Two notorious criminals who specializes in attacking their victims by pouring acid on them and dispossessing them of their Properties have been arrested by the Intelligence Response Team(IRT).
Police investigation revealed that the suspects mode of operation was to seek employment as a driver or conductor in companies during which they would study the company and perfect ways to divert their employers goods and dispose the vehicles and abscond to another location to get another victim.
The duo met there Waterloo on Sunday, December 9, 2018 after attacking a driver, one Taiwo Adesanya with raw acid in Olukwu area of Benin City in Edo state and snatched the truck he was driving and loaded with 600 bags of sugar, and dragged him out of the truck thinking he was dead.
The incidence was reported to the nearby police station but was later handed over to a more experienced Officer In Charge of IRT, DCP. Abba Kyari by the Inspector General Of Police.
Few Days after IRT took over the case,the prime suspects, Eric Aidan and Matthew Kwasha were apprehended somewhere in Nsuka, Enugu State where they were visiting an Herbalist for charms to evade arrest.
One of the arrested Suspects, Eric admitted buying acid at Sagamu and claimed it was Matthew that lured him into the act.
"We used to steal small car batteries and other petty items before Mathew planned the Operation and begged me to join him hence we started perfecting the plans. We agreed that after killing the driver, we would divert the truck and sell all the goods and also sell only the back of the truck because the head of the truck has a tracking device.
"When we arrived Olukwu in Edo State, I poured the acid into a cup and handed it over to Mathew who poured it on the driver who was fast asleep at that time. It was when the driver screamed in pains that I realized the gravity of what we had done. The driver was able to recognize us because I shouted Eric’s name in shock after seeing the reaction of the acid on the driver's body.
“We drove the truck to Matthew’s sisters house in Owo where someone was waiting to buy the sugar. We kept the goods in care of Matthew’s sister house and drove the truck head back to Olukwu where we abandoned it. We later sold the back of the truck to someone for N600,000. Matthew and I shared the money equally then we relocated to Nsuka where we went to see an herbalist. That was were we were arrested.”Eric confessed.
The victim, when visited in the hospital narrated how he landed in his present condition and explained that he is in dire need of financial support as he has to go for plastic surgery and his company, who has been footing his medical bills cannot afford the bills for the plastic surgery.
"I was assigned by my company to go and pick 600 bags of sugar to supply to a Brewery in Benin City, Edo State. I went with my conductor, Matthew a Ghanaian but I didn’t know that he was planning to kill me and divert the goods the company sent us to deliver to another company. My conductor told me that I should assist one of his friends who was travelling to Benin, that was how Eric joined us at the Command area of Shagamu and I recognized him as one of our staff who was sacked some time ago.
“My conductor’s friend narrated how he has been suffering and I pitied him and even bought food for him and my conductor. They did not portray any iota of wickedness as they were showing appreciations to me and I was so relaxed with them that I did not have any premonition that something sinister was going to happen to me.
"When we arrived Olukwu near Benin, I became tired, parked the vehicle and took a nap in the front seat. I was in very deep sleep when I suddenly woke up feeling a burning sensation all over my body. I woke up in excruciating pains and I could not see again. So, I started shouting for help. As I was shouting for help, I heard my conductor telling his friend, Eric to finish me with the wheel spanner and his friend replied that the acid was enough to kill him. That was when I realized that it was my own conductor and his friend that has poured acid on me.
"Thinking I was dead, they dragged me out of the vehicle and dumped me by the roadside. It was at that instance that I started shouting for help and some good Nigerians rushed me to the hospital. I can’t really say how I was traced to Benin by my Company but they have been taking care of my medical bills.
“I am begging that the government should let those who poured acid on me go through the same pains that I am going through presently. I was kind to them and they paid me with evil." He narrated and pleaded.
The victim commended his company and The IRT Unit of the Nigerian Police Force and pleaded that government come to his aid so he can get a plastic surgery done to save the other eye as one is completely blinded.
The arrested suspects have confessed to the crime and will soon be charged to Court.
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