Man Haunted By Friend’s Ghost He Killed For N13m

By Chuks Ekpeneru

Operatives of the Intelligence Response Team (IRT), headed by Abba Kyari, a Deputy Commissioner of Police, have arrested a 27-year-old man, Moses for killing his friend and stealing N13million in his account.

Moses, a Mechanical Engineering graduate of Auchi Polytechnic and a native of Auchi, was informed by Abuchi Wisdom Nwachukwu that his South-Africa based elder brother sent him N13 million for the completion of his (elder brother’s) housing project back home in Nigeria.

Nwachukwu, a native of Isiala-Mbano, Imo State and Moses worked in a table water company in Auchi, Edo State.

Police investigation revealed that the murder was committed on January 7, 2020, during a night shift.

Thereafter, Moses took possession of Nwachukwu’s phone and ATM card.

This is after he had beheaded Nwachukwu’s lifeless body and dumped it in a bush close to the company.

It was alleged that Moses took the latter’s phone and ATM card to some internet fraudsters in Auchi who helped him to withdraw the sum of N2.2 million from Nwachukwu’s account.

He also went on a spending spree as he withdrew money at various POS points in the city.

The police were puzzled when they found Nwachukwu’s headless body but could not identify him. They took the body to the mortuary while Nwachukwu’s relatives in Imo State as well as his brother in South Africa worried about his sudden disappearance and their inability to reach him on the phone.

Based on a petition by the South Africa based brother to the Inspector General of Police, Adamu Mohammed, months after he could not locate his brother or hear from him, the IRT swung into action to unravel the mystery behind Nwachukwu’s disappearance.

In the course of investigation, the IRT operatives were able to trace the POS transactions Moses did with Nwachukwu’s ATM cards to Benin, Ore and Auchi parts of Edo State.

He was later arrested in a hotel in Auchi where he was hiding.

Upon interrogation, Moses admitted killing Nwachukwu. He also led IRT operatives to arrest suspected internet fraudsters—Yusuf Sagiru, Tony Bright and Terence Okochukwu—as well as businessman Jahswill Ogbonnaya, who were said to have helped Moses to pull out the sum of N6 million from the account.

In an interview, the suspect said: “I work in a table water company in Abely area of Auchi, and I have been working in that company in the last four years.

“When Nwachukwu got a job in the factory, I was the person who taught him how to operate the machine, so we became very close friends.

“While we were working, Nwachukwu told me about his brother who lives in South Africa and how he has been sending money to build his house for him.

“He showed me the alert for the N13 million his brother had just sent to him, saying that he would be travelling to his village to carry out the project. I felt jealous and I decided to steal the money.

“Since we were friends, I tricked him and collected his phone password. I went through it and found the PIN for his ATM card.

“Few days before the day he would be travelling, we worked on the same shift. I lured him outside the company, stabbed him with a knife and killed him.

“I dragged his body into the bush, and because I don’t want people to recognise him easily, I cut off his neck and buried it. Then I took his ATM card to some fraudsters. I gave it to one Yusuf and told him that I needed to hack the account.

“We withdrew N2.2 million from the account. I had trouble with Yusuf because he and the people he brought in wanted to cheat me.

“I killed him on January 8, 2020 and travelled to Ore and Benin City. I stayed in several hotels and was carrying different women, but Nwachukwu’s spirit started disturbing me.

“Whenever I want to sleep, the boy’s spirit will appear to me and will be crying. The girls that were with me would run away, saying that I want to use them for money ritual.”

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