Gloria Akpan
The family of a lady, Gloria Akpan, is currently battling her lover, Ita Eyo, for allegedly murdering their daughter who was 7 months pregnant at his residence in Ayobo, a settlement in Ogun State.
The two lovebirds who hail from Akwa Ibom State had been living together since March 2012 before the shocking incident took place on November 3.
According to a reliable family source, the late Gloria spoke with him on phone a day before her tragic demise. The source claimed that the deceased told him she was okay during the conversation.
The source said, “Without seeing any member of the family, that same Saturday, they hurriedly buried her.
“This is suspicious. The information we got was that she was strangled as she bled through her nose and mouth.”
According to Gloria’s father, Mr. Edet Akpan, a retired officer with of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, his late daughter did not complain of any sickness before her death, insisting that she was murdered.
The 66-year-old Akpan recalled that Eyo, earlier this year requested for his daughter’s hands in marriage.
According to him, a commercial bus driver, simply identified as Akintunde brought Eyo to their home at NDLEA Compound at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos to ask for his daughter’s hand in marriage.
The bereaved man said he told Eyo to come with members of his family for proper marriage procedures.
He said, “After that meeting, I travelled to my country home in Akwa Ibom. Since I have retired, I have been alternating between home and Lagos.
“While I was still in my hometown, my wife, Gloria’s stepmother, phoned me. She said my daughter had moved out of the house. I exclaimed, ‘move to where?’ She said she had gone to Eyo’s house.
“She also said it was Eyo’s friend, Akintunde that came to take her to the place.
“The news jolted me and I had to rush back to Lagos. When I came back, I set out to search for her whereabouts but my effort was unsuccessful as I neither knew the address of Akintunde nor Eyo’s.”
Akpan said he later got Akintunde on the phone.
He said, “When I got Akintunde on the phone, he handed the phone over to Eyo. After quarrelling with Eyo, I asked him to pass the phone to Gloria and he did.
“Gloria told me she was well and assured me that she would come home soon. I even asked of my grandson whom she took along with her and she said he was okay.”
The old man lamented that instead of his daughter coming back home alive, the news he got the following day was that she had passed on.
He said, “On Saturday, Akintunde and a woman, came to inform me that my daughter had died. I was confused. I took them to my elder brother’s house. My elder brother asked them to deposit her corpse in the mortuary for further action.
“The same day, I asked my son to go to Eyo’s house. My son told me that they had buried my daughter. This was done without the knowledge of any member of the family. We find the development curious. This is somebody he was not married to. That is why we believe my daughter was murdered for some sinister purposes.”
Akpan said another reason he suspected that his daughter was murdered by her lover was what Gloria’s son, who lived with them before the sad incident told him.
According to him, the child, which Gloria had for another man told him that on the fateful day, Eyo and his late mother had a squabble, which resulted to his step-father pulling something out of the bed and hitting her mum severally before she gave up the ghost.
The still mourning father said he reported the case to a nearby police station in Ikeja, Lagos where three policemen were ordered to arrest his friend, Akintunde.
He said that when Akintunde took them to Eyo’s house in Ayobo, Ogun State it was observed that the part where Eyo was living was within the jurisdiction of Ogun State Police Command.
Akpan further disclosed that he later went to Itele Police Station in Ota, Ogun State and some policemen were ordered to arrest Eyo.
He said Eyo is currently being detained at Itele Police Station.
According to a police source at Itele Police Division, the Commissioner of Police, Ogun Command, had ordered that the matter be taken to the state Criminal Investigation Department.
The source, who craved anonymity, said the Divisional Crime Officer confirmed that the suspect is currently in detention.
He added that since then, the late Gloria had refused to show up at the station.
“The matter is a murder case; the suspect is still being detained. The Commissioner of Police has directed that the matter be taken to the SCID, Abeokuta,” the source added.
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