Detectives from the homicide department of the Delta State Police Command are now investigating the gruesome murder of a 27-year old graduate, Miss Ifeanyi Uti, who was allegedly killed by her lover, one Valentine Ala, who is now on the run.
The suspect allegedly lured his lover from her family house in Asaba, Delta State, to far away Minna, the Niger State capital, where he allegedly murdered her in a hotel room.
Although, a case of ritual killing was suspected on account of the mutilation of one of the eyes, autopsy reports, however, indicated that no part of the body was removed.
The incident took place on January 28 but the family did not get to know until February 6, when the alleged murderer confessed through a text message that he killed her.
Ifeanyi was buried last month, the tears of her mother, Mrs. Patience Uti, have not ceased to flow, as she has been finding the loss of the last of her four children, unbearable. In great grief, she pleads with security operatives to smoke out Valentine from his hiding place.
Late Ifeanyi, a fresh graduate of Chemistry from Ambrose Ali University, Ekpoma, Edo State, was said to have met Valentine in July last year and a romantic relationship blossomed between them. But it was relationship built on lies, and it appeared Ify, as she was fondly called by her siblings, was too naive to read between the lines until the unexpected happened.
Sunday Sun learnt that her family members had warned her to quit the relationship because of Valentine’s suspicious character but he succeeded in bamboozling and regaling her with tales of his undying love for her.
He was said to have told Ify that he was a gallant officer of the Department of State Service (DSS), who had burst several criminal syndicates particularly those engaged in kidnapping in Delta State. To convince his unsuspecting lover, Valentine acted a scene where he called while pretending to be on the trail of kidnappers who abducted a woman in Warri.
Although, Ifeanyi’s family demonstrated cold feet towards him, he never relented as he continued to plot how to elope with the girl, to carry out his evil intention.
His first failed plot, was when he wanted to take her to Port Harcourt where he claimed that his father had secured a plum job for him in an oil company on the ground that he was simply fed up with the security job.
But the family resisted, and he later left Asaba in November last year and never came back till January, this year. While he was away, according to Ifeanyi’s elder sister, Awele, he was always in contact with the deceased, apparently to keep the flames of love burning while he perfected his plot.
Awele said the family had already petitioned the Delta State Commissioner of Police over the incident, adding that the homicide department of the command in Asaba was handling the investigation.
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