Following the gruesome murder of Miss Cynthia Osokogu, a post graduate student of Nasarawa State University and daughter of a retired general, the police in Lagos have nabbed two pharmacists. Cynthia’s killers, who were said to be her Facebook friends, reportedly drugged her with Rohypnol before carrying out the dastardly act in a hotel in FESTAC Town, Lagos.
Speaking on the update of police investigation on the murder, the command’s public relations officer, Ms Ngozi Braide, in a televised interview, said the pharmacists were arrested by her men upon discovery that they sold the drugs that killed the deceased.
Braide, however, refused to disclose the identities of the arrested pharmacists so as not to jeopardise the ongoing investigation into the matter.
Two undergraduates: Nwabufo Okwumo and his cousin, Odera Ezekiel, are currently being held in connection with their alleged role in the murder case.
The police public relations officer said the pharmacists acted against the law by selling the drugs to the suspects, adding that the law provides that such drugs must be sold only on a valid prescription from a medical doctor.
“As I speak to you now, the two pharmacists that sold these drugs to the suspects are in police custody, and they are assisting us in the investigations,” Braide said.
She said the investigation team, headed by an assistant commissioner of police, Mr. Dan Oko, made the arrests after posing as clients. “The police officer posed as a client, bought 10 packets of the drug without any request for doctor’s prescription. He sent another officer who also bought the same drug from them and in the end, they were taken in.”
Meanwhile, to forestall such ugly occurrences, members of the House of Representatives are poised to fast-track legislative debates in order to produce comprehensive cyber crime legislation for the country.
The planned legislation, which was introduced in the sixth legislative session, will provide a comprehensive, all-embracing Nigerian cyber security law to check cyber crimes on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and other social media platforms.