The Benue State Police Command has arrested one person in connection with the gruesome murder of Mrs Eunice Aghanya, wife of retired Commissioner of Police, Ibezimako Aghanya and owner of Euniland bakery.
The command disclosed the arrest in a statement signed by the State Police Public Relations Officer, Catherine Anene in Makurdi on Sunday.
The Police had on Sunday confirmed the gruesome murder of the retired CP”s wife in her Makurdi residence by unknown persons.
According to the PPRO,” information was received on 13th March,2021 at about 0930 hrs that Mrs Eunice Aghanya wife to CP, Ibezimako of ( Rtd) who reside at Austin Iwar street off David Mark Bypass, Makurdi,could not be seen by her co- chiefs who had planned to pay a courtesy call on a Royal Father in Makurdi.
” Police detectives who received this report swiftly moved to her house where she resides alone behind her bakery. Her car was seen parked in front of her gate and her fence broken into but her doors were locked.
” The team noticed blood stains on the window of the deceased and curiously broke into the house where they found her lifeless body laying in a pool of blood with a deep cut on the head.”
Anene said her corpse has been deposited at Bishop Murray Hospital Morgue adding that” no stone would be left unturned to apprehend the culprits.’
