The Police have arrested a Medical doctor, a hotel staff, uber driver, and two others for the alleged murder of a businessman, Chief Hyginus Odunukwe.
The suspects were arrested by the Zone 2 Police Command, Onikan, Lagos.
The prime suspect to the alleged murder, Dr. Bob Ibeji, gave a graphic account on how he conspired with three others, to kill Odunukwe, at Artisan Beach Resort, Ajah area of the State, on December 1, 2019.
The police gave the names of Ibeji’s accomplices as; Igwe, 26 , Cletus ,30, and Obigaremu, 35.
Ibeaji, who claimed that he studied Medicine and Surgery in Edinburgh, in United Kingdom, confessed that his intention of killing Odunukwe ,was to take over his landed property worth N900 million.
Ibeaji , who was paraded by Assistant Inspector -General of Police , in-charge of Zone 2 (AIG )Ahmed Iliyasu, yesterday , said, ” I killed Odunkwe ,because I wanted to take his property worth N900 million . I swear ,the man did not offend me ,it was just lust for material things that made me to kill him.
” On that fateful Sunday afternoon, I invited Odunukwe to Artisan Resort Hotel, to pay for the landed property that he advertised on social media. I instructed one of my boys to bring a bag for me. The reason for coming with the bag was to convince Odunukwe that I was carrying a large amount of money. After he signed the documents of the building that I pretended that I was paying for, I told him to come inside the hotel room so that I would give him the money. He followed me to the room, so when he came inside the room, I asked him to hand the documents over to me, but he insisted that I must give him the money before he would part with the document. At that point, one of my accomplices brought the bag that we used to convince him that was containing some money.
As Odunukwe bent down to check the money inside the bag, I hit him on his head with an axe and he slumped. We dragged him to the toilet; injected him with sedative and he slept off. It was my intention to use the document to claim the property and later sell it to another person “, he said.
AIG Iliyasu, who narrated how the suspects were arrested, said: ” Ibeaji, who claimed to be a Medical Doctor with the following qualifications and certificates: MBBS, Fellow Royal College of Surgery and member Royal College of Surgeon, all in Edinburgh, in the United Kingdom, as wells s an MBA in Zurich, is the kingpin of the syndicate.
” Investigation revealed that Ibeji had been living big with ill-gotten money for some time now. Two incidents that have been established against him were that of a city commissioner in Bayelsa State, Hon.
Depologa, who was murdered and his body was found along Abuja Expressway. This happened a week after his encounter with the victim at Ibeto Hotel, Abuja. During their discussion, Ibeji offered to give the victim N220 million for a block of flat situated at Durumi, Abuja. The victim’s wife had to flee from Nigeria, vowing never to come after the gruesome murder of her husband.
“The second victim was Jude Efule, a Property developer in Abuja . Efulue, also fell into Ibeji’s hands and he held him hostage in an apartment and forced him to sign a prepared document transferring ownership of the victim’s property to him. He also discovered that the victim had N9 million in his account. His plan was to kill Efule after sweeping his account. But with the help of neighbours who called the police ,Ibeji and his boys were apprehended and charged to court accordingly.
” It was Ibeji, who canvassed the late Odunukwe with a business idea to the tune of N900 million, following which they fixed an appointment at Artisan Beach Resort in Ajah.
