A young graduate who took to trading while waiting for mobilization by the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), has been raped to death in Benue State .
The Benue State Police Command is trying to unravel the killing of Joy Ogochukwu Onoh, 24,at the North Bank area of Makurdi, the state capital.
Joy, a graduate of Benue State University, who also engaged in the sale of clothes and snickers as a side business, was allegedly raped and killed by some unidentified persons.
It was learnt that the deceased had answered the phone call of some customers to supply them some wears at North Bank, on Tuesday, but didn’t return home.
Her childhood friend and university classmate, Patience Onuche, said Joy had informed her that she was going to supply a red turtle neck top to an unidentified customer that fateful day and never returned home.
On her part, Joy’s mother, Mrs. Grace Onoh, said when she waited till evening and her daughter was not returning, she made several efforts to reach her on phone to no avail.
“Her phone kept saying number busy as we kept calling. At a point, she now called back crying and only asked that her UBA account number be sent to the phone and the phone went dead. We made several efforts to reach her, thereafter, but it wasn’t possible.”
Madam Onoh, a widow of 12 years, said her first daughter, Joy, who was waiting to be mobilised for the mandatory National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, decided to be self-employed and got herself engaged in sales of bouquet T-shirts, men’s shirts, and other women’s wears online and even did home delivery services.
She said she, thereafter, reported the matter at the Police D’ Division but was asked to wait for 24 hours before she would be declared missing.
The deceased mother, said before she could be declared missing, her corpse was found at Low-Cost Federal Housing Estate at North Bank.
Confirming the report, Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Catherine Anene, said the matter was reported to the police.
