What
could have prompted a 19-year-old boy to hack to death his 55-year-old
benefactor who assisted him to get a job in order to earn a living? Read
below and find out.
A 19-year-old boy, Cephas Abass from Benue state who hacked to
death his 55-year-old benefactor who assisted him to get a job in order
to earn a living, has been paraded by the Edo State Police Command.
While describing the incident as wicked, the Edo state commissioner
of police, Haliru Gwandu, said that a 55-year-old man identified as
Aniete, from Akwa Ibom state took Cephas Benin to work at a plantation
but unknown to late Aniete, Cephas had his eyes on Aniete’s motorcycle.
According to Vanguard, after killing his victim, Cephas took the
motorcycle to where it could be sold and in the process, he was nabbed.
The Police commissioner said; “This is a very pathetic
situation because this man he killed took him out for a job to make
money and this boy took a cutlass and cut the victim from behind and ran
away with the motorcycle abandoning the dead man there.
"But God punished him because God knows he was wicked to the
victim. As he was making arrangement to sell the motorcycle, the people
insisted he must produce the receipt before they could buy it and while
he was pretending and confused as to what to do next, my men accosted
them at the check point and he finally confessed and was arrested."
Narrating how he murdered Aniete, Cephas said: “I killed Aniete
but poverty made me to commit that crime. What happened was that he
took me to Benin to work but while we were coming back I asked him to
stop somewhere and I took the cutlass I saw around to kill him.
"We work at Okomu Rubber Company but he told me there was a job
in Benin that he would take me to. So he took me to Benin and while we
were in the rubber plantation, I decided to use the cutlass to kill him
because I wanted to steal the motorcycle so that I can sell it to make
money.
"But I was arrested when I went to sell the motorcycle in a
nearby community. They asked me for the receipt of the motorcycle but I
could not produce it and that was when they suspected that I may have
stolen it.
"I told them the receipt was at the rubber plantation, so they
followed me back to where I said I came from. It was while we were on
our way that the police stopped us at a check point and they told the
police they were taking me to look for the invoice of the motorcycle.
The police started interrogating me and I told them what happened and
they arrested me”.
