A man identified as Sunday Etukudo has been arrested by the Akwa Ibom State Police Command for allegedly killing his 20-year-old daughter, Ofonmbuk Sunday.
Findings revealed that the suspect killed his daughter because of a misunderstanding ongoing they had.
Briefing journalists about the incident, the Command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Odiko Macdon, said the suspect confessed to confessing the crime but added that he claimed it was not intentional.
The spokesman said Etukudo claimed that the deceased daughter, during the scuffle, held his manhood which made him use a stick to hit her head and she collapsed.
In a bid to cover his crime, he buried the daughter in his family compound at Omum Unyiam Village in Etim Ekpo Local Government Area of the state, the statement revealed.
Macdon also added that the police have already exhumed the corpse and preserved same for autopsy.
The statement reads in parts, “based on credible information, on 9th October 2022, at about 1910hrs, one Ime Sunday Etukudo of Omum Unyiam village in Etim Ekpo Local Government Area, unlawfully killed and buried his daughter, one Ofonmbuk Ime Sunday, aged 20yrs, at the family compound at Omum Unyiam Village.
“The suspect alleged that there was a family misunderstanding, which led to a fight, and that the victim held his manhood, that he, in turn, used a stick to hit her on the head, which led to her death and that he decided to bury her in a shallow grave to cover his track.”
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, CP Olatoye Durosinmi, according to the statement, has ordered for a discrete investigation of the case saying that the suspect would be charged to court as soon as possible.
He, therefore, warned residents against self help and urged them to report a case of misunderstanding to police.