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Oil and water don’t mix, but relationships on Facebook don’t follow that rule always.

In fact, such rule didn’t come into play when a 55-year-old devoted Christian widow, Janet Nnenna Ogbonnaya struck a friendship with a 38-year-old devil incarnate, Johnson Emmanuel, on Facebook.

Janet, a mother of five and member of the Presbyterian Church of Nigeria in Abuja, had 691 friends on Facebook.

According to the police, she got up-close and personal with Johnson and trusted him enough to pay him a visit.

It was a journey of no return.

Johnson had other plans besides friendship, and he clinically executed his evil plot.

Janet, a native of Ozuitem in Bende Local Government Area of Abia State who was fond of posting Christian messages on Social Media, made her last Facebook post on May 9. She was found missing five days after, along with her Toyota Highlander SUV.

While the family was making all efforts to find her, they received calls from Janet’s mobile phone.

But she was not the person at the other end.

Those who called with her line identified themselves as kidnappers.

They wanted N5million to set their captive free.

When the police received the report, they opened a case file on kidnapping.

Efforts to solve the mystery of Janet’s disappearance paid off when the Police Intelligence Response Unit led by DCP Abba Kyari deployed technology to track her mobile phone.

The trail led detectives to a community 733 kilometres away from Abuja where Janet had gone missing. It is a community in the Eastern Heartland, Imo State, known as Isiekenesi, at Ideato Local Government Area. That kept hope alive that Janet would be brought back home soon.

But things took a different turn when Johnson and two of his brothers were arrested at Isiekenesi – their hometown where they had taken refuge after committing the crime in Abuja. 

Detectives later found out that Johnson had enlisted his siblings to snuff the life out of Janet and bury her in a septic tank at the backyard of their residence in Abuja after she was lured from her home in Gwagwalada into their den.

The siblings were identified by the police as Gideon Emmanuel, 31, and Success Emmanuel, 27.

The suspects told detectives that they served Janet yoghurt laced with drugs and subsequently murdered her.

On June 4, the suspects led a team of investigators alongside pathologists to a residence at Wumba District, Lokogoma, in Abuja where the victim’s decomposing body was exhumed from the septic tank. The exhumed body was taken to the University Teaching Hospital, Gwagwalada, in Abuja for forensic examination. 

Janet’s Toyota Highlander has been recovered by the Police at a mechanic workshop in Apo area of Abuja where it had been repainted into a different colour.

Police spokesman, DCP Frank Mba told the Chief Detective magazine that the vehicle documents were fraudulently changed and ownership of the stolen vehicle criminally transferred to Johnson Emmanuel. 

“Investigations also revealed that the house where the deceased was killed and buried originally belonged to one of the suspects but was hurriedly sold-off to a third party apparently to obliterate evidence,” Mba said.  

 

Kyari and his boys were commended by the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Mohammed Adamu for a job well done. He reassured Nigerians that perpetrators of any form of crimes in the country would not go undetected and unpunished. He, however, enjoined citizens to be more security conscious and report any suspicious activities within their neighbourhood to the nearest police station.