Student drugged to death by friend on birthday in Ebonyi State. Image credit: PUNCH.
Uwana, April, 20, (Epicstorian) – Chinedu Hope, a student of Akanu Ibiam Federal Polytechnic in Uwana, Ebonyi State, was reportedly dead after being drugged up by friends on his birthday on Thursday.
The 23-year-old student of Ebonyi State Federal polytechnic, whose birthday was celebrated in Agbo Ibeku, Abia State, was drugged to death while hanging out with his friend, Dan, on the same day.
According to a report, the 23-year-old young man was persuaded by his friend, Dan, to accompany him to a retail illegal drugs dealer’s hideout, a place called Yoko in Umuodudu Ibeku.
The victim’s mother, Mrs Stella ogbonnaya said, “When Chinedu went inside, the operator of the hideout, Yoko, and four others who are also from Umuodudu were all in the hideout.
“It was at that time that Yoko ordered the rest to tie Chinedu with rope. Dan assisted them in tying him, both hands and legs, threw him on the ground, mixed the ice (methamphetamine) and jico, used a spoon to open his mouth, and poured the mixed substance into his mouth while hitting him with a hammer to make him swallow it.
Mrs ogbonnaya also added that Dan and his accomplices tried to bury Hope alive, while he died slowly struggling to undo the rope that he was bound up with.
“After he had swallowed all of the mixed substance, they took him to where they had dugged a pit and threw him into the pit,” the victim’s mother said, shedding tears, as she the reporters listened.
“He was struggling inside the pit with both hands and legs with the rope while he kept shouting ‘my stomach, my stomach.
“I gave birth to Chinedu on April 18, 2001; on Thursday was his 23rd birthday. Dan celebrated his friend’s (Chinedu’s) birthday with ice,” the mother lamented.
A police statement by the mother of the student, Mrs ogbonnaya, on behalf of the state Commissioner of Police, Kenechukwu Onwumelie, the PPRO said, “On 19/4/2024, the Central Police Station (CPS) Umuahia received a report from Hope Oluoha, a 52-year-old Male of Agbo Emede Ibeku Umuahia that on 18/4/2024, one Daniel Otuechere male 27 years old of same address took his son, Hope Chinedu Prosper, male 23 years old to an unknown destination and returned home with his lifeless body.
“The body was taken to the hospital where he was confirmed dead. Detectives from the Command visited the scene and the body has been deposited at the mortuary for autopsy.
“Suspects connected with the crime have been arrested, and a discreet investigation is ongoing,” it revealed.
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