Imo State Police Command has arrested a 35-year-old ex-convict, Onyekachi Alozie and his wife, Oluchi, for kidnapping, murder, and burning the corpse of a 71-year-old man, Chief Precious Okorie.
The State Commissioner of Police, Mr Hussain Rabiu, while parading the suspects, disclosed that the deceased was kidnapped on November 12, 2021, as reported by the family members.
According to the C.P, the case was reported by family members of the deceased and the commander of the Anti-Kidnapping Squad, Oladimeji Oyeyiyewa, and his operatives to swiftly swung into action and arrested the gang leader, Agubata Maxwell Chimezie known as “THE BOSS”, while Oluchi was arrested on December 20, her husband was picked up on January 10, 2022 in Owerri.
It was gathered that the gang blindfolded Okorie, took him to their hideout in the forest, collected his Toyota car and ATM card and withdrew the sum of three million, five hundred thousand naira (N3.5 million) from his account,
C.P Rabiu, disclosed that the victim’s Toyota Camry car was recovered from an auto painters workshop where the gang leader went to repaint and resold it for the sum of one million naira (N1million).
Upon interrogation, Alozie confessed to the alleged kidnapping of the Chief for having a sexual affair with his wife and took the police operatives to the forest where the charred body of the deceased was recovered
“I’m an electrician by profession but went into armed robbery and kidnapping. I was at the Nigeria Correction Centre twice for kidnapping cases.”
” I was detained at the Nigeria Correction Centre after I was arrested and prosecuted by DSS operatives in 2018 but discharged by an Nkwerre High Court and released from prison in 2021.“
“When I was at the Nigeria Correction Centre, my wife Oluchi was visiting me and bringing food. I did not suspect her with late Chief Okorie.”
“She only told me Okorie was a Good Samaritan. Then one day, I overheard their conversation on phone, where Okorie was saying he was eager to see my wife.”
“I was angry and forced my wife to call the deceased to see her in the hotel.”
“My wife confessed to me that she’s been having a sexual relationship with the 71-year-old man in the hotel.“
“I threatened to kill my wife, and so she called him back and told him to wait for her in the hotel. I then arranged for him to be kidnapped.”
“My gang leader, Agubata Chimezie a.k.a “the boss” kidnapped Chief Okorie in his car and took him to the forest. I demanded a ransom of N20million but the family members paid only N1.5m as ransom,” he said.
“It was some of our gang members who did the job. They did not give me any share from the N1.5m ransom collected from the deceased’s family members, they promised to give me my share the second time that they were demanding another ransom from the deceased’s family member”.
While denying knowledge of how the deceased was killed, he however, confessed to have collected two hundred and ninety thousand naira (N290,000) from the sales of the victim’s car.
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