Juliana Francis
Twenty-seven-year-old Moses, a Mechanical Engineering graduate, has told the police why he beheaded his 29-year-old friend, Abuchi Wisdom Nwachukwu.
The suspect said it was easy for him to trick, and killed Nwachukwu because they were close friends and the deceased trusted him completely. They were not just friends, but they also work at the same water bottling company in Auchi area of Edo State.
MOSES’S CONFESSION
I work in a table water company in Abely area of Auchi. I have been working in that company in the last four years. When Nwachukwu got a job in the factory, I was the person who taught him how to operate the machine and since then, we became close friends. One day, while at work, Nwachukwu told me his brother, who is based in South Africa, had been sending money to him to build a house for him. He showed me an alert of N13million, which his brother just sent to him. He told me that he would be travelling to his village to carry out the project. I became jealous and decided to steal the money. Since we were friends, it was easy for me to trick him into divulging his phone password. I went through his phone and discovered his ATM card Personal Identification Number. A few days to his journey to village, we worked on the same shift. I lured him outside the company and stabbed him to death with a knife. I dragged his body into the bush, but because I didn’t want people to recognise him, I cut off his head and buried it. I took his ATM card to some fraudsters, one of them is called Yusuf. I told Yusuf that I wanted him to assist me, so that we could hack the account. The account was hacked and we removed N2.2million from it. I later had issue with Yusuf because he and friends wanted to cheat me.
After I killed my friend, I travelled to Ore, Benin City. I stayed in several hotels and dated a lot of women, but then Nwachukwu’s ghost started disturbing me. Whenever I wanted to sleep, the ghost would appear to start crying. The girls I picked would run away, saying I wanted to use them for money ritual.
THE DISCOVERY
Nwachukwu’s headless body would later be found by policemen, but nobody could identify it. The corpse was moved to a mortuary. Meanwhile, Nwachukwu’s relatives in Imo State and his brother in South Africa had become frantic with worry over his disappearance. More worrisome was that his phone remained unreachable.
The deceased’s South Africa based brother, wrote a petition to the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu about Nwachukwu’s disappearance. Adamu was compelled to deploy his crack squad, Special Intelligence Response Team (IRT) headed by a Deputy Commissioner of Police, (DCP), Abba Kyari, to investigate the matter.
Some weeks into the investigation, IRT Operatives traced all POS transactions Moses made with Nwachukwu’s ATM card to Benin, Ore and Auchi areas of Edo State. The suspect was arrested in a hotel where he lodged and had been paying with the deceased’s ATM card.
First Published 2020
