I killed them because one of them ran away with our N4million, says Killers of Rivers undergraduates

Bright Iheachi, aka Nelly, Leader of the gang that allegedly killed three university students in Rivers State, on Wednesday said he ordered their killing because one of them ran away with his N4 million.

At the parade of the five-man gang in Port Harcourt, the state capital, on Wednesday, Iheachi said  their target was Nelson Nwafor who fled to Ghana with his N4 million share of an undisclosed deal they struck last year, the Nation reports.

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Iheachi said, “I was the person that ordered my colleagues to kill the three of them, but it was Nelson that I had wanted them to kill, but I later changed my mind and decided that the three of them be killed,” he said

Parents of the deceased three urged police to ensure justice is done.

The decompossed bodies of three Uniport students abducted and killed by kidnap gang, were recovered from a shallow grave in Etoo, Eleme Local Government area of Rivers state.

The Anti-Cultism Unit of Rivers State police command also arrested members of a kidnap gang who abducted and killed the students.

It was gathered that the undergraduates, Joy Adoki, Nelson Nwafor and Fortune Obimba were kidnapped on April 7, 2020.

One of the suspects, Friday Akpan, who spoke to newsmen, said they abducted the victims on the order of one Bright, who told them that the victims betrayed him after money was paid into the account of one of them.

The arrested suspect confessed that they killed and buried the three undergraduates after raping the female among them, Joy Adoki.

Briefing newsmen, the spokesperson for Rivers State Police Command, Nnamdi Omoni, a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), disclosed that the Anti-Cultism Unit led by its commander, Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP) Collins Shadar, swung into action after a case of kidnap of the three undergraduates were reported to the unit.

Omoni stated that following discreet investigation by the unit led by CSP Shadar, the suspects were arrested and one of them led the police to the place where the undergraduates were killed and buried.

The PPRO stated that an AK 47 rifle, pistol, three magazines, 72 rounds of live ammunition were recovered from the suspects.