In May 2018, the body of 22-year-old Lorraine Onye was found in her Naval officer boyfriend’s official quarters in Borikiri, Port Harcourt, Rivers state, and her boyfriend LT.Abubakar Yahaya Yusuf was no where to be found.
At that time, it was suspected that LT. Yusuf had stabbed Lorraine, a 300 level student of Rivers state university, because she refused to accept a breakup from him, and he was on the run after killing her. But investigation has uncovered the truth behind Lorraine’s death. Investigation revealed that LT. Yusuf was not on the run, but had also been killed and burnt.
Operatives from the IGP-Intelligence Response Team arrested LT. Yusuf’s houseboy, Thaddeus Jaja, 28, following the death of Lorraine and the disappearance of Yusuf. During jaja’s interrogation, he confessed that he murdered Lorraine during an argument. Afterwards, in a bid to cover up his crime, he also murdered the unsuspecting officer by poisoning his drink with an overdose of a drug named “Talen”.
Thaddeus Jaja went on to send a text message with the late officer’s phone to a friend of Lorraine named Joy. In the message, Jaja wrote that the Naval Officer had murdered his girlfriend over a dispute, he then proceeded to dispose of LT. Yusuf’s body by driving it to a forest in Ubima where he burnt it.
After his confession, Jaja took the operatives to the forest where he burnt LT Yusuf and the officer’s carcass was found burnt beyond recognition. With the aid of a pathologist, the remains were recovered and deposited at UPTH mortuary.
Jaja above.
LT. Abubakar Yahaya Yusuf’s remains
A car and a phone belonging to the naval officer were recovered. The car had already been sold by Jaja to a buyer in Benin city and the phone had already been sold to a different buyer in Port-Harcourt.
