Two suspects are still being interrogated in connection with the murder of a female preacher in Kubwa in the Federal Capital Territory.
Speaking to Channels Television in Abuja, the Police Commissioner for the Federal Capital Territory, Mr Alkali Usman, said that eight people were arrested but that six were released after investigations revealed that they had nothing to do with the death.
However, he did not reveal the identity of those arrested.
Mr Usman dismissed reports that the killing had a religious connotation.
He had ordered the Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of Criminal Investigation and Intelligence to lead a discreet investigation into the murder.
Deaconess Eunice Olawale was killed in the early hours of Saturday, July 9 while she was preaching on the street in the Gbazango Area of Kubwa Satellite Town in Bwari Area Council in the nation’s capital.
