Hoodlums have raped and murdered a 24-year-old woman, Joy Onoh in Makurdi, Benue state.
The incident happened on Wednesday. around the North Bank Area of Makurdi, the state capital.
The deceased was a graduate of Mass Communication from the Benue State University awaiting call up from the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC).
She was said to have received a call from someone to come to a particular place at North Bank, a suburb of Makurdi to supply clothes.
The mother of the deceased, Mrs Grace Onoh, a widow with three children and native of Obollo Afor, Enugu State, told journalists that Joy who was her first child told her that she was going to the North Bank to supply clothes to some people.
Mrs Onoh, who lost her husband 12 years ago, said her daughter had been struggling to send herself to the university through the little business.
The family lives off Adikpo Street behind NUJ secretariat Makurdi.
“Joy left home on Tuesday to deliver Turtle Neck cloth to some persons at Federal Housing, North Bank.
“She left the house at about 4.50pm and did not return again. I made frantic efforts to call her phone but someone busied it. Her sister Cynthia called and this time, it went through but she cried and asked her sister to send her bank details.
“I reported the matter to the Police that night but they asked me to come back the next day. The next day, they told me to wait till after 24 hours only to hear by 5pm that her body was found at Federal Low Cost in North Bank,” she said.
The spokesperson of the state police command, DSP Catherine Anene, said a case of a missing person was reported to them and a search was conducted.
Anene said Joy’s corpse was discovered at about 7am in a bush at the Federal Low Cost on Wednesday.
