*Cultists kill ex-policeman, drive nail into head
Operatives of the Inspector-General of Police (IGP),
Ibrahim Idris’s, Special Intelligence
Response Team, IRT, has arrested two men, Patrick Koyi and Chituru Ferdinand, for
allegedly kidnaping and beating a lecturer to death after collecting N1.1
ransom.
The IRT operatives, led by Assistant Commissioner of
Police (ACP), Mr. Abba Kyari, also arrested Sunday Ogbonda, 24, who shot a
retired Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) several time and still not
satisfied, drove a nail into his head to ensure was dead as a doornail.
According to police, Koyi and Ferdinand were
arrested for kidnapping and killing a lecturer, Emmanuel Chinasa Obi, working
with the University of Port Harcourt, on September 2016.
A police source said: “The late lecturer was
murdered by his kidnappers after a ransom of N1.1million was paid in two
installments to them. The kidnappers first received a ransom of N700, 000 from
his family while he was alive, then they paid an additional N400, 000 after he
was killed. When the kidnappers refused to release the lecturer, the family
became worried. The family sent a petition to the IGP on the matter. The IGP
instructed IRT operatives to investigate the abduction.”
The police source added that Koyi was arrested in Port
Harcourt, in possession of Obi’s Techno phone.
Koyi confessed to the crime and led operatives to
his home, where Ferdinand, whom he fingered as the mastermind of the abduction,
was arrested.
Narrating his role in the abduction of Obi,
Ferdinard said that his friend, Akika, from Akwa Ibom State, suggested they
should abduct the lecturer.
The lecturer attracted the suspects’ attention after
they discovered he was building a duplex in the village, at Rumuji Town.
Ferdinand said: “We talked about it. I told Akika
that we needed a gun; he invited Omega, who also called in Koyi. On the day the
lecturer was kidnapped, I wasn't around. I went to Port Harcourt Town. When I
came back, I learned the man was dead. I was given N50, 000. Koyi told me that
it was Omega that beat the lecturer to death, while they were in the camp. When
they realized the man was dead, Omega and Akiki moved his corpse out of the
camp, to another site for burial. I don't know how the police came into the
matter, but it was Koyi that brought them to arrest me.”
Speaking on the arrest of Ogbonda, a suspected cult
member, connected with the murder of the retired DSP, police said that Ogbonda
and his gang had been terrorizing Rivers State.
The police added that Ogbonda was arrested for
allegedly taking part in the January 9, 2017, murder of retired Deputy
Superintendent of Police, Mr. Ikechi Dornata.
Dornata died after a gang of cultists attacked him
in his home town, in Kono-Boun area
of Khanna, Local Government Area of
Rivers State. The cultists allegedly shot him several times, before driving a
nail into his head.
The reason the cultists targeted Dornata is yet
unknown. Before his retirement, Dornata was the officer-in-charge of the Rivers
State Police Command Armory. He held the position for 10 years before his
retirement.
Like Koyi and Ferdinand, Ogbonda was tracked through
the phone of the DSP, which he allegedly stole after killing him.
“He was tricked to a hotel in Port Harcourt Town,
where he was eventually arrested. When the phone was searched, a photograph
showing Ogbonda posing with an assault rifle was seen in the phone,” said the
police.
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