Following months of investigation, a 29-year-old man has been discovered to have paid the supreme price for telling his friend about a heavy sum his South Africa based elder brother sent to him for the completion of his (elder brotherâs) housing project back home in Nigeria.
According to report, Abuchi Wisdom Nwachukwu, was allegedly murdered by Moses, his friend and colleague, after informing the latter that his elder brother had sent him the sum of N13 million to complete his housing project.
Nwachukwu, a native of Isiala-Mbano, Imo State, was allegedly hacked to death by Moses on January 7, 2020, during a night shift at the table water company where they worked in Auchi, Edo State, after which he took possession of Nwachukwuâs phone and ATM card.
Moses also went on to behead Nwachukwuâs lifeless body so that it would be recognized, dumping the headless body in a bush close to the company.
After getting rid of Nwachukwu, Moses took the latterâs phone and ATM card to some internet fraudsters in Auchi who helped him to withdraw the sum of N2.2 million from Nwachukwuâs account.
Thereafter, Moses approached various POS points in the city to withdraw various sums of money.
The police were puzzled when they Nwachukwuâs headless body but could not identify him. They took the body to the mortuary while Nwachukwuâs relatives in Imo State as well as his brother in South Africa worried about his sudden disappearance and their inability to reach him on the phone.
His South Africa based brother was said to have written a petition to the Inspector General of Police, Adamu Mohammed, months after he could not locate his brother or hear from him. Operatives of the Intelligence Response Team (IRT), headed by Abba Kyari, a Deputy Commissioner of Police, swung into action to unravel the mystery behind Nwachukwuâs disappearance.
It was gathered that weeks into their investigation IRT operatives were able to trace the POS transactions Moses did with Nwachukwuâs ATM cards to Benin, Ore and Auchi parts of Edo State.
They later arrested him in a hotel in Auchi where he was hiding.
Upon interrogation, Moses admitted killing Nwachukwu. He also led IRT operatives to arrest suspected internet fraudstersâYusuf Sagiru, Tony Bright and Terence Okochukwuâas well as businessman Jahswill Ogbonnaya, who were said to have helped Moses to pull out the sum of N6 million from the account.
Upon interrogation, Moses a 27-year-old native of Auchi, said his friendâs ghost had been hunting him since the day he killed him.
The Auchi Polytechnic graduate of Mechanical Engineering said: âI work in a table water company in Abely area of Auchi, and I have been working in that company in the last four years.
âWhen Nwachukwu got a job in the factory, I was the person who taught him how to operate the machine, so we became very close friends.
âWhile we were working, Nwachukwu told me about his brother who lives in South Africa and how he has been sending money to build his house for him.
âHe showed me the alert for the N13 million his brother had just sent to him, saying that he would be travelling to his village to carry out the project. I felt jealous and I decided to steal the money.
âSince we were friends, I tricked him and collected his phone password. I went through it and found the PIN for his ATM card.
âFew days before the day he would be travelling, we worked on the same shift. I lured him outside the company, stabbed him with a knife and killed him.
âI dragged his body into the bush, and because I donât want people to recognise him easily, I cut off his neck and buried it. Then I took his ATM card to some fraudsters. I gave it to one Yusuf and told him that I needed to hack the account.
âWe withdrew N2.2 million from the account. I had trouble with Yusuf because he and the people he brought in wanted to cheat me.
âI killed him on January 8, 2020 and travelled to Ore and Benin City. I stayed in several hotels and was carrying different women, but Nwachukwuâs spirit started disturbing me.
âWhenever I want to sleep, the boyâs spirit will appear to me and will be crying. The girls that were with me would run away, saying that I want to use them for money ritual.â