Paul Ezeugo, 27, a website designer has been arrested over the murder of a woman who he allegedly met on Facebook, lured, killed and then stole her car.
Ezeugo’s victim, Mrs Charity Chidiebere Aiyedogbon, was reported to have dated her killer for a year after the pair met on Facebook.
She was murdered on May 9, 2016 and had her Acura ZDX Sports Utility Vehicle stolen.
The police have been on the killers’ trail for 2 years
Charity’s body was found mutilated and packaged in two sacks at a river bank in Ushafa, an area in Abuja
Commissioner of Police, FCT, Sadiq Bello claimed that Ezeugo confessed to his crime, “On June 1, 2018, police operatives attached to the Command Anti-Kidnapping Squad succeeded in arresting the principal suspect, one Paul Chukwujekwu Ezeugo, 27 years at Benin in Edo State.
“Upon his arrest, the principal suspect who has been at large since the lady’s disappearance, confessed during interrogation that the mother of four was his girlfriend and that he conspired with one Emmanuel Adogah and murdered her on May 9, 2016 at about 2330hrs at Kagini.
“According to Paul Chukwujekwu Ezeugo, he gave her excess alcohol to consume before he moved her from Yaoundé Street to Kagini area where she was butchered and her mutilated body packaged in two sacks that were later dumped by the river bank at Ushafa, in Bwari Area Council.
“He further confessed that he killed her because he wanted to take possession of her Acura ZDX SUV and other properties. The deceased’s car and some of her properties have been recovered from him.”
Ezeugo for his part said he killed her because he wanted her car; “I design websites for living; I was living with my uncle in Abuja when I met Charity on Facebook. On that day (May 9), I went out with her and we drank and she dosed off, so we carried her from the house to where we killed her.
“It was the devil and greed. I was hoping to get her car. I dated her for one year but she didn’t give me anything, she told me she was a divorcee when we met.”
There was an accomplice in the crime, Emmanuel Adogah, 28, who helped with the murder and he said; “Paul is my friend and so when he asked me to meet him in his house and as a friend, I went there, I never knew his intention, I never knew what he was up to. I assisted in carrying the body that was all. My only role was to help in carrying the woman, she was almost half dead when I met them,”