Imo Police Investigate Teen’s Fall From Owerri Building

Imo State police say 26-year-old Ifeanyi Chukwu Joseph is in custody after 17-year-old Chiamaka Chukwuokore fell from a two-storey building in Owerri, sustaining serious injuries. Investigators have not established how she fell, and police have cautioned against treating the initial allegation as proven. The incident occurred at about 1 p.m. on November 1 along Mbonu Ejike Street in the Ikenegbu area of the state capital. Police said Chiamaka was taken to hospital and remained alive in a coma and in critical condition, rejecting social-media reports that she had died. Police initially alleged that Joseph pushed Chiamaka after an altercation. Reports about the incident also alleged that he made a sexual advance she rejected, but police spokesperson Henry Okoye said that allegation had not been established. The command has not confirmed what caused the fall. According to Okoye, Joseph told investigators that he and Chiamaka had argued and that he went to answer a knock at the door. He reportedly said he then heard a noise at the back of the building and believed she had run toward the back staircase and fallen. Okoye said the account did not fully explain the circumstances....