Missing NSCDC officer’s body found in shallow grave after 18months, fiance arrested

The remains of Josephine Onche, a female officer of Nigerian Security and Civil Defense Corps, NSCDC, who went missing in December 2019, few days to her wedding ceremony, has been found in a shallow grave in Obi Local Government Area, LGA, of Benue State.

It would be recalled that the family of the lady who hailed from Otukpo LGA, had at the time reported that she had gone to the market to purchase things for the ceremony, only for her to get missing.

The victim, a daughter of the former Mayor of Otukpo, Inalegwu Onche was found in a shallow grave, allegedly used for ritual purposes by her proposed husband.

A source revealed that, “an okada man who knew what happened to late Cynthia Onche went to her family members and gave them the news.

“He led them to arrest her proposed Igbo husband who led the police to Ogun State where they arrested a native doctor, a Yoruba man, who performed the ritual at Obi Local Government Area before he later relocated to the South West.

“Both the proposed husband and the native doctor have confessed to committing the crime and are presently in police custody in Otukpo,” he said.

He disclosed that the family members of the late security personnel have already exhumed her remains for proper burial.

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