The police in Rivers have
arrested a suspect who was “about strangling” a woman at a hotel in the Mile 4
axis of the state.
Mustapha Dandaura, the state
commissioner of police, disclosed this while addressing the female groups that
protested the recent killing of young women in the state.
At least eight women have been murdered
in different hotels in the state in the last two months.
Dandaura said the victim woke up
around 2am and noticed that the suspect was about using a pillow to choke her.
She was said to have struggled
with the man and raised the alarm when he became violent.
On Tuesday, the commissioner had
said the force arrested two suspects in connection with the killings.
He said while one of the suspects
was trailed to Kaduna state, the other was apprehended after a young woman
reported to the police that a man was trying to lure her to a hotel with a
promise to pay her N30,000.
Dandaura said the suspect would
be brought to Rivers where he allegedly committed the crime.
“So far, we have made substantial
progress in the investigation of these killings. In one of the cases, the
actual murder suspect has been arrested and he is making useful confessions. He
would have been paraded today but we are still working on some clues given by
him that may aid our investigation,” he had said.
“Regrettably, it has come to my
notice that some hotels have yet to comply with my directive on CCTV camera,
hence my order to arrest the managers, receptionists and desk officers in two
hotels, where two separate murders were recorded.
“They will be investigated and if
found culpable, charged with culpable homicide. Today, I want to reinforce our
commitment to tackling the menace and assure you that we have come to the end
of this monstrous act by desperate cultists and ritualists.”
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