A Bayelsa man has been arrested by the police for allegedly strangulating a 26 year old lady to death.
The man, Joseph Fekala was said in have killed the 26 year old Kate Ogwoh on Thursday July 28, 2022 and buried her in a shallow grave in his bedroom at Okaka community in Yenagoa Local Government Area of the state.
Bayelsa State Police Command said the suspected was nabbed on Friday, July 29, 2022 and detained at the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department.
The Commissioner of Police, Ben Okolo in an interview with journalists in Yenagoa said operatives from the
Homicide Department of the SCIID had been deployed to exhume the corpse.
According to him, information got to the Command on Thursday that one, Mr Joseph Fekala strangled his girlfriend to death in the Okaka area of the State.
He said: “We understand that he buried her in his room. We have made an arrangement for the Homicide Section of the State CIID to do the needful by doing proper exhumation in line with police proceedings so that we will ensure that the matter is investigated properly and the suspect faces justice.”
Explaining, father of the deceased,
Dick Ogwoh, said before the suspect’s arrest, his wife told him she called their daughter’s mobile many times, but it didn’t connect which made them suspicious and uncomfortable and later visited the suspect’s home.
Ogwoh said: “My wife called me to say that my daughter’s number was not going through. From morning till evening, the number didn’t connect. My wife told me the boy (Fekala) owed Kate N50,000 and he refused to pay the money. Each time she (Kate) called him, he would not pick his call.
“I asked the boy where my daughter was and he said he didn’t see her. In the process, I asked him the last time he saw her and he said a day before.
“I asked him what she wore and he said white polo (shirt) and black jean trousers. I asked him when she left the house, he said around 7am. His younger sister is my daughter’s schoolmate.”
He said he was making a complaint to the police when he received a call informing him that the suspect killed their daughter and buried her in a shallow grave in his room.
It was learnt that the suspect was a worker in one of the branches of a mega church in Yenagoa and was recently promoted to the position of a youth pastor.
