The killer of popular Kogi business mogul and owner of Lokoja-based Chucks Supermarket, late Nicholas Ofodile has been arrested by policemen.
Paraded alongside other criminals at the Police headquarters in Lokoja on Wednesday, the killer of Ofodile, Vincent Omogor said an apprentice serving with Chucks Supermarket contracted them to kill his master for refusing to give him money to treat his sick father.
He said the apprentice was angst when his father later died.
“He (the apprentice) became angry that if Chucks had given him the money, his father would have lived. Consequently, he contracted us, gave us his traveling itinerary, which helped in the assassination.”
Omogor said Chuck’s tried to forcefully reverse his car on sighting them, but ran into another blockade from their members who approached him from the rear, and shot him dead.”
The apprentice whose name was not revealed is presently said to be on the run.
Speaking with Journalists in his office, Kogi State Commissioner of Police, Ede Ayuba, while parading twenty eight suspected criminals, said one of the suspect, Vincent Omogor was responsible for Nicholas Ofodile assassination.
He said Omogor was arrested following intelligence gathering embarked upon by SARS, working in synergy with vigilantee group in Orehi, Kogi LGA, who arrested Vincent Omogor, an indigene of Asaba, Delta State.
According to the CP, the suspect confessed to the crime of assassination and mentioned his cohorts who are still at large; that carried out the dastardly act.
Ede said investigation into the case to arrest the other perpetrators is still on, assured of the unrelenting efforts of the Police to make the state safe in the hands kidnappers.
Nicholas was killed in the early hour of Wednesday, June 10 by the gunmen who also kidnapped some passengers from another vehicle.
