The assailants who murdered the wife of a retired Deputy Inspector General of Police, Ibezimako Aganya, forcibly broke into the fence of her residence on Austin Iwar Street, Makurdi, Benue State, before snuffing life out of her, the police said on Sunday.
Detectives who raced to the her residence shortly after the crime was committed, found her car parked in front of her gate and noticed bloodstains on a window in the apartment, a discovery that propelled them to break in.
When they eventually gained access into the apartment which had all the doors locked, the cops discovered the lifeless body of Mrs. Eunice Aganya in a pool of her blood with a deep cut on her head.
In a statement on Sunday, Catherine Anene, a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) and spokesperson for the Benue State police command gave the chilling details of puzzling murder the police are trying to unravel.
The police said the deceased lived alone in her residence where she was gruesomely murdered by yet-to-be-unidentified assailants, and the alarm was raised after she was not seen by some of her fellow chieftaincy title holders with whom she was scheduled to pay a courtesy call on a monarch in Makurdi on the ill-fated day.
“Police detectives who received this report swiftly moved to her house where she resides alone behind her bakery. Her car was seen parked in front of her gate and her fence broken into but her doors were locked. The team noticed blood stains on the window of the deceased and curiously broke into the house where they found the lifeless body laying in a pool of blood with a deep cut on the head”.
Anene said one suspect has been arrested in connection with the crime, and gave assurance that efforts had been intensified to arrest the perpetrators.
Meanwhile her body has been deposited at the mortuary of Bishop Murray Hospital in Makurdi.
