OUR DAUGHTER’S DEATH IS SHOCKING AND PAINFUL- CYNTHIA’S PARENTS
have described the dead of their only daughter as devastating, illogical and
highly incomprehensible saying though vengeance belong to God, those who
perpetrated the dastardly act should be brought to book so as to deter those
who take pleasure in killing innocent people at will.
Speaking at their ECWA Staff new GRA home at Farin-Gada
area of Jos, the parents in separate interview to newsmen further described the
late Masters Degree student as a very intelligent girl who was not playing
pranks but had a promising future, full of life.
According to the father, Major-General Frank Osokogu
(rtd), the dead of their daughter though painful and shocking has not been in
vain as it is a caution to youths who get to know friends on social media of
whatever name and venture to meet the unknown people.
Osokogu described the daughter’s action as an adventure
which was a bit too much.
However, the mother, Chief (Mrs.) Joyrita Osokogu who
said she had been of fasting since their daughter went missing disclosed that
she had some worry because the daughter was too fast in life and accomplished
so much in her young age that she had to caution her on the need to settle down
in marriage.
According to her, “My daughter had been very wonderful
and intelligent, she attended Command Secondary School, Jos where she won many laurels and she graduated from Nassarawa State University with good grades at the age of 21 and she read English
Education.
“She was Miss NYSC Batch ‘B’ 2010; she was a queen as
she was a runner-up in Miss Nigeria 2010 which she participated. She was
studying Public Administration in her Masters programme and just finished her
exam before she met her untimely death”.
The late Cynthia was working with the just folded up MTN
call centre in Jos and was running her boutique, Dress Code in Keffi in
Nassarawa State.
She stated that Cynthia was not living a rough life and
she was urging her to think about getting married and she promised she will
introduce her fiancé to the parents very soon.
Both parents confirmed they did not know about their
daughter’s death on time as her killers took her phone and kept promising them
that she was in a hospital which they gave the name as Symbol hospital in Benin but the hospital turned out to be a fake one.
Her killers eventually told the family of Cynthia’s
death and the MTN assisted the family in the tracking the area where the calls
were made from to Festac town in Lagos.
They said it was when friends whom she told of her trip
to Lagos to get her goods did not see her return on the appointed day
that they got worried and called the family.
Meanwhile, Miss Patience John, the sales girl who
assisted the late Cynthia in her boutique described her late boss as very
humane and always treat her well.
A condolence register has been opened in her family home
and sympathizers who had one good thing or the other to say about her were seen
signing the register.
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