Uduak Akpan, the man who killed the job-seeking Philosophy graduate, Iniubong Umoren, has said that his intention was to rape the lady like he did six other job seeking ladies before her.
The rape attempt however went awry as the late Umoren fought back leading her assailant to hit her with a voltage stabiliser, which killed her.
Akpan made the revelation on Friday when he was paraded alongside his father by the Akwa Ibom State Commissioner of Police, Andrew Amiengheme.
Akpan confessed that he tricked the deceased to his village in Nnung Ikono Ufio, Uruan Local Government Area of the state, as he had done to six other ladies.
He recounted that as he was about to rape Umoren, she became violent and started beating him.
Akpan, a 200 level student of Public Administration, Obong University, a private institution in Akwa Ibom State, said he hit her with a stabiliser in self-defence, adding that he wouldn’t mind if justice took its full course on him.
He said, “What happened was that she came for the supposed job interview. I decided to use reverse psychology on her. I told her whether she could work as a secretary on a farm where hard drugs are kept. She said that she could. When she came I told her the farm was just a hoax.
“I told her that before we could even start, I would like to have sex with her and she agreed but she gave a condition that I should use a condom which I agreed. While I removed the condom she became furious and picked a stabiliser to hit me on my head. She bit my left ring finger.
“While I was bleeding, in a bid to stop her, I used the stabiliser to hit her. She fell and died thereafter. I have raped six girls under the guise of giving them jobs. I am not happy about what has happened.”
His father, Frank Akpan, a retired civil servant, denied knowledge of the crime until he was invited by the police.
Asked to comment on the kind of justice he expects in the case, Frank said, “I’m not happy about what my child has done. I don’t even believe this can happen to me after I had sent him to school and tried to bring him up. Justice can be done if the system permits.”
The Commissioner of Police, Andrew, said he decided to parade the suspect to debunk the rumour that he had committed suicide while in police custody
He gave the assurance that the police would ensure that justice was not only done but seen to have been done, adding that the police would not cover up any crime in the state no matter who was involved.
