Banker hires assassins to kill her ex-husband in Lagos (Photo)

The Ogun State Police Command has arrested
two suspected hired-assassins and a female
banker over failed attempt to assassinate her
ex-husband identified as Tochukwu
Onyebuchi.
The state Commissioner of Police, Ahmed
Iliyasu paraded the suspects at the
command’s headquarters in Abeokuta on
Wednesday.
He said that
the banker, Oluchi Tochukwu, hired the
suspected criminals to assassinate her
husband in his residence at Ayobo area of
Lagos State.
Iliyasu named the two suspected assassins as
Chigozie Smart (32) and Kingsley Ikechukwu
(36).
He said that they were intercepted and
arrested on Oct. 19 at Ijebu-Ode while
attempting to escape to Onitsha with the
victim’s Range Rover
Jeep.
He said that Oluchi
was arrested at Ayobo area of Lagos State.
He said, “One Oluchi, a 32-year old banker,
who is married to one Tochukwu Onyebuchi
years ago, got separated from her husband
following some matrimonial problems.
“The custody of their only child is currently
being contested in the court but Oluchi has
another plan.
“She connived with the trio of Chigozie Smart,
Kingsley Ikechukwy and one other who is
now at large to eliminate her husband.
“She arranged for the weapons which
includes cutlass, iron rods and acid which she
kept in her husband’s compound at Ayobo
area of Lagos State and described where she
kept it to the assailants.
“The suspects went there on Wednesday as
planned and matcheted the man severally on
his head and poured the acid on him. “The
suspects thereafter abandoned the victim and
took away his range Rover Jeep which Oluchi
instructed them to drop at her brother’s place
in Onitsha, Anambra State.
“Luck ran against them when a patrol team of
the Ogun State command on Wednesday
sighted the vehicle along the Ijebu-Ode/Benin
expressway and stopped it for
search.
“While
searching the vehicle, blood stain was seen
and the two occupants were unable to give
satisfactory account of the blood stain, hence,
they were arrested.
“It was during interrogation that the suspects
revealed all that transpired to the police.”
The commissioner said that the victim, who
had been treated at an undisclosed hospital,
was in the custody of the police helping them
in the process of investigation.
Oluchi, however, denied contracting the duo
of Chigozie and Kingsley and one other at
large to assassinate her husband.
Oluchi, who acknowledged that her three-
year-old marriage to her husband had
crashed, told journalists that she had no
reason to kill him.
Meanwhile, Chigozie told newsmen that it was
Oluchi who hired them to kill her husband
with a promise to purchase “Tokunbo” cars
for each of them after a successful operation.
(NAN)
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