The suspects arrested in connection with the murder of a female member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Stephanie Terungwa, have revealed how they killed her a few weeks ago.
The suspects, Jenifer Tsembe (26), Monday Simon aka Black (36) and Solomon Abu (35), all residents of Oguta Lake Street, Maitama, Abuja, revealed their respective roles while speaking to journalists when they were paraded by the police.
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The female suspect, Jenifer, said the late Stephanie had earlier come to her house to collect a phone the day she was found dead and denied involvement in the murder.
She said the male suspects were the ones that told her that they wanted to kidnap Stephanie to demand ransom.
But one of the male suspects, who said he was a colleague of the female suspect, told journalists that she invited him to help her scare Stephanie from her man.
According to him, the only role he played was to open the gate for the late corps member when she came to Jenifer’s house.
He claimed that he met two other men who tied the late corps, and that he left the place and later heard of the murder.
The second male suspect said he did not kill the corps member, adding that he held and tied her as instructed by the female suspect before leaving the house.
He said the female suspect called him up later in the night to come to her house, adding that he met the corps member in a terrible state bathed with acid.
According to him, the female suspect was crying and saying she didn’t know why she killed the corps member.
He further said, “She held my legs and was begging me to help her dispose the body, after which she called someone who brought a car. The person left the car, which we later used to carry the body to where we dumped it at about 3am.”
He said the female suspect paid him N100,000.
Giving an update about the incident, the Commissioner of Police in the FCT, Sunday Babaji, said discrete investigation revealed that the late corps member resided in City Homes Estate, Lokogoma, with one Edward Achadu.
According to him, it was discovered that she left home with her one-year, five-month-old son and never returned home.
He said, “A day later, the son was recovered at Holy Trinity Catholic Church upon a call placed through to one of the paternal relatives.
“Discrete and painstaking investigation by tactical and intelligence assets of the command attached to the homicide section of the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) led to the arrest of the three suspects.”
He stressed that the suspects criminally conspired and murdered the victim to separate her from Edward Achadu to pave way for the female suspect and estranged lover of Edward, Jenifer Tsembe, to have him to herself.
