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Why I held my Philippino Facebook lover hostage for 6 months -Suspect

Why I held my Philippino Facebook lover hostage for 6 months -Suspect
Why I held my Philippino Facebook lover hostage for 6 months -Suspect

Chukwudi Odo arrested for abducting a Philippino , Irene Torento Panas, 40 ,has said that he was planning to wed her.

The Philippino met Odo, On Facebook, sometime in 2017, she thought she had met her a future husband not knowing that he is a devil in sheep clothing .

Odo lured her to Nigeria and She arrived the country through the Nnamdi Azikiwe International airport where Odo was waiting for her, and took her straight to his village Enugu Ezike in Igbo-Eze North Local Government Area of Enugu State.

Immediately she arrived Odo dispossessed her of her International passport, stole all the money she came with, beat her mercilessly and raped her at will.

His family members who were scared that something bad may happen to the visitor and reported the matter to the Unity Police Division, Ibegwa Nike, Enugu State.

The divisional police officer SP Siga Malgwi,led his team ; rescued Irene and took her to the hospital . The case was immediately reported to the police force headquarters in Abuja.

Investigation by the police revealed that odo deliberately lured the victim into the country with the aim of confining her, sexually abusing, and extorting money from her.

The suspects who was brought to Abuja and paraded before newsmen Monday claimed to be a media practitioner and talked arrogantly during his interview with journalists.

In this interview, Odo who said he is separated from his wife but not divorced ,said: “

My name is Chukwudi Odo. I am 54, years old.

I read journalism at the institute of journalism Enugu and I also attended the Institute Of management technology where I studied technical education.

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I met Irene on the Facebook on March 5, 2017. I chatted her, she responded and then we became friends and we became so familiar with each other, we were in touch on regular basis.

“From 2017, to 2019. But before then we had agreed to marry each other and she was working in Dubai at that time and she told me to have patience with her until 2019 so that she will come and live with me in Nigeria or i have an option to come and live with her in her home in the Philippine. But I told her that for now, I will not leave my country to another country and I also told her about my financial handicap and being that we were in touch with one another despite the distance, she tried and send some money that will help to sustain us because I have a big farm so that when she comes, we can be sustaining from the farm after the little change that she came with must have been exhausted.

And that is exactly how we have been living. We have been living comfortably from that November 22, 2019, in my village when she flew into Nigerian through Nnamdi Azikiwe airport abuja.

“I even wrote to the embassy of the Philippines acknowledging them of her arrival. So it happened that I have some minor land dispute with the people of Ndekuno, where I bought a land where I am residing of which she knows very well.

So during that period, she had constipation and then it was COVID-19, and I was planning to take her to the hospital.

“I married her but I did not pay any bride price to anybody. I have not yet wedded her in the church or mosque or court we were on the process.

“Police did not arrest me, it was the village people who took me to the police station over the land matter. They also alleged that this my woman is sick and that I refused to take her to the hospital. They came to my house on June 1, telling me to take her to Hospital, then I asked them how did you people know that she is sick and they started beating me on that day and I wanted to take her to Hospital on June 2 for pregnancy test.

When she came her visa was for one month but her ticket was for ten days but I kept her for six months. But she stayed longer with me because it was the agreement between me and her family. I knew her family through the social media”.

Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO), DCP Frank Mba said Investigation was ongoing and that the police have contacted Embassy of the Philippines in Nigeria with the hope of reuniting the victim with members of her family.

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