Uduak Akpan
The Akwa Ibom State Police Command has paraded Uduak Akpan, who allegedly raped and killed job seeker, Miss Iniubong Umoren, and his father, Mr. Frank Akpan.
The state Commissioner of Police, Amiengheme Andrew, said the parade was necessary to dispel rumours that the suspect had committed suicide while in its custody.
Meanwhile, the Iniubong was buried yesterday in her family compound in Nung Ita, Ikot Essien in Oruk Anam Local Council. At the funeral service, friends and sympathisers of the deceased, who were undeterred by a downpour, rained curses on Uduak and others behind the heinous crime. x
By Okon Bassey
The Akwa Ibom State Police Command yesterday paraded Uduak Frank Akpan, the principal suspect in the raping and killing of an Akwa Ibom job seeker, Iniubong Umoren, with the state governor, Mr. Udom Emmanuel promising to ensure all the perpetrators of the heinous crime are punished.
The suspect was paraded to dispel rumours he committed suicide in police custody.
Akpan, who was paraded alongside his father, said he killed Ini Umoren in self defence and not intentionally.
Iniubong’s ordeal started when she posted on Twitter that she needed a job and Frank Akpan invited her to come for an interview.
Remains of slain Akwa Ibom job-seeker laid to rest
The victim was kidnapped, raped and killed in April while honouring a fake job interview.
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The body of Iniubong Umoren, the 26-year-old University of Uyo Philosophy graduate, who was raped and killed by a fake job recruiter, has been buried.
Miss Umoren, an orphan, was buried on Friday at her hometown, Nung Ita, Ikot Essien in Oruk Anam Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State.
The victim was kidnapped, raped and killed in April while honouring a fake job interview in the suburbs of the state capital, Uyo.
The suspect, Uduak Akpan, described as a “serial rapist”, is being detained at the police headquarters in Uyo.
The remains of Iniobong Umoren were on Friday buried in her hometown, Nung Ita in Oruk Anam Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State.
Ms Umoren, an orphan and 26-year-old graduate of Philosophy from the University of Uyo, was murdered while seeking employment in Uyo.
The police have arrested a suspect, Uduak Akpan, who confessed to the crime, although he claims it was in self-defence.
Ms Umoren was also physically and sexually assaulted, the Akwa Ibom police have said.
Mr Akpan had invited Ms Umoren for a job interview at Airport Road, Ibiaku junction on April 29 where he apparently carried out the atrocities.
On Thursday, April 29, 2021, 20-year-old Akpan lured Umoren, a fresh graduate of the University of Uyo, to his lair in the guise of offering her a job and took her life after raping and torturing her to death, police say. The incident transpired in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital, south of Nigeria. Umoren went for a job interview and was later found dead and buried in a shallow grave. (Sahara Reporters/Twitter) Pulse Nigeria Sporting a self-indicting yellow T-shirt on a wet day in Uyo, Akpan says he acted in self-defence after Umoren bit his index finger. He had lured Umoren to his home from social media.