Details have
emerged how a young woman was promised N10,000 for sex before she was strangled
to death inside a hotel room in Rivers.
The young
woman who was found dead in a Port Harcourt hotel on 15 August, after being
strangled by a stranger, has been identified as Jennifer Nwokocha, from Omoku,
headquarters of Ogba-Egbema-Ndoni council area of Rivers state.
Nwokocha was
found dead Thursday morning in a room at Grand Venice Hotel on Woji Road.
Her friends
who identified her claimed that she made an agreement for a night romp with a
yet-to-be identified man for a fee of N10,000 and the Nigerian barbecued beef,
popularly called Suya, as an extra.
Jennifer
Nwokocha who according to he friends,wrote the last UTME conducted by Joint
Admission and Matriculation Board,JAMB had nursed hopes of gaining admission
into University of Port Harcourt.
Narrating the
incident, they said the alleged killer came to the hotel at about 10 pm on
Wednesday night and offered to pay Jennifer N10,000, which to her was a big
deal.
The late
Jennifer’s friends later raised alarm at about 8 am the next day.
The killer
had also stolen her phone and her money before fleeing the hotel.
Detectives
from the homicide department of the state police command promptly arrested
Jennifer’s friends for interrogation.
Nnamdi Omoni
DSP and spokesman of the Rivers Police Command said a Task Force would be set
up by the Command to enforce the directive that CCTV Cameras be installed in
all hotels.