The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command on Tuesday shed more light on the death of Stephanie Terungwa, a female member of the National Youths Service Corps (NYSC), who was found dead days after she went missing in Abuja.
Terungwa and her one-year-old son were last seen in the Lokogoma area of the nation’s capital on April 14, 2022.
The news of her death had sent a wave of shock across the country, with the NYSC confirming that her corpse was found in the Maitama area of Abuja.
NYSC had in a statement at the time by Eddy Megwa, its Director, Press and Public Relations, gave a harrowing account of how Stephanie’s body was found dressed in NYSC Khaki trousers.
“The corpse was found wearing the NYSC khaki trouser with the face defaced beyond recognition,” Megwa had said.
The police later announced that three suspects had been arrested in connection with her death.
The suspects were Jenifer Tsembe, a 26-year-old female, Monday Simon (aka Black) a 36-year-old male, and Solomon Abu a male of about 35 years of age, all residents of Oguta Lake Street, Maitama area of the FCT.
The FCT police commissioner, Sunday Babaji, in an update on Tuesday, said discrete investigation revealed that the deceased resided in City Homes Estate, Lokogoma, with one Edward Achadu.
According to Bolaji, she left home with her one-year and five-month-old son and never returned home.
“A day later, the son was recovered at Holy Trinity Catholic Church upon a call placed through to one of the paternal relatives, he said.
“Discrete and painstaking Investigations by Tactical and Intelligence assets of the Command attached to the Homicide Section of the State Criminal Investigations Department led to the arrest of three suspects.”
The CP further stated that the suspects criminally conspired and murdered the victim to separate her from Edward Achadu, estranged lover of Jenifer Tsembe.
Speakig to reporters on Tuesday, Jenifer said the deceased only came to her house to collect phone the day she was found dead but denied any involvement in her death.
According to her, the male suspects were the ones that told her that they wanted to kidnap the deceased to demand ransom.
However, another suspect, who said he was a colleague of Jenifer, told reporters she invited him to help her scare the deceased from her man.
He said the only role he played was to open the gate for the late Corps member when she came to Tsembe’s house, and that he met two other men who tied the deceased before he departed from the premises.
Another male suspect also denied killing the deceased, but he held and tied her as instructed by Jenifer before leaving the house.
According to him, Jenifer called him up later in the night to come to her house, adding that he met the deceased in a terrible state bathed with acid.
Jenifer, he said, was crying and saying she didn’t know why she killed the deceased.
“She held my leg and was begging me to help her dispose off the body after which she called someone who brought a car for her, he said.
“The person left the car, which we later used to carry the body to where we dumped it at about 3am.”
He said Jenifer paid him the sum of N100,000 to help dispose of the body of the deceased.
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