Nigeria’s secret police, the SSS, appears to have taken over investigation into the case of the Akwa Ibom woman who was raped and killed in April by a 20-year-old man, Uduak Akpan, who had lured her with a fake job offer.
The victim, Iniubong Umoren, 26, was buried in a shallow grave inside the suspect’s family house where she was brutally killed, in the outskirts of Uyo, the Akwa Ibom capital.
The crime attracted nationwide outrage. Nigerians have been putting pressure on the police to bring her killers to justice.
A former attorney general of Akwa Ibom State, Uwemedimo Nwoko, told our source last week that the SSS has taken over the investigation from the police.
Mr Nwoko, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, is holding brief in the case for a socio-cultural group, Ati Annang, which promotes and protects the interest of the Annang, one of the ethnic nationalities in Akwa Ibom.
The late Miss Umoren was an Annang woman. She was an orphan.
She had just graduated from theDepartment of Philosophy, University of Uyo, and was hoping she could get a temporary job, make some decent money for herself ahead of the mandatory National Youth Service Corps.
And then her dream was suddenly cut short in the most brutal manner.
“Our steps so far have actually led to the matter being further investigated because we (Ati Annang) were not satisfied with the level of investigations that the police carried out, hence we demanded that the matter should be further investigated with all loose ends tight.
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