Man butchers friend in Akwa Ibom

Operatives of the Akwa Ibom State Police Command have arrested one Steven Onowa for allegedly murdering his friend, a middle aged barber, Daniel Bassey Solomon, around Itu Road, Uyo, the state capital.
Onowa, a graduate of Federal Polytechnic Oko, in Anambra State, was said to have murdered the deceased, who was his worker and employee, yesterday for refusing to account for the sum of N750, 000.
Following the act, the suspect was said to have attempted to escape but was apprehended with the aid of a GSM tracking device employed by men of the Police Force.

 

Reacting to the murder of the barber, an indigene of Uruan Local Government Area of the state, the state Police Commissioner, Mr Gabriel Achong, stated that Onowa, upon his arrest, confessed to the crime, saying he invited the deceased over to his house and offered him a poisioned drink.
Achong quoted the suspect as saying, “At about 3.00 a.m, I decided to kill him.
“I gave him the first cut, the guy got up; I gave him a second one and he died and I butchered him to parts,” the suspect confessed.

The police boss noted that there has been a quarrel between the two persons for the past two years, adding that their case file was still with the SARS department of the command.

He further added that the culprit was arrested through the assistance of his landlord who kept contacting him on phone, while the police kept tracking the calls.
The CP said, “After stabbing him to death, he used matchet to chop off his hands, head and two legs. He packed the parts in a sack, pulled it out of the house to the major street of Itu Road.”
The culprit was said to have abandoned the deceased in a bag, with vital parts removed, including his two hands, which he dumped in a place along School Road and the head, which he hid in an abandoned dump site in the area.
While confessing to the crime, the suspect said he had called his victim to meet him in his house where he drugged the deceased Orijin beer.
Reacting to questions from journalists, the culprit said he killed the deceased because he dared to raise his voice at him over his N750,000 which he refused to account for.
“We reported the matter to SARS about two years ago and he agreed on a time frame to pay up the N750,000. Till today, he has refused to pay the money. So when I invited him to my house that day, he started shouting at and getting angry with me, so I killed him. I am not dealing in body parts. I only cut him to pieces to be able to carry him,” Onowa added