A man, Innocent Uko, has reportedly killed his own son, Boniface Innocent-Uko and burnt his corpse in Ebe Ikpe, a village in Essien Udim Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom.
It was gathered that the suspect has been arrested by the Akwa Ibom State Police Command.
The command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Odiko Macdon, made this known on Tuesday.
He disclosed that the village head of the community, Chief Akpan Aniekan, and the village council chairman, Sylvester Akpan reported the incident at the Essien Udim Divisional Police Headquarters.
The police spokesperson said, “They reported that one Innocent Uko of Ebe Ikpe used a machete to kill his son, Boniface Innocent Uko, 26, burnt his corpse, and dumped the remains in an abandoned pit toilet in his compound to conceal the act.
“On the strength of the report, police operatives visited the scene [and recovered] the burnt corpse, now deposited at the mortuary. The suspect was arrested and has confessed to killing the deceased, on the grounds of bad character and incessant harassment and embarrassment.”
Also, the image maker of the command disclosed that the command had arrested Charley Edem John, who allegedly stole two seven-year-old children.
Macdon said, “The division, acting on an intelligence report, arrested Charley Edem John, who stole two children, each age seven, from their school. The suspect used his own kid brother, who is 10 years old and in the same school, to lure the children out of their class.”
According to the police spokesperson, the suspects will be charged in court once ongoing investigations are concluded.
Meanwhile, an Abuja-based businesswoman, Mrs Juliet Okpako, is currently devastated after losing N2.8m to a fraudster who posed as a bank official.
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Okpako said the incident happened on Friday.
The distraught woman said trouble started when a lady contacted her on the telephone and claimed to be calling from her bank.
She said the caller, who identified herself as Ms. Joy, told her she called to warn her not to disclose her account details to anyone under any disguise.
According to her, she did not suspect the caller because she kept warning her that if anybody asked for her Bank Verification Number or any of her bank details, she should not make the information available to the person.
Okpako said, “Somebody called me and she said she was calling from my bank. She said some people had been scamming some of their customers. She said they were trying to rectify something. She asked whether I had received any messages. I told him no. She said I should check my phone and send back the message they sent me to her.
“I sent the number to her and I received another one. She said I was going to receive another message from the bank. And when I saw the message, it was from my bank. I did not suspect anything, as she kept on telling me that if anybody asked for my BVN and all that, I should not send it.
“Immediately after I sent that number, I started receiving debit alerts. That was how I knew I had been scammed. I rushed to my bank, but before I got there, all the N2.8m in my bank had been withdrawn. They transferred N200,000 multiple times to other accounts.
“They also used N100,000 to recharge some telephone numbers. I opened the account just to save the money to start a new business.”
She lamented that after all her efforts to block the account failed, the last money in her account was debited when she was asked to get a form before the account could be blocked.