Youths vandalise family house of job seeker's murder suspect

Youths from Nnung Ikono Obio in Uruan Local Government Area, Akwa Ibom State, stormed the family house of Uduak Akpan, murder suspect of slain job seeker, Miss Iniubong Umoren, on Tuesday evening and vandalised it.

It was gathered that the youths used heavy pebbles to vandalise the building after setting the security house of the one-storey building on fire.

It was learnt that the youths carted away all the properties in the building and took the father of the killer to the police.

The youths explained that their action was predicated on the alleged complicity of Uduak Akpan in the murder of the 26-year-old Iniubong Umoren, a graduate of philosophy from the University of Uyo.

One of the sources who preferred to remain unnamed said, “They broke the louvers and the glass doors with the help of heavy pebbles and sticks and carted away everything in the building”.

Miss Iniubong Umoren was lured on the pretext of a job offer, abducted and sexually harrassed to death by Uduak Akpan, the suspected serial rapist who is an indigene of Nnung Ikono Obio in Uruan Local Government Area.

The Youth President of the area, Etubom Sunday Essien, who spoke with our correspondent, expressed disappointment over the action of one of their own.

He said the action of manslaughter committed by the suspect, Uduak Akpan, is an offence which is not condoned in the community.

Essien however exonerated the Chairman of the LGA, Mr. Iniobong Ekpenyong, saying he played the role of a Chief Security Officer of the council by calling on the police to arrest the culprit.

Meanwhile, the Chairman of Uruan LGA, Mr Ekpenyong, has expressed displeasure over the claims of the police that “The suspect confessed to have told his local government chairman of his atrocity before escaping to Calabar and was never at any time handed over to the police by anyone”.

He said the statement which portrayed him as having concealed security information was capable of smearing his name.

He stated that as the Chief Security Officer of Uruan Local Government Area, he had swung into action when he learnt of the actions of Uduak Akpan so as to facilitate his arrest.

He noted that his efforts paid off as the suspect who had earlier hinted that he was at a location in Oron Local Government Area was later arrested by the DPO of Uruan.