A suspected cultist identified as Moses Joseph, aged 20, who was paraded by police in Edo State alongside his gang members, Chinedu Amah, 19, Chinonso Ozuora, 18, Onyechika Emmanuel, 18 and Marvelous, 20, for armed robbery, has admitted killing more than 10 persons.
The suspects were arrested in 2019 for the murder of a Taxify driver, Jason Oghogho Okunbor in Benin City, the state capital. Speaking with journalists when he was paraded alongside other suspects at the Edo State Police Headquarters on Wednesday, November 18, Joseph narrated how they were driving from Iyaro to five Junction when they met their victim, and they decided to hit his car from behind, which made the victim follow them with the intention to make them fix his car.
He said they lured Okunbor to Tenboga area where they ordered him to surrender all that he had to them including his ATM. “We collected his ATM and under duress, he told us he has N2.5m in his account. So, other members of my gang asked me to keep an eye on him while they go to the bank to withdraw the money. When my colleagues left to collect money from his account through his ATM, he decided to wrestle with me in a bid to escape but I stabbed him and dumped his corpse into the Ikpoba River on November 21, 2019”.
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