How Nigerian billionaire was killed, dismembered body found in Lagos bush – Police.
The body of missing billionaire, Chief Ignatius Odunukwe, has been found in a bush in the Ajah area of Lagos State.
The business mogul who was a merchant of Fireman generator, was abducted on December 1, 2019 when he wanted to sell a landed property to some supposed buyers. He left his residence at No. 14 Maduke Street, off Raymond Njoku Street, Ikoyi, Lagos, on and never returned home.
The police said on Tuesday Odunukwe was later strangled and injected with a lethal substance in a hotel room in Ajah before his body was dismembered.
Narrating how the Enugu State indigene was killed, a lawyer who identified himself simply as Smart Law on Instagram, said his body was dismembered and stacked inside a bag by those who pretended to be buying his landed property.
Below is the Smart Law’s post on Instablog9ja:
“How the billionaire owner of Fireman Generator was murdered and his body stacked inside a bag.
“Chief Ignatius Odunukwe, who went missing since the first week of December 2019, has been found dead.
“The story had it that the billionaire was killed by his assailants, cut into pieces and his body packed into a Ghana-must-go bag, took to the expressway and dumped inside a forest. The sum of N900m and original documents collected from him.
“Some criminals, who pretended to be land buyers, drew his attention requesting to purchase property since he had one for sale. The deal was concluded and having agreed on the purchase price, the agreement was drafted by his lawyer.
“Both parties agreed to meet on an agreed date and place for the exchange of money and signing of documents, that’s when the whole drama unfolded. Chief Odunukwe’s lawyers suggested going with him for the perfection of the deal, but he declined on the ground that he needed to see someone at Ikoyi Club and that was the last time he was seen alive.
“When the billionaire could not return home, his family reported the incident to the police and investigation commenced. It is always good to disclose your movements to your family. It was his lawyer who unveiled the whole deal to the police.”
At a press conference in Lagos on Tuesday, Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Zone 2 Command, Ahmed Iliyasu, said the Command received a petition from Adunukwe’s family that he had been missing. He added that policemen were sent to investigate the case and to arrest his killers.
Iliyasu paraded four suspects namely; Arinze Igwe, 26; Solomon Cletus, 30; Daniel Ibeaji, 42; and Israel Obigaremu, 35, were nabbed and confessed to have committed the crime.
“The suspects specialise in hacking into unsuspecting members of the public’s Facebook accounts and the moment a person responds to a friendship request, the person is a ready-made target. Daniel Ibeaji, who claimed to be a medical doctor, is the kingpin of the syndicate”,Iliyasu said.
“It was Ibeaji, who approached the late Adunukwe with a business proposal to the tune of N900m, following which they fixed an appointment for the Artican Beach Resort, Ajah, Lagos, having asked the three other suspects to be on red alert for that operation.
“After cajoling Adunukwe into signing the agreed documents, he lured him to his hotel room. In the hotel room, Ibeaji instructed one of his boys to fetch him a bag and pretended as if he wanted to hand over the money to the victim.
“As the victim was about to open the bag, Ibeaji grabbed him from behind, while one of the boys hit the victim with an axe in the back of his head. Ibeaji then dragged Adunukwe into the toilet, strangled him and with the assistance of his boys, who held the victim down, injected him twice with a lethal substance. Convinced that the deed had been done, Ibeaji gave directives to the boys to evacuate the corpse and throw it away.”
Cletus alleged Igwe, a former worker of the hotel directed them to take the corpse through the back door.
He said, “It was Igwe, who directed us, and we moved the body through the back door of the hotel and through the laundry area. We chopped the body between 7pm and 8pm and it was within that same hour that we dumped him in the bush as the hotel is not far away from where the corpse was dumped.
“Ibeaji was the person, who hit him, before he asked us to go and kill him.”
The AIG said Ibeaji also killed Bayelsa State Commisssioner, one Depologa, whose remains were found on the Abuja Expressway.
He said Ibeaji’s second victim was one Jude Efulue, a property developer in Abuja, who swam into Ibeaji’s net and was held captive in an apartment and forced to sign a prepared document transferring the ownership of the victim’s property to him.
“His plan was to kill Efulue after sweeping his account clean. But with the help of neighbours, who called the police, Bob and his boys were apprehended and charged accordingly. It was at the Kuje Prison, where Cletus was also serving a jail term, that he and Ibeaji met and they reunited after leaving the prison to execute this dastardly act,” Iliyasu disclosed.
