The Nigerian Navy has arrested a naval rating which was indicted in the death of a 16-year-old girl, Nengi Enenimiete, who died in a hotel in Bayelsa State.
Recall that the victim’s lifeless body was found in the wardrobe of the Blevera Hotel located in Twon Brass, Brass Local Government Area of the state in November 2022.
The corpse, however, showed no signs of physical injuries, mutilation or strangulation.
The spokesman of the Bayelsa Police Command, Asinim Butswat had earlier confirmed the incident saying, “On 21st November 2022 the manager of a Hotel in Twon Brass, reported at the Divisional Police Headquarters, Brass, that he perceived an offensive odour from one of the rooms in the hotel, upon a search he discovered a lifeless female corpse hidden inside a wardrobe.
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“The deceased was later identified as Nengi Enenimiete, female, aged 16. Investigation is ongoing to identify the suspects who lodge in the hotel room on the night of the incident. The corpse has been evacuated and deposited at the mortuary for autopsy.”
The indigenes pushed for the arrest of the person the deceased lodged with on the day she died and also demanded that an autopsy be conducted.
It was, however, gathered that the naval rating which was reportedly killed Enenimiete has been arrested through combined effort of the Naval Police, the operatives of the Nigerian Police and the leadership of youths in the community.
He was said to have been apprehended in the custody of the Nigerian Navy located at Egweama in Brass Local Government Area and will likely be handed over to the Nigerian Police for prosecution after the internal naval trials.