Husband escapes assassins sent by banker wife

The long arm of the law has caught up with a female banker, Oluchi Tochukwu, and two suspected hired assassins, 32-year-old Chigozie Smart, and 36-year-old Kingsley Ikechukwu following a foiled plot to kill her estranged husband identified as Onyebuchi Tochukwu.

According to reports, Oluchi who had been married for three years and had a daughter, before the union crashed, masterminded the attempted assassination of her estranged husband by arranging and keeping the weapons used in the attack in the husband’s compound in Ajah.

While parading the suspects at the command’s headquarters in Eleweran, Abeokuta, the state Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Iliyasu said the two suspects attacked their victim with iron rods and machete before pouring acid on him in his compound in the Agungi area of Ajah in Lagos State, last Wednesday but he survived the attack.

The Commissioner of Police added that the suspects were intercepted at Ijebu-Ode area of Ogun State, while attempting to escape to Onitsha, Anambra State, with the would-be victim’s Range Rover.

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According to Iliyasu, “it was the smoke and the offensive odour that came out from the suit worn by the victim, when the acid touched it, that made the suspects to quickly abandon him and went away with his Range Rover SUV, which the wife instructed them to deliver to her brother in Anambra State.

“The estranged couple had been separated for a while, with the wife living with her father somewhere in Ayobo area of Lagos State.

“The husband had a date with a court today (yesterday) over the custody of their only daughter. Luck, however, ran against the suspected assassins when a Police Highway Patrol team flagged the Range Rover SUV down at the Ijebu-Ode axis of Lagos-Benin expressway for a stop-and-search operation, which led to their arrest.” He added.

But Oluchi, while fielding questions from newsmen denied contracting the suspects and another who is now at-large to kill her estranged hubby while also admitting that their three year-old marriage had crashed.

However, one of the suspects, Chigozie maintained that it was Oluchi that contracted them to kill her hubby Tochukwu, with a promise of purchasing cars for each of them if the operation sailed through successfully.

 

 

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