After almost ninety agonizing days of waiting for the Police to unravel the mystery behind the disappearance of our sister and daughter, Ms. Comfort Uwakwe since October 25, 2025, we, the members of Owalla Town Development Union, Lagos branch, are left with no option than to call the attention of the public to this matter.
Ms. Comfort Uwakwe, a native of Owalla Autonomous Community, in Owerri North Local Government Area of Imo State, resident at 1, Olusegun Close,Off Eliasau Street, Mafolokun- Oshodi, Lagos, according to her sister, on the 25th Of October, 2025, went to visit a friend, Olajide Akeushola, in Epe.
On getting to her destination, she put a call through to her female friend (Ifeoma) that she had gotten to her destination and had seen the friend she went to visit. By 10:08 p.m, of the same day, Comfort made a distress call to Ifeoma informing her that she was locked in a room and was in danger, before her phone went off and nobody has heard from her till date.
On the 27th Of October 2025, the family reported her as missing at Makinde Police Station, Oshodi. An IPO was assigned to the case but the family members were told to go to Epe Police Station since she was last seen in Epe.
On getting to Epe Police Station to lay the complaint, they were referred back to Makinde Police Station.
On October 28, 2025, investigation into the matter commenced at Makinde Police Station and on November 26, 2025, the boyfriend, Olajide Akeushola, whom Comfort had gone to visit was arrested in Epe and was taken to Makinde Police Station, from where he was transferred, as a suspect, to Lagos State Command (Special Squad), Ikeja, on November 28, 2025, and an IPO was assigned to the case.
The suspect has since confessed that he met with Comfort in Epe on the day she was last seen by the family. Part of his confession was that they had some drinks and when she got tipsy, he had to lock her in the hotel room where they went. He also told the police that she later had an accident along the Epe highway. According to him, a trailer crushed her on the highway. Thereafter, the police said they had been taken to the scene of the accident by the suspect where they picked a leg said to be the only remains of Comfort; after one month that the said accident occurred.
The family had insisted, immediately they saw the picture of the leg, that it was not Comfort’s leg; making the police to demand for an autopsy and DNA to be carried out on the leg, and that the family will bear the cost.
This development has not only traumatized the family but has left a lot of questions unanswered:
- Whose leg was picked by police?
- If it’s Comfort’s leg, as claimed by the suspect (And the police seems to believe him) where are the other parts of parts of Comfort’s body?
- If Comfort was locked in the hotel room, as claimed, how did she escape to the “highway” where, according to the suspect, she was said to have been crushed by a speeding truck?
- What are the hotel staff on duty on fateful day saying? escaped to the Epe highway from the hotel room where she was locked, was there evidence of the door or window of the room being forced open?
- Why is the police holding on to the ‘accident’ story of the suspect, and are not looking at other possibilities like ritual murder (Given the sudden appearance of a leg without a body).
- Why is the “leg of an accident victim” still intact at the accident scene for several weeks, and not rotting when it was discovered?
These and more questions are begging for answers that are critical for the sake of justice. There need for due diligence in the investigation, on the part of the police, before it is concluded.
This is for the Nigerian public to note.
Anyone with any useful information regarding the missing person should kindly report to the police or contact the following numbers:
0913 061 0045
0706 290 3832
Signed:
Chiedozie Nzeh
(President, Owalla Town Development Union, Lagos branch).
