Uduak Frank Akpan, the alleged killer of late Miss Iniubong Umoren, a job seeker, has confessed to the crime and said he is prepared to die for it if this would assuage the aggrieved society.
Speaking on Friday when he was paraded along with his father, Mr Frank Akpan, at the Police Headquarters in Uyo, Akapn admitted to having lured and raped more than six girls through advertising for phony job vacancies.
He said he took the actions as revenge for how girls had been duping him but denied killing any other girl apart from Miss Umoren.
Umoren, a recent graduate in Philosophy from the University of Uyo, was killed when she went for an interview in what turned out to be a phony job vacancy advert by Akpan.
“When she came I told her this farm doesn’t exist that it was just a hoax. “I told her that before we could even start I would like to have sex with her and she agreed but she gave a condition that I should use a condom which I agreed,” said the 20-year-old and 200 level student of Public Administration, Obong University, Obong Ntak, Akwa Ibom State.
“While I removed the condom she became furious and picked the nearby stabilizer to hit me on my head. “She bit my left finger and tried to reach for the door screaming. While I was bleeding, in a bid to stop her, I used the stabiliser also and hit her. And when I hit her she fell and after she died,” he said.
In defending his evil act to Umoren and other ladies, Akpan said he had had “very bad experiences with runs girls and prostitutes”.
“I asked whether she can work on a farm that hard drugs are kept and she accepted. “She even told me she took marijuana and cocaine. I felt that that was the best way to revenge for the runs girls and prostitutes. I used to patronize prostitutes but now I don’t. “I am not happy about what has happened.”
He said that the commissioner of police has assured the people of the state and the “entire world that justice will take its course. If the justice promised by the police on the matter will mean my life being taken, I am prepared to die.”
On his part, the senior Akpan, a retired director in the federal ministry of lands, denied knowledge of the crime until he was invited by the police, even as he admitted that the house in which the murder was effected was his own.
There have been allegations that the suspect was assisted by his father in committing the crime, but he denied this, saying that his father was not around and never assisted him in killing the lady.
“I have not been around for 30 years. We Asked about his motive for inviting the lady to his family house when there was no job, the suspect responded; “Initially, I used reverse psychology on her.
just relocated because I have been retired. It is not even up to two years since we came back.”
