Residents of Itu Road, Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State
capital, on Wednesday, woke to a horror sight,
following the murder of a middle-aged barber by a
close family friend and supposed boss.
Steven Onowa,
a graduate of
Federal
Polytechnic
Oko, from
Anambra State,
was later
arrested by
men of the
Akwa Ibom
State police
command over
the murder of
Daniel Bassey
Solomon, his close friend and barbing salon
employee.
Nigerian Tribune gathered that Onowa, who
tried to escape after allegedly butchering his
friend and dismembering him, was arrested
with the aid of a GSM tracking device employed
by officers and men of the Force.
Explaining the incident which led to the gruesome
murder of the said barber, who hailed from Uruan
Local Government Area, the state Police
Commissioner, Mr Gabriel Achong, said the culprit
confessed to have invited his friend to his house
and offered him a drink.
“At about 3.00 a.m, I decided to kill him. “I gave
him the first cut, the guy got up; I gave him a
second one and he died and I butchered him to
parts,” the suspect confessed.
The commissioner, who confirmed that a quarrel
had been on for the past two years between the
‘butcher’ and his victim, even as their case file was
still with the SARS department of the command,
said the police were successful in tracking down
the culprit through the assistance of his landlord,
who kept contacting him on phone, as the police
kept tracking the calls.
“After stabbing him to death, he used matchet to
chop off his hands, head and two legs. He packed
the parts in a sack, pulled it out of the house to the
major street of Itu Road.”
Apparently tired of evacuating the corpse to a safer
place, he was said to have abandoned the deceased
in a bag, removed the vital parts, including his two
hands, which he dumped in a place along School
Road and the head, which he hid in abandoned
dump site on the same Itu Road.
The suspect, who confessed to the crime, said he
had called his victim on phone for urgent meeting
in his house, where he drugged his Orijin beer.
When the late Dan arrived, his killer entertained
him with the drugged beer and it was not long
before the deceased dosed off, giving his killer the
opportunity to tie him, before stabbing him to
death.
The suspect’s landlord, Mr Celestine George, who
spoke to journalists at the police headquarters, Ikot
Akpan Abia, said the police was called after the
incident was reported and he had to put a call to
the suspect and demanded for the balance of his
rent.
“The suspect said he was about travelling and that
he was with the balance which he would pay me
before travelling. I then asked him to meet me at
Itam junction, within the premises of a church
where I had already told the SARS men to lay
ambush for him.
“I kept calling him until he arrived at the premises
of the church where I tricked him to. He came in a
car with three armed mobile policemen and I
hinted the men of the SARS formation, who had laid
ambush for him within the premises and he was
apprehended and handcuffed.
“The three mobile policemen were eventually
overpowered by the SARS men and the suspect was
arrested and taken to the police headquarters at
Ikot Akpanabia,” he said.
What pained the angry residents of Itu Road
the most, according to a neighbour, “is the fact
that the suspect, apart from being a close
friend of the deceased, was also having an
affair with one of the late Dan’s sisters.”
He disclosed that such close relationship led to the
suspect opening a barbing salon for his victim
along Urua Ekpa Road.
When interrogated by newsmen, Onowa confessed
to the crime and claimed to have killed his victim
for daring to raise his voice at him over his N750,
000 he had refused to account for.
“We reported the matter to SARS about two years
ago and he agreed on a timeframe to pay up the
N750, 000. Till today, he has refused to pay the
money, so when I invited him to my house that day,
he started shouting at and getting angry with me,
so I killed him. I am not dealing in body parts. I
only cut him to pieces to be able to carry him,” the
suspect added.

Source:www.informationng.com/2015/07/man-butchers-friend-in-akwa-ibom-warning-graphic-content.html

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