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| Alleged killer: Nonso Azubuike. |
A notorious 'Keke Napep' (tricycle) thief, Nonso Azubuike, has confessed to the police at the Enugu State Police Command how he killed many operators of the tricycle so they could steal their vehicles.
The
middle-aged indigene of Otolo in Nnewi, Anambra State, told the police
that he had been engaging in the crime for a long time while he lived in
Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory and even on relocation to Enugu,
continued in the same field until the end of the road came with his
arrest.
According to the suspect, after killing their victims,
he and his accomplices would forge a dealer receipt to convince
prospective buyers and then sell the Keke at prices ranging from
N205,000 to N350,000 at Enugu and Nnewi. “We
operated for so long in Abuja but had to relocate when the situation
became difficult. Before we left, we killed five okada riders in
Nasarawa. Here in Enugu, we usually board a Keke, myself and my friend, Kennedy Ihunegbo,
who is now dead; we will ask the Keke rider to take us to our building
site at Ugwuaji; on getting there, we will ask him to help us load some
items into the Keke; once he bends down, one of us will use hammer and
hit him on the head until he dies. We will now bury him in a shallow grave.”
The Commissioner of Police in the State, Ekechukwu Nwodibo,
while parading the suspect, stated that he and his late accomplice
initially engaged in crimes of killing commercial motorcycle riders in
Abuja, adding that in 2014, they spread their operations to Nasarawa
State and had stolen so many motorcycles in the state.
“The modus operandi of the duo was to ask each
tricycle operator conveying them to drop them at their purported
building site, normally in a lonely place.
They
would then request the operator to carry blocks for them in the
tricycle, to another location. The tricycle operator would be hit by
them with a very big iron hammer on the head repeatedly as he bent to
carry the block, till he died. This was
the method used in killing their seven victims on two dates each in
January and March, 2016, at various times of the day. In an instance,
the head of one of the victims was shattered.”
Nwodibo said the suspect will be charged to court at the conclusion of investigations.
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