I Am Ready To Die, Says Alleged Killer Of Iniubong Umoren
The alleged murderer of late
26-year-old Miss Iniubong Umoren, graduate of the Philosophy University of Uyo,
(UNIUYO) Uduak Frank Akpan has said he was prepared to die if that would be the
only acceptable justice for the heinous crime.
Akpan who spoke on Friday when
paraded at the Police Headquarters, Ikot Akpan Abia, Uyo, though admitted to
having lured and raped more than six girls through advertising for phoney job
vacancies, purely as revenge for how girls had been duping him but denied
killing any other girl apart from Iniubong Umoren.
The 20-year-old and 200 level
student of Public Administration, Obong University, Obong Ntak, Akwa Ibom
State, who was paraded alongside his father, Mr Frank Akpan, admitted to
killing Umoren when she came for the fake job interview and he demanded sex to
which she agreed but insisted on using a condom.
Continuing, the suspect added his
father was not around and never assisted him in any way to either kill or bury
the remains of the deceased.
On his part, the father, Frank
Akpan, a retired director in the federal ministry of lands, denied knowledge of
the crime until he was invited by the police, even as he admitted that the
house in which the murder was effected was his own.
He denied ever being in the
business of selling human parts as alleged.
The state commissioner of police,
Mr Andrew Amiegheme said he decided to parade the suspect to puncture the
rumour that he had committed suicide while in a police cell.
