A man identified as Moses Moses has been arrested for beheading his colleague in Auchi, Edo state, after he informed him that his elder brother living in South Africa had sent him the sum of N13 million to complete his housing project in Nigeria.
Abuchi Wisdom Nwachukwu, 29, a native of Isiala-Mbano, Imo State, was allegedly hacked to death by Moses (pictured above) on January 7, 2020, during a night shift at the table water company where they both worked in Auchi, Edo State.
After killing him, Moses cut off Nwachukwu’s lifeless body up so that it would not be easily recognized before dumping the body in a bush close to the company.
He then took the victim’s phone and the ATM card to some internet fraudsters based in Auchi who withdrew N2.2million from Nwachukwu’s account, while he went on make further withdrawals from POS in various points in Edo State.
Meanwhile, Nwachukwu’s headless body was found by the police in Auchi, who could not identify him and took it to the mortuary. Nwachukwu’s relatives in Imo State and his brother in South Africa therefore became very worried over his sudden disappearance with his phone lines switched off.
His brother was said to have written a petition to the Inspector General of Police, Adamu Mohammed after some months of his disappearance while operatives of the Intelligence Response Team (IRT) headed by Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, were directed to carry out an investigation.
Weeks into police investigation, the IRT operatives were able to trace all POS transactions Moses did with Nwachukwu’s ATM cards, in Benin, Ore, and Auchi areas of Edo State before they finally arrested him in a hotel where he was hiding in Auchi.
During his interrogation, he confessed to the crime and led the operatives in arresting his other accomplices; Yusuf Sagiru, Tony Bright, Terence Okochukwu and a businessman Jahswill Ogbonnaya, who assisted him in withdrawing a total sum of N6million from the account.
During an interview with Vanguard, Moses, the 27-year-old suspect said his friend’s ghost had been haunting him from the day he killed him.
The Auchi Polytechnic Mechanical Engineering graduate said;
I have been working in a table water company in Abely area of Auchi in the last four years and when Nwachukwu got a job in the factory I was the person who taught him how to operate his machine, we then became very close friends.
While we were working Nwachukwu told me about his brother who lived in South Africa and how he had been sending money to build his house for him.
He showed me an alert of N13m which his brother just sent to him and told me that he would be travelling to his village to carry out the project.
He added;
I then decided to get rid of him in order to steal the money. Since we were friends, I tricked him to get the password for his phone, went through it, and found his ATM card pin. Few days before he was to travel, we worked on the same shift, and I lured him outside the company, stabbed him with a knife, and killed him.
I dragged his body into the bush and because I didn’t want people to recognize him easily, I cut off his neck and buried it. Then I took his ATM to one internet hacker, Yusuf, and told him that I needed to hack the account. N2.2million was then withdrawn from the account. I killed my friend on 8th January, 2020 and travelled to Ore and Benin City.
Moses confessed;
I stayed in several hotels, sleeping with several women but my late friend’s ghost was always disturbing me. Whenever I wanted to sleep, his ghost would appear to me and I would be crying and the girls I had with me would run away saying I wanted to use them for money ritual. I now regret my action.
