The Akwa Ibom State Police
Command on Wednesday arrested a 32-year-old graduate of the Federal
Polytechnic, Oko, Anambra State, Mr. Stephen Onona, in connection with the
death of his close friend and employee, Mr. Daniel Solomon.
Onona is from Njikoka
Local Government Area of Anambra State while Solomon was from Uruan LGA of Akwa
Ibom State.
Onona was said to be an
employee of Africana First Publisher, Uyo, where he worked for four years.
The Commissioner of
Police, Akwa Ibom State Command, Mr. Gabriel Achong, said Onona invited
Solomon, who worked for him as a professional barber, to his house over a
misunderstanding bordering on about N1m.
He stated that as soon
as they had discussed the issue, Solomon went to bed while Onona took up a
machete and cut off Solomon’s head before cutting other parts of the body in
pieces.
The CP added, “After
cutting off Solomon’s head, he removed his two arms and laps, put them into his
bag and threw them somewhere. He put the remaining parts of the body in ‘Ghana
Must Go’ and dumped them in the gutter. He put Solomon’s head in the dustbin
and dumped it in the bush.
“When I got the news on
Tuesday morning that somebody was killed and thrown into a gutter, I swung into
action. I did every possible to get him arrested. I had to locate the owner of
the house where the murderer lived.
“We got the landlord
and asked whom he gave the house to; and he disclosed the guy’s identity to us.
And with the help of tracking device, we called the gentleman (Onona), and he
told us that he was in Onitsha.
“We tracked his number
and in the evening on Tuesday, he was arrested in a street here in Uyo. He led
the police to where he dumped all the body parts of Solomon. He has some
friends and we used these friends number to get to him.”
Achong stated that when
he reported the matter to the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Solomon Arase,
he said the IGP wondered if Onona was of a sound mind.
He added that in the
course of his interaction with Onona, he discovered that the suspect was of a
sound mind, saying nothing was wrong with him.
Onona admitted to
committing the crime, saying he was provoked because Solomon could not tell him
how he had spent the N750,000 he gave him to set up the barbing business.
He said, “I am 32 years
old and working here with Africana First Publisher. I am in the police net
because of my boy, Bassey Solomon. He took my money, N750,000, which I obtained
from a bank for him to set up barbing business.
“The barbing saloon was
at 55, Itu Road. I am angry with him to the extent of carrying machete and killing
him.”
- Punch
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