and effort being intensified to ascertain circumstances surrounding the incident in order to apprehend perpetrators and bring them to book.
However, shortly after the news of her death became public, the identity of the lady was known, as friends familiar with her mourned her on social media.
According to one David Azubike Chikwunyelum who knew the victim, said late Chinasa was a sales girl until her death.
He expressed;
Some time on Sunday evening or Monday this week i came across this post (Only the victim as her lifeless body lays on the drainage), I by passed it, reason I can’t Identify the face, secondly I don’t have come to believe that some whom i know will be a such victim, it never occurred in my mind. Today as I arrive for normal business my neighbors greeted that a lady was killed in Nnewi by unknown people and dump in the gutter and was in Facebook, I remembered I came across such! I ask for her identity , oh my God it’s Chinasa, she is a sales girl, I use to buy from her Bullet energy drink, Pure Heaven fruit juice and Vitasoy soya drink. May her soul rest in peace.
Other friends and former classmates of the victim taken to Facebook to mourn her, cursing the perpetrators of the act.
See some photos of the lady before her death and when she was found inside the gutter below;
