Cynthia Udoka Valerie Osokogu’s death: Police says society can help with more information – Lagos PRO

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The Public Relations Officer of the Lagos State Police command, Ngozi Braide has said the only way the society could help the police is by providing information at the right time to the right authority, even as the Force is ready to take the suspected killers of a Ms Cynthia Udoka Valerie Osokogu last month in Lagos.

Ms Cynthia is a 24 year old post graduate student of Nasarawa State University who was reportedly lured into coming to Lagos to buy some wears by a Facebook friends and students as Ezekiel Odera, a 400 level student of Anambra State University, Uli and Okwoma Nwabufor, a 300 level accounting student of the University of Lagos (UNILAG).

Speaking at a television show monitored in Lagos by DigitalSENSE News on Television Continental (TVC), the first female PRO of the state warn the society to be security conscious in their daily activities.

Explaining the reason why the suspects of Cynthia Osokogu’s murder faces were not shown during the parade, Braide said such could only happen after they must have been proven guilty by a competent court. 

She affirmed that it would be against the rule of law if they are being paraded with full face identification before a court’s pronouncement on their stand.

She noted that since assumption of office as the PRO in Lagos that suspects faces are not shown to the press. She commended the efforts of the Area ‘E’ Commander of Festac Police, led by an Assistant Commissioner of Police, Mr. Damian Okoro, for the level of intelligence displayed in apprehending the perpetrators of this gruesome murder.

Ms Gbemisola Osadua, a female law student and former Students Union speaker at University of Ibadan advised cyber criminals to channel their energy and intelligence to something productive that would in turn benefit them, the society and the national economy.

“The parents have roles to play in the upbringing of an average Nigerian girl,” Gbemisola declared, adding that some set of students are not contented as a result of societal expectation as they want to use expensive bags and other fashion accessories whilst on campus.

Mrs Juliet Benite, president, Institute of Womanhood and Leadership, blamed media houses for the kind of shows they put on air. Just as she said most parents have failed and the media houses are not helping either, lamenting that what are shown to the public, especially on television during the day are music and movies without devoting like an hour per day to impact the lives of the youths in our society through pure education on value system.

“In case the parents are failing, the media should come in to help,” Juliet advocated, stressing that the world is becoming a global village while people are becoming viral. She also noted that parents do not care about what their children do online.

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