From Stanley Uzoaru, Owerri

The Imo State Police Command has uncovered the decomposing physique of 36-year-old cashier of the Halim 633 Synergy Cooking Fuel Station, Toronto/Street Security by MCC Street, Owerri, Miss Pleasure Nwachukwu after she was declared lacking by her family.

The household of the deceased was stated to have reported her disappearance to the police on October 24, 2022, when she didn’t return from work and after fruitless seek for her.

A petition written by one Pastor Mrs Valuable Abara to the State Commissioner of Police, Muhammed Barde, and later referred to the State Prison Intelligence and Investigation Division (SCIID) for discreet investigation unravelled the thriller behind Nwachukwu’s disappearance.

An announcement by the police spokesperson, Michael Abattam, additional defined the incident thus: “The investigating workforce, on the 26/10/2022, at about 1200 hours, left the Police Headquarters to the scene of crime on investigation, armed with forensic tools.

“On arrival, preliminary investigation revealed that Miss Pleasure Uchechi Nwachukwu, who doubles because the secretary/cashier of the fuel plant, takes the weekly cash gross sales to the financial institution on Tuesday’s and manages the day-to-day operating of the corporate as a result of the proprietor who resides overseas entrusted the enterprise in her care.

“The unfolding revelations gave the workforce of detectives an perception into the puzzle surrounding the disappearance of the girl and an intensive search was made within the premises of your entire fuel station for clues.

“Sadly, nothing incriminating was found, therefore, they transfer to the again of the cooking fuel station. In the middle of looking, a blood stain was noticed on the wall of the fence, which made the workforce to suspect fowl play, therefore, they fastidiously and professionally traced the blood stain to an space the place dried grasses have been packed deceptively with two heavy stones positioned on them to create an impression that nothing has been accomplished across the space for very long time.

“However, the operatives weren’t fooled. They eliminated the heavy stones, the grasses and gently dug out the earth, alas, an offensive stench oozed out. Excitedly, they dug additional solely to find it was a shallow grave; inside was a shovel and a cutlass and the decomposing physique of Miss Pleasure Uchechi Nwachukwu.”

In the meantime, the physique has been exhumed and deposited on the Federal Medical Centre (FMC) morgue, Owerri, based on Abattam, simply as two suspects have been arrested and the police on the path of different fleeing suspects