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Agent denies receiving bank alert of payment for property, kills client trying to show evidence

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Agent denies receiving bank alert of payment for property, kills client trying to show evidence

The long arm of the law has caught up with a 40-year-old man identified as Mr. Festus Chuka, and his accomplice, Evans Odiwe after they both allegedly conspired to kill their victim, Innocent Nwankwo.

According to reports, Festus who has been arrested by men of the Delta State Police Command had initially collected the sum of N2 million from the deceased (a businessman) as payment for the sale of a property in the state capital, Asaba.

But the suspect reportedly denied that he received an alert from his bank which triggered an argument between the two of them.

However, the victim who lived Anambra State told Festus that he would be coming to Asaba with a bank deposit slip showing that he had payed the sum into his account.

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Reports say the suspect then gave the deceased a meeting point in Asaba where they would resolve the issue, but unknown to the businessman, Festus had paid the sum of N100,000 to some hoodlums to kill him which they did upon his arrival at the meeting point on January 7th, 2018.

Speaking while parading the two suspects, Mr. Muhammad Mustafa, the state Commissioner of Police, said the pair were arrested following a painstaking manhunt.

The CP said; “Sometime in 2017, one Innocent Nwankwo, now deceased, of Nzemeghebo Crescent, Awada, Anambra State, paid the sum of N2m into a Diamond Bank Plc. account no: 0008438004, belonging to one of the suspects, Festus Chuka, for property in Asaba. But Chuka denied receiving the money.

“On January 5, 2018, the victim informed the suspect that he would come to Asaba with the deposit slip of the payment. The next day, Chuka hired the second suspect, Evans Odiwe, for the sum of N100,000 to kill the deceased on arrival at Asaba.

“On Sunday, January 7, 2018, when the deceased arrived at Summit Junction, Asaba, he met Chuka, who immediately took him to a pre-arranged lonely place, where the victim was killed by the duo of Chuka and Odiwe and others now at large. The suspects, who fled the scene after the dastardly act, were later arrested by detectives and they have confessed to the crime.”

 

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