Kenechukwu Eze, who was
arrested by police operatives in connection to the murder of the Chairman of
the Nigerian Bar Association, Udenu branch, Enugu, Emmanuel Agundu has
explained why his gang members killed him.
According to Punch, on
August 15, 2018, Agundu was reportedly shot by unidentified gunmen at
Obollo-Afor in the Udenu Local Government Area but he survived the attack.
Two weeks after, the lawyer
was reportedly trailed to Uru-Uwani Edem in the Nsukka Local Government Area
around 2pm and shot dead.
Explaining why the lawyer
was killed, Eze, a member of a five-man gang of Internet fraudsters based in
Morocco, who was arrested on Wednesday, July 10, 2019, confessed that Agundu
was killed because he withheld their N18m Internet fraud proceeds.
He said; “I didn’t know the
lawyer in person, but one of our members brought him to join us in the
business. His job was to supply a bank account to pay the money we realised
into.
“So, we paid a total of
N18m into the account he supplied and when we asked him to provide the money,
he rebuffed us. Instead of making the money available for us to share according
to our agreed formula, he started threatening to report the matter to security
agents. That was why we decided to end it once and for all.
“I was arrested because of
the death of that lawyer that we did a fraudulent transaction together. He
spent N18m and was killed because of that. The person, who shot him, is already
in prison. We were five in number; Emmanuel Ebonyi, one Valentine and his
younger brother, Agundu and I.
“It was an online business
,but the barrister supplied the account that we paid into. We paid a total of
N18m into his account and he kept all the money.”
Eze was paraded alongside
18 other suspects arrested for different offences at the state police
headquarters.
Speaking while parading he
suspects, the state Commissioner of Police, Suleiman Balarabe said Eze’s arrest
was part of the command’s efforts to rid the state of criminals.
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