Bright Iheachi, leader of a suspected kidnap gang who murdered three undergraduates in Rivers State has revealed reasons why the students were killed.
The Anti-cultism Unit of Rivers State Police Command had, on Friday May 1st, arrested members of a kidnapping gang who abducted and killed three students, Nelson Nwafor and Fortune Obemba of Rivers State University, RSU and Joy Adoki, a student of Management Science in the University of Port Harcourt, UNIPORT.
The undergraduates were kidnapped on Tuesday, April 7 2020. Following intensive investigation by the Nigeria Police, the suspects were apprehended and fortunately one the gang led the security operatives to the grave where the three students were buried.
However, Iheachi, the suspected gang leader, said he ordered the killing because one of the victims ran away with his N4 million, adding that the initial target was Nelson Nwafor who, he claims, betrayed him and fled to Ghana with his N4 million share of an undisclosed deal they struck last year.
He said he organized for Nelson to be kidnapped. However, on the day of the abduction, Nelson was with Fortune and Joy who were then abducted along with him.
“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.
Full of grief, father of one of the victims, late Fortune, Mr Bright Obemba, said the boy was his only son and no amount of money given to him would bring back his son.
President Buhari however condemned the attack and ordered that justice must be served
