One of them, Felix Akor, was arrested
for allegedly hiring assassins to kill Onyemaechi Eze in Enugu State, who
he suspected used diabolical means to kill his wife’s siblings. Akor was
arrested along with one of those he hired to kill Eze.
Another doctor was arrested in Delta
State for being a member of ritual killer gang. The gang tricked a commercial
motorcycle rider to a certain location, killed him and cut off his vital
organs.
The alleged killer, hired by Akor, is
identified as Idoko Onyekachi of Ifuroka Amalla in Udenu Local Government
Area of Enugu State.
Eze was alleged to be diabolically
responsible for the alleged mysterious death of two siblings of Akor’s wife,
Blessing and John.
While fielding questions from police,
Onyekachi confessed to taking part in Eze’s murder.
Onyekachi said Akor, a native doctor,
hired him and his gang for N200,000 and allegedly instructed them to
assassinate Eze.
The Enugu State Police Public Relations
Officer (PPRO), Ebere Amaraizu, a Superintendent of Police (SP), said that
Onyekachi was arrested by operatives of the Udenu Police Division, in
partnership with members of the public.
He said: “The suspect, who fled after
committing the offence, was arrested on September, 16, at Inyi in Igboeze
North Local Government Area of Enugu State through a well-coordinated operation
borne out of intelligence gathering.”
Amaraizu disclosed that Onyekachi, with
others still at large, murdered Eze on July 5, over
a yet to be established issue/issues. They escaped to avoid being nabbed.
The image maker said that the suspect
was now assisting operatives in their investigations. Amaraizu also disclosed
that Onyekachi had given insight on how he and the gang allegedly
collected the N200,000 from Akor to carry out the assassination.
He added: “The native doctor, Akor, has
been arrested by police operatives and is now assisting with investigations.”
Similarly, the Delta State Police
Command gunned down a member of a ritual killing group known as ‘Ghana Buggers’
in the metropolis. The yet-to-be-mentioned native doctor is part of the gang.
According to the police, the Ghana
Buggers ritual killers were linked to the death of a commercial motorcycle
rider. The motorbike rider’s organs were removed and his corpse dumped in an
undisclosed area on Sapele-Warri Road.
The commercial motorcycle rider was said
to have met his untimely death after two members of the ritual killer group
asked him to take them to Amukpe area of Sapele.
He was overpowered, killed and his body
dumped after his organs were harvested. The suspects were later tracked and
arrested. It was alleged that a member of the gang died in a shootout with
soldiers.
The native doctor, who is presently in
police custody, is undergoing interrogation, while another surviving member,
Emmanuel Ogbotor, was rushed to Central Hospital, Sapele after sustaining
bullet wound in the shootout with soldiers.
There was heavy security around the
hospital premises, with a crowd trying to catch a glimpse of Ogbotor.
Police source said the suspects were
arrested by soldiers of the 19 Battalion after a tip-off by men of the local
vigilance group. One of the kidnappers died during the gun duel, while others
were overpowered and taken to police station.
Recently, two suspected members of a
kidnapping gang were identified and gunned down in Sapele, two weeks after the
release of the wife of a Seplat Petroleum Company executive that was held in
kidnapper’s den for 42 days.
Ritual killings appear to be on the
increase in Sapele, Oghara, Jesse and its environs, with several persons
allegedly killed in the aforementioned areas. The situation compelled the
monarch of Jesse Kingdom and women to invoke a curse on perpetrators of such
crimes.
The women’s action was said to have
stemmed from increasing reports of murdered farmers and commercial cyclists.
The victims were believed to have been killed by the ‘Ghana Buggers’ group.
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