Views: Visits 7 By Chioma Onuegbu, Uyo THE alleged murderer of late 26-year-old Miss Iniubong Umoren, graduate of the Philosophy University of Uyo, (UNIUYO) Uduak Frank Akpan has said he was prepared to die if that would be the only acceptable justice for the heinous crime. Akpan who spoke on Friday when paraded at the Police Headquarters, Ikot Akpan Abia, Uyo, though admitted to having lured and raped more than six girls through advertising for phoney job vacancies, purely as revenge for how girls had been duping him but denied killing any other girl apart from Iniubong Umoren. The 20-year-old and 200 level student of Public Administration, Obong University, Obong Ntak, Akwa Ibom State, who was paraded alongside his father, Mr Frank Akpan, admitted to killing Umoren when she came for the fake job interview and he demanded sex to which she agreed but insisted on using a condom.
Umoren had shown up at the address for a job interview that never was. 20-year-old
Frank Akpan confessed to the crime a couple of days later, according to the police, and remains in custody. On Tuesday, May 11, 2021, investigative journalist
David Hundeyin published a report in
Newswirengr.com, in which he alleged that Akpan didn t commit the crime alone and that there is some evidence that the suspect worked in cahoots with a certain
Kufre Effiong, a civil servant and Superintendent of Police,
Samuel Ezeugo, among others. The report also alleged that the Akwa Ibom Police Command allowed a desecration of the crime scene to conceal evidence, and that there were bones of Akpan s other victims strewn all over the site of Umoren s murder.
Thursday, May 13, 2021
Civil Servant Kufre Effiong Linked To Death Of Job Seeker Iniobong Umoren Denies Involvement And Says Killer Is His Cousin
Kufre Effiong has spoken out via a press release after a report by one David Hundeyin linked him to the murder of Iniobong Umoren,the job-seeking Akwa Ibom lady killed by one Uduak Frank Akpan.
Investigative Journalist David Hundeyin, in his report, accused the Akwa Ibom police of trying to cover up the murder of Umoren because it was carried out by a well-connected criminal gang.
He claimed that Kufre Effiong, who is a senior civil servant working at the Niger Delta Ministry headed by Senator Godswill Akpabio, was in contact with Uduak before his arrest.
Uduak, Who Raped And Murdered Inibong Umoren, Is My Cousin Kufre Effiong [SEE FULL STATEMENT]
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Kufre Effiong, a senior civil servant working at the Niger Delta Ministry headed by Senator Godswill Akpabio, has finally spoken out after a report by one David Hundeyin linked him to the murder of Iniobong Umoren, the job-seeking Akwa Ibom lady raped and killed by Uduak Frank Akpan.
In his report, Hundeyin accused the Akwa Ibom police of trying to cover up the murder of Umoren because it was carried out by a well-connected criminal gang.
He claimed that Effiong was in contact with Uduak before his arrest.
The
Akwa Ibom statecommand of the police has dismissed claims that Frank Akpan, the suspected killer of Iniubong Umoren, the job-seeker raped and killed last month, committed suicide.
Dismissing the speculation, the police commissioner for the state,, Amiengheme Andrew, said Mr Akpan is alive and in custody.
“It is a lie. It is a lie,” Mr Andrew, who claimed to be busy in a meeting, quickly dismissed in an interview with
Also, the command’s spokesperson, Odiko Ogbeche-Macdon,
confirmed to P.M. News that Mr Akpan is in custody.
“It is fake news. It’s coming from individuals who are bent on tarnishing the image of the Police Force. I can confirm to you that Uduak (Akpan) is in our custody and he is hale and hearty,” he was quoted to have said.