The
Ogun State Police Command has arrested two suspected hired-assassins and a
female banker over failed attempt to assassinate her ex-husband identified as
Tochukwu Onyebuchi.
The
state Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Iliyasu paraded the suspects at the
command’s headquarters in Abeokuta on Wednesday.
He
said the banker, Oluchi Tochukwu, hired the suspected criminals to assassinate
her husband in his residence at Ayobo area of Lagos State.
Iliyasu
named the two suspected assassins as Chigozie Smart (32) and Kingsley Ikechukwu
(36).
He
said they were intercepted and arrested on Oct. 19 at Ijebu-Ode while
attempting to escape to Onitsha with the victim’s Range Rover Jeep.
He
said Oluchi was arrested at Ayobo area of Lagos State.
He
said, “One Oluchi, a 32-year-old banker, who is married to one Tochukwu
Onyebuchi years ago, got separated from her husband following some matrimonial
problems.
“The
custody of their only child is currently being contested in the court but
Oluchi has another plan.
“She
connived with the trio of Chigozie Smart, Kingsley Ikechukwy and one other who
is now at large to eliminate her husband.
“She
arranged for the weapons which includes cutlass, iron rods and acid which she
kept in her husband’s compound at Ayobo area of Lagos State and described where
she kept it to the assailants.
“The
suspects went there on Wednesday as planned and matcheted the man severally on
his head and poured the acid on him.
“The
suspects thereafter abandoned the victim and took away his range Rover Jeep
which Oluchi instructed them to drop at her brother’s place in Onitsha, Anambra
State.
“Luck
ran against them when a patrol team of the Ogun State command on Wednesday
sighted the vehicle along the Ijebu-Ode/Benin expressway and stopped it for
search.
“While
searching the vehicle, blood stain was seen and the two occupants were unable
to give satisfactory account of the blood stain, hence, they were arrested.
“It
was during interrogation that the suspects revealed all that transpired to the
police.”
The
commissioner said that the victim, who had been treated at an undisclosed
hospital, was in the custody of the police helping them in the process of
investigation.
Oluchi,
however, denied contracting the duo of Chigozie and Kingsley and one other at
large to assassinate her husband.
Oluchi,
who acknowledged that her three-year-old marriage to her husband had crashed,
told journalists that she had no reason to kill him.
Meanwhile,
Chigozie told newsmen that it was Oluchi who hired them to kill her husband
with a promise to purchase “Tokunbo” cars for each of them after a successful
operation.
Source:NAN
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