The late Cynthia Osokogu will be buried on September 7 at Bebe, Ovia Agbor, Ika South Local Government Area of Delta State, the family has said.
Cynthia, a postgraduate student of Nasarawa State University, Keffi, was allegedly killed by friends she met on the social media, Facebook, at a hotel in Festac, Lagos, in July.
The suspected killers of the young woman allegedly lured her to Lagos on a phoney business deal and killed her in a hotel room.
Mrs. Joy Osokogu, who announced the date to the News Agency of Nigeria in Jos on Monday, advised youths to be very cautious of making friends with people that they did not know.
“The youths should be very careful, especially when they are making friends in the social media. Like we have seen in the case of my daughter, such friends may have ulterior motives.
Osokogu described her deceased daughter as “very industrious, hard working and a respectful child.
“She was my daughter, my friend and my sister. Her memory will never be forgotten because she touched so many lives positively in her short stay on earth,” she said.
Osokogu said Cynthia’s killers had demanded N20 million ransom from the family.
“The killers of my daughter demanded a ransom of N20 million from my son, Flt- Lt. Kenneth Osokogu,” she told NAN.
Osokogu disclosed that the killers sent her son, who is in Makurdi, a text message demanding that he paid N20million into an account which did not exist.
“The killers were not picking our calls; they only communicated to us via text messages.
“When my son got their SMS, he later replied them that the account number was fake and didn’t exist.
“He sent another message in which he said that if it was a case of kidnapping, he would like to speak with his sister before making any payment but the killers did not respond,” Osokogu said.
She said, however, that when she spoke with the suspected killers, they did not ask her for any money.
