A self-confessed internet fraudster, Wahab Hammed, has admitted to colluding with a friend, Adegoke Ayobami to kill a mutual friend, Oguntade Wasiu.
He spoke on Wednesday while being paraded by the Osun State Police Command in Osogbo.
Hammed, 28, said Ayobami, 31, Wasiu, and him were all engaged in internet fraud.
The suspect said that Wasiu made more money from the illicit practice than them which caused them to be jealous.
“I am a tailor by profession and I have a shop but I also operate motorcycle for additional income. I am from Modakeke in Adesiyan compound. I also engaged in internet fraud but I have never hit any money.
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“Wasiu was a friend to Ayobami. I knew him through Ayobami and he was into internet fraud. He has been into yahoo before our friendship more than a year ago.Wa
“I and Ayobami killed Wasiu because he was always telling us about his achievements, about how much money he was making from internet fraud and how he flaunted his successes like opening a shop for his wife, buying gold and many more. All these grieved my heart and made me envy him.
“And I have always wanted to collect his money so that I can use it to cater for my need.
“We killed him on August 8, 2022. We lured him to a new site because he came to me that he wanted to buy a piece of land. Ayobami and I took him to a site at Modakeke. After we inspected the land, on our way back, I was in front, Wasiu followed me and Ayobami was at the back. Ayobami held him at the jugular and while he was shouting he hacked him on the head with a cutlass.
“We never had a plan to kill him but to collect money from him, but Ayobami eventually killed him. I went to report myself at the police station days later,” he told journalists while being paraded.
The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in the state, Yemisi Opalola said that the duo was arrested after a case of missing person was reported at the B Division Modakeke on August 7.
“Immediately, preliminary investigation was carried out and one Wahab Hammed friend of the missing person, one Oguntade Wasiu, now deceased, was arrested in connection with the case.
“Consequently, the case was transferred to the Anti-Robbery section of the Command State Criminal Investigation Department for discreet investigation and swiftly the team extended its investigation tentacles to Alaro area of Modakeke where one Adegoke Ayobami was arrested on 12/8/22.”
She added that investigation uncovered that the suspects and the victim were friends and internet fraudsters.
“Having discovered that the deceased was always making money more than them, the duo conspired and lured their friend (the deceased) to an uncompleted building in a remote part of Alaro area, Modakeke in a bid to collect money from him and in the course of struggle he was killed.
“The suspects made away with the victim’s motorcycle which was recovered from the second suspect’s house,” the command spokesperson added.
The Commissioner of Police in Osun, CP Olawale Olokode said the suspects would be dragged to court at the conclusion of investigations.