PREMIUM TIMES speaks to some individuals fingered in Newswire’s report, including Messrs Ezeugo and Effiong.
A Superintendent of Police, Samuel Ezeugo, and a civil servant, Kufre Effiong, have explained their links to Frank Akpan, the suspected killer of the slain job-seeker, Iniubong Umoren.
According to records obtained from his mobile network provider published Monday by Newswire, Mr Akpan, shortly before his arrest, had telephone conversations with Messrs Ezeugo and Effiong, a revelation that has raised suspicion of conspiracy.
Mr Ezeugo heads the police division that supervised the arrest of Mr Akpan while Mr Effiong, a civil servant at the Federal Ministry of Niger Delta, is a close relation of the suspect.
Houseboy machetes sleeping employer to death Police
Police say the houseboy received information that his employer had a lot of money at home
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The police in Ondo State on Thursday paraded one Emmanuel Akpan, a houseboy, with his accomplice, Goodness Ekpe, for allegedly killing his employer, Febisola Adebayo.
Bolaji Salami, commissioner of police in Ondo State, made this known while parading the suspects along with 25 others before journalists in Akure.
The CP explained that On March 29, 2021, at about 2300hrs at Ifokanbale Street, Ondo town, Mr Akpan killed his employer, Mrs Adebayo, a food canteen operator, in Ondo town, with a machete while the woman was sleeping.