SAD:- See How A 20-Year-Old Covenant Student Was Murdered In Lagos

Lagos State Police Command is
currently investigating the
circumstances surrounding the
kidnap and m****r of a 20-year-old
undergraduate, identified as John
Chinedu Okere.
Until his death, Chinedu was a 300
level Electrical Engineering student
at Covenant University, Otta in
Ogun State

The victim, John-Chinedu-Okere
Chinedu had left his parent’s
house in the morning of
Wednesday, August 6, 2014, to a
Hospital in Yaba, Lagos for
medical reasons and that was the
last time he was seen alive.
According to Vanguard report, the
victim’s father, Jude Okere,
received an SMS notifying him that
Chinedu had been kidnapped and
he later got a call from a hidden
number who demanded N10
million ransom for the release of
his son or he would be killed. They
reported the case to the Divisional
Police Station at Sabo, Yaba and it
was later transferred to the Special
Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, Ikeja
the next day where investigations
commenced.
Unfortunately, two days later, his
decomposing corpse was
discovered in one of the rooms at
‘DE Homes Hotel’ located in Ejigbo
by one of their staff.
It was gathered from some family
members that one of the friends of
the deceased had called on phone
earlier that morning to tell him to
meet him at a hotel.
A reliable source in the hotel said
on that fateful day, the prime
suspect, Okorocha Michael along
with another young man simply
identified as Okey, checked into the
hotel with the name Christian,
claiming to be a youth corps
member who wanted to write
exams and would be there from
that Wednesday to Friday and that
he was expecting his cousin to join
him in the hotel.
“As soon as Chinedu arrived
the hotel, Michael took him
to the room. We don’t know
what happened inside the
room. However, it was later
gathered that during their
stay in the room, the suspect
reportedly confronted the
victim on some personal
issues. The confrontation
eventually led to a heated
argument, which later led to
the suspect strangulating
the victim to death,” the
source said.
The prime suspect, 24-year-old
Okorocha Michael, a graduate of
Lagos City Polytechnic, Ikeja, was
later arrested in a friend’s house
around Ajah area in Lagos.
The family is praying that justice
prevails and the killers are brought
to book.