The General Overseer of the Kingdom of God Conscious
Movement International, 65-year-old Rev Lord Ojeee also known as Nduwusi Kanu
is now cooling off in police cell after being fingered as the mastermind of the
kidnap and murder of the former CHAIRMAN of Okigwe Local Government Area of Imo State, Hon. Godwin Igbo
who was 70-year-old at the time of the incident.
The cleric was said to have hired a gang of kidnappers
for a fee of N2m, out of which he made an initial deposit of
N50,000 for the abduction of Igbo over an alleged land dispute and chieftaincy
title of Eze Agu Nechenba 1 of Ikpoeze 1 of Arondizuogu community in Imo State.
The operation, which went awry, led to the death of the
former council boss who was thereafter buried in a shallow grave in a thick
forest at Lokpanta, Abia State by his abductors.
Police investigations into the matter, however, led to the
arrest of two of the kidnappers, one of them, a nephew to Rev Lord Ojee,
22-year-old Adindu Chukwu a.k.a. Alhaji and a 27-year-old Udoh Amaechi Oko who
both collected N500,000 as ransom from the family of the deceased even after he
was murdered.
The Enugu State Commissioner of Police, Mr Mohammed Adamu
told Saturday
Sun that the former
council chief was on a transit to Enugu State on April 10, 2014 when he was
kidnapped, murdered and buried in a shallow grave in a thick forest at
Lokpanta, Abia State.
CP Adamu said he received a petition by the family of the
deceased in May over the kidnap. The police boss subsequently transferred the
case to the Anti-Kidnappers
Squad to investigate. It was learnt that in the course of investigations by the
Alex Akinlalu-led team, detectives had an encounter with two suspected
kidnappers, one of them identified as ‘Black’, a cult member of Vicking
Confraternity who received gunshot injuries and later died. But before he died,
the police were able to recover two PHONES of the late Godwin Igbo from him.
‘Black’ was also said to have confessed before he died
that he was part of the gang that killed the late Igbo and buried him in an
Abia forest. On October 15, the Anti-Kidnappers Squad arrested Udoh Ameachi Oko
at Okigwe in Imo State and this also led to the arrest of Adindu Chukwu a.k.a.
Alhaji at Garikki in Okigwe, Imo State. Chukwu was said to have confessed that
it was Lord Ojee, who sent them to kidnap the late Godwin Igbo with a promise
to give them N2m, out of which he gave them N50,000 “for drinks and welfare.”
This in turn led to the arrest of the General Overseer of
God Conscious Movement International, Rev Lord Ojee at Uratta road junction,
Aba/Port Harcourt road, Aba. All the suspects, the police boss confirmed, are
now at the Anti-Kidnapers Squad’s custody where they have allegedly confessed
to the crime.
In his confession, one of the suspects, Chukwu a.k.a.
Alhaji said: “Rev Lord Ojee is my uncle. He is the younger brother to my
mother. Rev Lord Ojee came to the village, Umulolo Okigwe every month and he
has a misunderstanding with the late Godwin Igbo over 10 years ago over land
dispute and the chieftaincy title of “Eze Agu Nechenba 1 of Ikpo Eze 1 of
Arondizuogu community. My uncle, Rev Lord Ojee approached me and wanted me to
organise some boys to kidnap the late Godwin Igbo to show him that he has
power.
“I have to meet ‘Black’, one of the leaders of kidnappers
who is now late and he organised five members for the job and that include
myself. My uncle promised to settle us with N2 million if the job was
accomplished and he gave me N50,000 for drinks and welfare which we used to
enjoy ourselves before we carried out the operation” , he said. Chukwu further
confessed: “We went to the late Godwin Igbo to kidnap him in his village at
Ekpa Eze in Aro Ndinuzo –Ogu in Okigwe Local Government Area of Imo State
around 8.00pm on April 10, 2014. We took him away and we kept the victim inside
a Toyota car and put him in the boot of the car. He fainted and in the process
he died.
“We took the corpse of the late Igbo into a thick forest
and buried him in a shallow grave on April 10, 2014. We collected the
deceased’s two PHONES and called his family members and
demanded N2 million ransom. The family members didn’t know that Igbo was dead.
They paid N500,000 to us and two days later, I went to meet my uncle, Rev Lord
Ojee and explained to him that Godwin Igbo was kidnapped and was dead. The
intention of my uncle was not to kill Igbo but to kidnap him and keep him away
but unfortunately he died.
“I came to meet my uncle, to collect the N2 million that
he promised us. My uncle insisted that since we have collected N500, 000 from
the deceased’s family that that should be okay for us. My uncle gave me N5,000
for transport.”
Speaking further, Chukwu said: “My uncle, Ojee quickly
called the elders in the village to Genesis HOTEL,
Okigwe to hear from the elders whether they will mention his name or suspected
whether he is the one who killed Godwin Igbo. I have serious quarrel with my
uncle for refusing to pay the N2 million he promised us. I was given N60,000 as
a share of the MONEY we collected from the deceased’s
family.”
Another suspect, Udoh Amaechi Oko, who hails from Afikpo
Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, explained: “It was Chukwu who contacted
our gang leader, ‘Black’ who is now late, that we should kidnap Godwin Igbo
over a land and chieftaincy dispute with his uncle, Rev Lord Ojee. We kidnapped
the deceased and kept him in the boot of the car. Later, he died”.
“We called the deceased’s family and demanded N2 million
and they paid N500,000 and I was given a share of N80,000”, he said .
In his reaction, Rev Lord Ojee told Saturday Sun: “I have been in ministry for almost 50
years. It is true I had a misunderstanding with the deceased, Godwin Igbo for
over 10 years. I know the suspect, Adindu Chukwu, he is my elder sister’s son.
I heard that Igbo died when they kidnapped him”, he said.
CP Adamu, however, stated that the suspects would soon
be charged to court, saying the police had already gone to the scene of the
crime to exhume the corpse of Godwin Igbo.
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