Police arrest suspected killer of varsity lecturer

The Akwa Ibom State Police Command on Tuesday paraded suspected murderers linked with various murders in the state.
Among those paraded at the state’s police headquarters in Ikot Akpan-Abia, Uyo, the state capital, is one Henry Silas, who allegedly killed the Head, Department of Pathology, University of Uyo Teaching Hospital (UUTH), Dr. Ivy Umanah.

Speaking during a briefing on Tuesday, the state’s Commissioner of Police, Murtala Mani, said Silas, 28, a native of Ikot Akpanwa Village in Ika local government area of the state, used a motor vehicle iron (car shaft) to hit Dr. Umanah on the head, thus killing her.
According to the police commissioner, the Pathologist before her death had given the suspect a tilling job to do in her apartment.
He said one Dr. Festus Abasiubong introduced Silas to the deceased after completing a designing work in Dr. Abasiubong’s house at Ikot Ntuen village along Abak Road in 2015.