Corpse of a former student of University of Abuja, Blessing Otunla, has been found naked inside a drain around Iddo area of Federal Capital Territory.
Otunla, a former English Language student of the university, was said to have travelled from Oyo State to Abuja on Saturday in order to get her academic transcript.
A student of the university, who didn’t want his name mentioned according to ThePunch said;
We saw the dead body of the lady at a permanent site area of the school inside the gutter that is along the road. Someone who knew her identified her body. She graduated two years ago. The development has caused fear among those of us staying in the area.
A relative of Otunla with the Twitter handle, @Dondekojo, confirmed the development, who faulted the process of her having to travel to get transcript after graduating.
The Twitter user wrote;
I lost a cousin yesterday, and it’s emblematic of the state of the country. Why do graduates need to travel all the way for transcript? She travelled to Abuja for her transcript and was found dead in a gutter; so sad.
I lost a cousin yesterday, and it’s emblematic of the state of the country. Why do graduates need to travel all the way for transcript? She traveled to Abuja for her transcript and was found dead in a gutter. So sad.
— $AYOBAMI (@dondekojo) May 23, 2021
According to member of the House of Representatives, Hon. Olajide Olatubosun, the young lady was raped and killed.
Otunla Oyeronke a young lady from my constituency and a graduate of UNIABUJA was brutally raped, murdered and her body was found inside a gutter at Iddo Sarki in the FCT.
— Hon. Olajide Olatubosun, FCA (@Jide_Olatubosun) May 23, 2021
This is tragic and heartbreaking and I feel a deep sense of loss that a promising young lady will be so gruesomely murdered.
I commiserate with her immediate family, her friends colleagues and all the people of my constituency.— Hon. Olajide Olatubosun, FCA (@Jide_Olatubosun) May 23, 2021
Police spokesperson in the FCT, Mariam Yusuf, confirmed the incident, saying the command had launched a full scale investigation into the matter.
She added; “We have launched a full-scale investigation and we are on the trail of the suspects”.
