On the line from Ikom, Vincent Mfeme Bassey, a relative of the deceased, told www.calitown.com that, Martha who ran a thrift saving scheme, was last seen alive on Friday last week when she went to one of the banks in Ikom to make a deposit after the day’s rounds. It was only late on Saturday, the next day, that friends and relatives discovered that Martha was missing. Martha’s family is said to have informed security agencies in the area as well as the state broadcasting corporation which immediately drew the public’s attention to the missing Martha.
It was further learnt that several search parties comprising security agencies and youths in the area combed Ikom and surrounding communities for several days but could not find the young lady. Her badly decomposed corpse was only discovered days later with her hands and legs bound as well as a few of her vital organs believed to have been taken.
In her native Yala, Ikom, family members and friends are said to be lamenting and cursing her murderers and “everybody is crying”, as Bassey put it. Her remains have since been buried.
