The decomposed body of a female officer with the Nigerian Security and Civil Defense Corps, NSCDC, Josephine Cynthia Inalegwu Onche has been found in a shallow grave in Obi Local Government Area of Benue State.
Cynthia, an Assistant Superintendent of Corps (ASC11), was declared missing by her family on December 20, 2019, few days before her wedding.
She had gone to the market to buy some things for the wedding.
Seventeen months after she was declared missing, it has been discovered that her fiance slaughtered her for rituals.
Her husband-to-be and the witch doctor who used her blood and body parts for rituals have been arrested by the police.
An informant, a commercial Motorcycle operator (Okada) who allegedly saw how her would-be husband used her for ritual purposes, summoned enough courage to inform her family about his discovery.
It was further gathered that the informant, a commercial motorcyclist led detectives to arrest her fiance and a herbalist who was fingered in the killing.
So it was that approximately 17 months after she had been declared missing, Cynthia, a mother of three, was found buried in a shallow grave somewhere in Obi Local Government Area of Benue State.
“Cynthia, the daughter of the former Mayor of Otukpo was found, but allegedly killed and buried by her husband-to-be for ritual purpose, a source disclosed.
“An Okada man who knew what happened to late Cynthia Onche went to her family members and gave them the news. He led them to arrest her proposed husband, an Igbo man who led the police to Ogun State where they arrested the native doctor, a Yoruba, who performed the ritual.
A police source told our Correspondent that the proposed husband and the native doctor have both confessed to committing the crime and are presently in police custody in Otukpo.
However, the family of the late security personnel was said to have exhumed her remains and buried her on Tuesday, June 1st, 2021.
