The family house of Uduak Akpan, the prime suspect in the murder of a jobseeker, Iniubong Umoren, have been vandalised by youths from Nnung Ikono Obio in the Oruan Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State.
The youths besieged the suspect’s family house on Tuesday, setting ablaze the security post of the two-storey building.
The protesters broke the windows and glass doors and carted away all the properties in the building. The father of the suspected killer was also taken to the police.
Recall that Iniubong was recently found dead after she was lured with a fake job offer by Akpan. He allegedly abducted and sexually abused her to death before burying her corpse in a shallow grave.
The pretesting youth expressed dissatisfaction with the conduct of the accused person, which robbed the 26-year-old graduate of Philosophy from the University of Uyo of her promising life.
In the same vein, also on Tuesday, the students of the Faculty of Arts, University of Uyo, who were dressed in black outfits, protested against the gruesome murder of Iniubong and demanded that justice be served.
The students walked round the school campus in a solemn procession and called on the wife of the state governor, Mrs Martha Udom Emmanuel, to play her motherly role by ensuring that justice was achieved.
The leader of 2015 set of the faculty, Mr Unyime Anietie, vowed to ensure that their colleague’s death would not go in vain after labouring so hard to go through school.
He said: “Iniubong Umoren did not deserve to die; she didn’t have to die after all the stress she went through in school. We want to appeal to Mrs Martha Emmanuel to use her pet project, Family Empowerment and Youths Re-orientation Path-initiative to ensure that the perpetrators of such act are brought to justice.
“If this is what it will take for rape and all other forms of gender-based violence to end, then we appeal to all stakeholders to see to the end of this case.”
