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One Moses Moses, who works in a bottle water factory in Auchi, Edo State have allegedly killed his colleague – friend Wisdom Nwachukwu over 13 million naira.
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City Round learnt that Nwachukwu showed Moses a credit alert of N13m that his brother based in South Africa sent to him to execute a building project at their hometown in Imo State on his behalf.
The Culprit during a night shift lured his victim to a deserted location and knifed him to death, he then fled with the victim’s phone and ATM
He took the ATM and phone to some internet fraudsters in Auchi who helped him to withdraw N2.2 million from the account.
Nwachukwu’s family became worried when as they did not see him and couldn’t reach him on the phone.
The family if the deceased reported the case of a missing person to the police and a petition was addressed to the Inspector-General of Police Adamu Muhammed, who instructed IRT Intelligence Response Team to investigate the incident.
IRT operatives tracked POS transactions Moses carried out with Nwachukwu’s ATM card and arrested him in a hotel where he was hiding.
“During interrogation, his confession to the crime led the operatives to arrest some Internet fraudsters, Yusuf Sagiru, Tony Bright, Terence Okochukwu and a businessman, Jahswill Ogbonnaya, who assisted him in withdrawing a total sum of N6m from the account,” a police source said.
Speaking with City Round during the week, 27-year-old Moses, who hails from Auchi, said he committed the crime out of greed, lamenting that his friend’s ghost had been hunting him since he was killed.He said, “I work in a bottle water company in Abely area of Auchi and I have been working in that company for four years. When Nwachukwu got a job in the factory, I was the one who taught him how to operate some machines and we became close friends.“While we were working in the company in January 2020, Nwachukwu told me about his brother who lives in South Africa and how he has been sending money to him to build a house for him. He showed me an alert of N13m which his brother just sent to him and that he would be travelling to their village to carry out the project.“I was envious of him and decided to steal the money. I tricked him, collected his phone password and went through it. I found his ATM card pin and on January 8 when we were both on duty, I lured him outside the company and stabbed him with a knife.”
Moses explained that he dragged the deceased body into the bush and cut off his head so that he would not be easily recognised.
He added, “I buried it and took his ATM card to some fraudsters. I gave it to someone who hacked the account and stole N2.2m. I had trouble with Yusuf because he and his gang members wanted to cheat me.“I stayed in several hotels in Ore and Benin City and spent nice time with women. My friend’s spirit started disturbing me. Whenever I wanted to sleep, his spirit would appear to me and he would be crying. I regret my actions now.”
One of the arrested accomplices, Ogbonnaya, 29, a native of Arochukwu in Abia State and graduate of computer science, said he only helped to transfer N1m from Nwachukwu’s account through one Alhaji in Lagos who collected N400, 000 as his commission.
He stated, “I sell electrical materials in Aba. Some friends brought an ATM card to me and asked me to help them withdraw money with it. I used the card to make a purchase and used the authentication number to credit my paystack wallet with the card.“I took just N1m from it and contacted my friend who lives in Lagos. He linked me up with one Alhaji who gave me his account. He took N400, 000 as his commission and the remaining N600, 000 was sent to the friends who brought the card through Tony.“It was on July 3, 2020 that I was arrested. Tony had called me for another deal unknown to me that he was with the police. I was arrested when I showed up.
