Pictured
is Daniel Solomon who was killed by his close friend and employee,
Steven Onowa, as he poses for a photograph in his barbing shop. Daniel
was killed and dismembered by Onowa on Tuesday July 28 over disagreement
on money the suspect owed him.
His
killer had invited him over to his house for a drink…a drink that he
already poisoned. While asleep, Onowa matchet his friend, dismembered
his handsome legs and stuffed the body in a bag and pulled it out of the
house to the major street of Itu Road. See more graphic photos and read
the full story below;
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 he had already poisoned.
Steven said:
Steven said:
“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 an abandoned dump site on the same Itu Road.
The suspect, who confessed to the crime, said he had called his victim on phone for an urgent meeting in his house, where he drugged his Orijin beer.
According to him, 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, who confessed to the crime, said he had called his victim on phone for an urgent meeting in his house, where he drugged his Orijin beer.
According to him, 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 annoyed
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.
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 claimed to have killed his victim for
daring to raise his voice at him over his N750,000 he had refused to
account for.
He said:
He said:
“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: The Nigerian Tribune
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