Ama Okeke, a workers of the Division of Safety Providers, Akwa Ibom State Command, has given proof earlier than the State Excessive Court docket sitting in Uyo.
The DSS officer who appeared in court docket because the tenth Prosecution Witness (PW10) instructed the court docket that the primary accused, Uduak Akpan, stuffed the deceased with black material to cowl her mouth and stop her from shouting.
Okeke who instructed the court docket that the primary, second and third accused individuals made their statements voluntarily on June 3, 2021, June 11, 2021, and September twenty third, 2021 respectively, added that each the primary and second accused individuals have been transferred to the DSS station alongside with their telephones used for detailed evaluation.
Okeke testified that in the midst of their investigation it was found that the primary accused individual (Uduak-Abasi Akpan) had a dialog with the late Iniubong Umoren.
"He further told the investigating team that he wrapped her (deceased) body with a blanket and with her mouth still tied, and the Jeans on her neck and buried her in the grave. He further told us that the incident happened between 13:00hours to 20:00hours on the 29th of April, 2021".The witness instructed the court docket that the primary accused additional instructed them that after burying the deceased within the shallow grave, he now went again to the place he killed Iniubong Umoren and cleaned the blood and tidied up the place in order that no person will know what occurred.
Okeke additional testified that in the midst of their investigation and likewise an interview with the primary accused, he instructed them that the second accused individual, Frank Akpan who's his father, was not round when the incident occurred.
Witness stated Uduak-Abasi instructed them that in the course of the early hours of thirtieth of April 2021, when he opened his Fb web page, he noticed information along with his image and that of late Iniubong Umoren trending that he was the one which kidnapped her.
"He (first accused) said he dropped the bag and phone of the deceased in the third accused person's house. He also said late Iniubong Umoren was not the first person he had lured to his house in Nung Ikono Obio," Okeke testified.
Okeke additional instructed the Court docket that with the confessional assertion of the primary accused his staff travelled to Calabar have been in a position to observe and recuperate the deceased, Samsung Galaxy telephone, including that two individuals who have been arrested in respect of the telephone are at the moment standing trial.
The trial Choose, Justice Bassey Nkanang, admitted the Samson Galaxy telephone tendered in proof by the prosecution and marked it as Exhibit 13.
Nkanang additionally admitted in proof two telephones belonging to the primary accused individual and two different Nokia telephones belonging to the 2nd accused individual and marked the 4 telephones as Reveals 14, 15, 16 and 17.
Nevertheless, the prosecution on the level of tendering the confessional assertion of the primary accused individual in proof, his lawyer, Samson Adula, raised an objection on the grounds that the assertion was not made voluntarily by his shopper.
Justice Nkanang adjourned the case until February 15, for a trial-within-trial to be performed to find out the declare of involuntariness of the assertion.