Operatives of the Akwa Ibom State Police Command have arrested one Steven Onowa for allegedly murdering his friend, a middle aged barber, Daniel Bassey Solomon, around Itu Road, Uyo, the state capital.
Onowa, a graduate of Federal Polytechnic Oko, in Anambra State, was said to have murdered the deceased, who was his worker and employee, yesterday for refusing to account for the sum of N750, 000.
Following the act, the suspect was said to have attempted to escape but was apprehended with the aid of a GSM tracking device employed by men of the Police Force.
Reacting to the murder of the barber, an indigene of Uruan Local Government Area of the state, the state Police Commissioner, Mr Gabriel Achong, stated that Onowa, upon his arrest, confessed to the crime, saying he invited the deceased over to his house and offered him a poisioned drink.
Achong quoted the suspect as saying, “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.
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