How UTME Student Was Raped & Murdered In Ogun

Parents of 20-year-old Joan Egemba, have been thrown into
mourning after their daughter was stabbed and strangled by some suspected
rapists in the Ijebu Igbo area of Ogun State.

Joan, who bagged a National Diploma in Accountancy from the
Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro, Ogun State, enrolled for the 2016 Unified Tertiary
Matriculation Examination.

Punch Metro learnt that the deceased left her home in the
Odo Eran, Sango-Ota area around 12pm on Thursday, March 3, for the National
Open University of Nigeria centre in Awa Ijebu, where she was posted to sit for
the exam the following day.

It was learnt that on Thursday evening, she was abducted at
the Ijebu Oru Junction – a few distance away from the centre – by persons
suspected to be rapists.

Her corpse was said to be found in a bush at the back of a
secondary school in Ijebu Igbo with cuts in her thighs.

Our correspondent was told that the briefs that Egemba wore
were torn, suggesting that her assailants were rapists.

Her father, Emmanuel Egemba, said she had called him on the
telephone on getting to the centre, informing him that the security guard
attached to the centre turned down her request to pass the night on the
premises.

He said, “On that Thursday, she left home around 12.30pm,
but the bus she boarded at Sango to the centre left around 2pm. She called at
5.30pm that she had arrived there, but the security man at the centre did not
open the gate for her and others to pass the night on the premises. I told her
to find a place in the area till the following day when she would sit for the
exam.

“Around 7pm, I called her again and she said the security
man had opened the gate for them. One hour after, I called again but she did
not pick her calls. She was supposed to sit for the exam at 6.30am on Friday. I
called her around 12pm on Friday, her phone was switched off. As early as 4am
on Saturday, I went to the centre to verify whether she sat for the exam or
not. I met the security man and he directed me to the JAMB office in Abeokuta.
He denied that he allowed my daughter into the school compound to pass the
night.

“It was a woman that told us that a girl was kidnapped at
Oru Junction and taken towards Ijebu Igbo. We later discovered her corpse on
Wednesday, March 9. If the candidates were allowed to sleep inside the school,
this incident would not have happened.”

Emmanuel, a retired Assistant Superintendent of Nigerian
Customs, said the loss of his daughter was hard to bear, but the family had
taken solace in God.

“I learnt it was rapists that killed her. Her body was not
mutilated, but she had cuts in the mouth and thighs. Her clothes and briefs
were torn and she had bruises in the back.

“We prayed before she left home on that day. While we were
praying this morning (Monday) I looked at where she used to sit and it was
vacant,” he said.

He stated that the deceased’s mother, Mrs. Chimemo Egemba,
was too distraught and could not speak with Punch Metro.