A university student, Blessing Karami who was declared missing on September 11 has been found dead.
The family broke the news to
THE WHISTLER on Wednesday evening.
The deceased who was a student
of National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN), was declared missing after
leaving her place of work in Garki, Abuja.
Disclosing the news to this
paper, Genesis Moses Karami, the deceased’s elder brother who relocated from
Kaduna to Abuja to lead the search said her decomposing body was found in the
bush in Karmo district of the Federal Capital Territory.
The police had arrested one
Aminu, the boyfriend to the deceased who was questioned regarding her
disappearance.
Recall THE WHISTLER reported
that the 26-year-old Blessing went missing after leaving her place of work
before time with the office key, which was said to be usual.
Our Correspondent had visited
the Divisional Police Headquarters, Durumi, on Wednesday morning where Aminu
was being held.
Karami was also at the station explaining to the Divisional Police Officer (DPO), that on Tuesday evening when he left the station, he received a strange call giving details about the sister’s body but it turned out to be false.
“The caller said he saw a
female body in Idu, so we asked him to describe what she was wearing, and he
told us exactly what we were told my sister wore to office the day she went
missing,” the brother had explained to the police.
According to Karami, after he
kept trying to contact the DPO and it was not going through, he had to go to
the police station at Karmo, but upon reaching there with a group of policemen,
the caller kept toying with them as he kept changing locations until they got tired
and left.
In a follow up call later to
Karami, he confirmed to THE WHISTLER that his sister has truly died.
“We saw her decomposed body in
the bush here at Karmo, it’s not something we can move, we have to arrange with
the environmental people to come and help us pack.
“We cannot travel with it. We
just have to bury it here. It seems she died for days due to the nature of the
decomposition,” Karami said sadly while trying to sound strong.
Attempts to speak with the FCT
Police command were unsuccessful.
Also Hope Jonathan, one of the
police officers that handled the case at Durumi police station, before it was
transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Development, could not be
reached as of press time.
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