Cynthia: Court grants two suspects bail, remands driver

A Yaba Chief Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday granted bail to two suspects arrested in connection with the alleged murder of Cynthia Osokogu,

But the driver who was accused of driving the prime suspect to Cosmilla Hotel, FESTAC, was remanded in prison custody.

The suspects granted bail – Nonso Ezike (22), who is the younger brother to Olisaeloka, one of the alleged killers, and Ezeaka Chinonso (27) – were arrested by policemen at Area E for receiving and selling Cynthia’s BlackBerry phone.

The two counts read, “That you Ezike Nonso Ifechukwu and Ezeaka Chinonso, sometime in the month of July 2012, at 93 Tedi/Memo Road Abule-Osun, Lagos in the Lagos Magisterial District did conspire among yourselves to commit felony to wit: receiving robbed/stolen property thereby committed an offence and punishable under Section 409 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.

24-yr old CYNTHIA OSOKOGU reported missing, found DEAD!-

Miss Cynthia Udoka Osokogu, a post graduate student of Nasarawa State University, had been missing since the 24th of July. She reportedly traveled to Lagos in July and hasn’t been heard from since then. She’s the daughter of Major General Frank Osokogu RTD.

According to reports her body was found on Sunday in a Lagos mortuary even though another report has it that she was murdered in a Lagos Hotel room.

Whatever the truth might be, it is so sad that the young lady is gone.

Here is what her friend, Sefiya who broke the news on twitter said: I wld like2thank u all4ur help in findin Cynthia Osokogu, wiv much sadness in my hart I announce d passin away of my sista&frnd.May she RIP.

This has remained Sefiya’s last words ever since she tweeted about it this afternoon. Cynthia was 24.