The Delta State Police Command has paraded a 40-year-old man, Mr. Festus Chuka, and an accomplice, Evans Odiwe, for allegedly killing a businessman, Innocent Nwankwo, over N2m.
Nwankwo had paid Chuka the money to buy property for him in Asaba, the state capital,but instead of buying it, Chuka connived to murder the businessman and keep the money to himself.The duo got into an argument after Chuka denied receiving a credit alert from his bank,prompting the victim, who stayed in Anambra State, to inform Chuka that he would travel down to meet him in Asaba with a deposit slip proving that he paid into Chuka’s bank account.
Unknown to Nwankwo,Chuka had planned to kill him upon his arrival by paying gang members 100,000 naira.
The state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Muhammad Mustafa, told journalists that the two suspects were arrested after painstaking efforts by the police.
He said,
“Sometime in 2017, one Innocent Nwankwo, now deceased, of Nzemeghebo Crescent, Awada, Anambra State, paid the sum of N2m into a Diamond Bank Plc. account no: 0008438004, belonging to one of the suspects, Festus Chuka, for property in Asaba. But Chuka denied receiving the money.
“On January 5, 2018, the victim informed the suspect that he would come to Asaba with the deposit slip of the payment. The next day, Chuka hired the second suspect, Evans Odiwe, for the sum of N100,000 to kill the deceased on arrival at Asaba.
“On Sunday, January 7, 2018, when the deceased arrived at Summit Junction, Asaba, he met Chuka, who immediately took him to a pre-arranged lonely place, where the victim was killed by the duo of Chuka and Odiwe and others now at large. The suspects, who fled the scene after the dastardly act, were later arrested by detectives and they have confessed to the crime.”
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