Yenagoa— Police in Bayelsa State have launched a manhunt for a man reportedly working with a construction company, over the alleged killing of a 27-year-old woman believed to be his lover in Kaiama, Kolokuma-Opokuma Local Government Area of the state.
The construction worker, according to indigenes of Kaiama community, allegedly strangled the woman to death at midnight, last Tuesday, and dumped her corpse close to the bank of a river.
By Samuel Oyadongha
It was learnt that the body was discovered by some indigenes, who had gone for early morning bath.
A community source said the corpse of the deceased woman was discovered at 6.30am.
The source said: “The corpse of the woman, whose identity is yet to be ascertained, was discovered by people going to take their bath.
How suspect escaped
“We discovered that after the girl was killed, her body was thrown into the water believing that she would be carried away by the current. But God wanted us to discover her.”
It was learnt that the construction worker, on hearing that the corpse of the deceased had been discovered, panicked, rushed to the company site across the Kaiama River, told his supervisor that his mother was sick and that he needed some money to travel.
He was said to have convinced his unsuspecting supervisor, who gave him N30,000 not knowing what his intention was.
Spokesman of Bayelsa Police Command, Mr. Alex Akhigbe, confirmed the incident.
He said men of the state Criminal Investigation Department, SCID, have launched a manhunt for the suspected killer.
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