{"id":67668,"date":"2018-12-06T23:58:47","date_gmt":"2018-12-06T22:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=67668"},"modified":"2018-12-06T23:59:34","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T22:59:34","slug":"father-of-slain-girl-in-port-harcourt-insists-suspect-must-marry-her-corpse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=67668","title":{"rendered":"Father of slain girl in Port Harcourt insists suspect must marry her corpse"},"content":{"rendered":"
Mr. Wilfred Nwovueze, has insisted that Prince Owabie aka J-BOY, the suspected killer of his pregnant daughter, Betty must marry her corpse.<\/p>\n

Nwovueze told newsmen on Thursday that the marriage is in line with a compulsory traditional rites of Ndele people in Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers State where the deceased hailed from.<\/p>\n

He, therefore, pleaded with security agencies to ensure that justice is done in the killing of his daughter.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want any problem. That girl is my daughter and what I want the Police to do is to allow this J-Boy of a man or his family members to marry my daughter before they bury her.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAll the rites that are due any girl of marriageable age in my community will be done so that there will be no calamity,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, the Rivers state Police Command has exhumed the body of Betty Nwovueze, the murdered girl friend of Prince Owabie in Rumuepirikom, Obio-Akpor Local government area of the state.<\/p>\n

DAILY POST reports that the suspect, Owabie led the personnel to his room where he buried his girlfriend in a shallow grave.<\/p>\n

Spokesman of the Command who was also at the scene said the body of the girl will be deposited in the morgue after which an autopsy will be conducted.<\/p>\n

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