Joan Egemba was r*ped and strangled to death
A 20-year-old student, Joan Egemba who enrolled for the 2016 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination in Ijebu Igbo area of Ogun State suffered cruel fate when she was abducted, r*ped and strangled to death by unknown rapists and her dead body dumped in the bush.
Joan, who bagged a National Diploma in Accountancy from the Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro, Ogun State, was said to have 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.
Just a few distance away from her centre, she was abducted. Her corpse was said to have been found in a bush at the back of a secondary school in Ijebu Igbo with cuts in her thighs and her clothes torn.
Her father, Emmanuel Egemba, narrated the sad incident.
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, also gave more details of what the rapists did to his daughter.
“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.
The Ogun State Police spokesperson, DSP Muyiwa Adejobi, confirmed the story and said investigation into the matter is still ongoing.
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