Father of late Cynthia Osokogu, Retired Major General Frank
Osokogu, has expressed confidence in Nigeria’s judiciary, saying that he was
sure justice would be done in the case of his daughter’s death.

The late Cynthia was found dead in a hotel room in Lagos on
July 26, after she was declared missing by her family three days earlier. She
was allegedly killed by her assailants on July 22.

Four suspects, including two university undergraduates, were
later arrested in connection with the incident and the case had been taken to
court.

The remains of the late Cynthia were committed to mother
earth on Friday at Owa Ekei, Agbor, Delta State.

Speaking to newsmen at the burial, the father of the
deceased said that he was impressed with the way the investigation and court
process of his late daughter were handled.

He commended the police for what he described as “wonderful
job so far’’, and urged the force to always rise to occasions that needed its
professionalism in order to make the force a true friend of the public.

He said that the death of Cynthia, who would have been 24
years in November, had created a big vacuum in his family but stated that the
family had no choice than bear the loss.

“Life must go on because what you cannot change, you will
accept,’’ he declared, and commended the media for their support and appealed
for demonstration of the same zeal in covering the court proceedings on the
case.

The Tide reports that the remains of the late Cynthia,
conveyed in a Volvo ambulance with registration number LY 616 EKY, arrived at
her father’s compound at Agbor at 2.55 p.m.

Her remains were interred in the compound at 3.55 p.m. after
a brief Christian ceremony conducted by Rev. Fr. Leonard Biachi, the Parish
Priest of Saint Dominic’s Catholic Church, Boji Boji, Owa.

The Tide recalls that the first attempt to bury the late
Cynthia on September 7 was aborted when the police were said to have refused to
release her body on grounds that they had not concluded autopsy on it.

But a funeral mass scheduled for the day was conducted and
persons who had arrived for the burial attended the mass and later commiserated
with the family.

Guests at the September 7 aborted burial included Governor
Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, Dr Festus Okubor, Chief of
Staff, Government House, Asaba and top military personnel and traditional
chiefs in the area.

Until her death, Cynthia was a post-graduate student at the
Nassarawa State University, Keffi, where she obtained her first degree.