The Edo State Police command has arrested 2 suspects, for allegedly involved in the murder of Mr. Omoruyi Okundolor, an Italian-based Nigerian in Benin, the Edo State capital, have been arrested by men of the state Police Command.
They alleged that the deceased’s former lover contracted them to kill Okundolor because the deceased jilted her.
The suspects, who were paraded by the Edo State Police Commissioner, Haliru Gwandu, confessed that four of them embarked on the mission to eliminate the deceased and named one Moses and Power as members of the gang.
The said female lover, identified as Mercy, and the two accomplices are now at large. The arrested suspects alleged that the plot to eliminate Okundolor was hatched at a drinking spot at Evbuotubu area of Benin.
They also took the life of an 18-year-old girl, who recognised one of the suspects, when they went for the mission, Gwandu, who described such killings as wicked and barbaric, vowed to bring to book the female lover and other suspects currently on the run.
He said: “Even if one decides to jilt you, killing the person is not an option; that is wickedness. And such people are enemies of the society. No excuse can be acceptable for killing someone.
We must orientate ourselves and inform others because we have been witnessing such crimes these days and it is shocking. It is actually a devilish act which must be stopped.”