Two arrested for death of Uber driver

Two suspects allegedly responsible for strangling an Uber driver, Iniovosa Emmanuel Alex, and snatching his KIA RIO salon car marked KTU 594DM have been arrested by policemen attached to the Anti-kidnapping squad of the Lagos state police command.

It was gathered that the incident, which took place about two weeks back at Oremeji Street, Obawole area of Ogba was reported to the police who swung into action and upon detailed investigation, the suspects were arrested on Sunday 9th April 2017.

Investigations revealed that the suspects whose names were given as Osharon Egberanmuen, 31, Michael Eyeoekpe, 27 and one Destiny who is at large specialized in car snatching especially from uber driver.

Their strategy was to pose as regular passengers, hire the services of the drivers and subsequently dispossessing them of their vehicles which they also sell to their ready buyers.

They were said to have boarded Emmanuel’s vehicle from Ikeja to take them to Ogba Oke-Ira when they suddenly ordered him to make a Uturn and take them to where he was strangled with a belt.

According to Egberanmuen, “we are three that participated in the killing of the driver.

He said: “I and Michael met at Ogba where I went to drink and we became friends, I told him how difficult things were for me that I needed to relocate to Benin to start all over because things was not moving well for me in Lagos. It was at this point that Michael told me about a deal that could fetch me some money.

“He said we could get a car and then sell it to his boss. Michael then told me about one Alex who had a vehicle and we agreed to meet the following day, since then we have been meeting discussing how to buy the vehicle. On the fateful day, the Uber driver came I was with Michael in his office and his friend Destiny was with him but I don’t know if he discussed the vehicle deal with Destiny.”

Speaking further, he said “around 9:30 p.m. we called the Uber driver to come and pick us at tantalizer eatery at Ogba, I and Destiny were inside the vehicle with the driver, but Michael was outside I was holding the belt, immediately I put the belt across the driver’s neck destiny dragged the belt and we strangled him, when we are satisfied that his dead, we took his corpse to Oremeji Street and dumped him in front of a church around 10:30pm without anybody noticing us.”

Egberanmuen said, after killing the driver, we took the vehicle to Michael’s boss to sell the vehicle, the buyer then inquired from us where we got the vehicle from and Michael told him that we killed the owner after hearing that he said we should take the car away and Michael said we should take it to his house and parked it outside before taking it to another buyer in Benin.

“We were however unfortunate as the police through the tracking device, tracked the vehicle to Benin, got us arrested and brought us back to Lagos.

The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Fatai Owoseni who paraded the suspects yesterday at the Command headquarters said the command received a report of a missing Uber driver whose car was stolen and the driver missing.

Owoseni said, “since then it has been an issue of concern and detectives through their sustained effort towards the missing driver, two days ago two suspects were arrested in connection with the missing driver.

“the suspects who posed as passengers strangled the Uber driver and dumped his remained at Ogba and the vehicle was taking to Delta State where it was recovered and the suspects arrested.”

The state police Commissioner said, the suspects would soon be charge to court.