Police Arrest Man For Allegedly Procuring Abortion For Deceased Girlfriend

CYRIACUS IZUEKWE

Police operatives attached to Ikorodu Division of the Lagos State Command have arrested one man, Wisdom Okoro, 50, from Orlu in Imo State, for the sudden death of his girlfriend, one Enobong Udoh, f, 38, on 11th April, 2021,at 10.45am.

P.M.EXPRESS reports as disclosed by the PPRO, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi. 

He said that one Blessing Pius, f, of No 46, Adegboruwa Street, Igbogbo, Ikorodu, reported to the Police that the deceased was found dead in her house, opposite Meras Hotel, along Igbogbo Road, Ikorodu, on 11th April,2021, at about 10am. The Police operatives swung into action and invited her boyfriend for interrogation where he, Wisdom Okoro, confessed that the deceased informed him that she was pregnant in February, 2021 and he was in her house to check on her on 10th April, 2021, at about 5.14pm when the deceased informed him that she had terminated her pregnancy.

The statements and utterances of Wisdom revealed that he had some questions to answer. The Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, CP Hakeem Odumosu, has ordered that he should be transferred to the  Homicide Section of the State Criminal Investigation Department, Panti, Yaba for further investigation.

The Commissioner of Police therefore, assured the general public, especially Lagosians, of thorough investigation into the cases for justice to prevail.