A Warri, Delta State-based businessman, Kingsley Agbaire, who allegedly killed his business partner, broke down as the deceased’s body was being exhumed on Wednesday and asked the victim’s ghost for forgiveness.
A video posted online on Thursday showed Agbaire in handcuffs, crying out to his victim, identified as 51-year-old Lawrence Okoh, a Port Harcourt, Rivers State-based auto parts dealer, as security agents worked to extract the corpse of Okoh in a shallow grave where it was dumped in Warri.
Agbaire said “Lawrence, forgive me o. It was the devil that pushed me into killing you.”
He also begged the police to loosen his handcuffs so that he could beg his victim, but this request was rejected for fear that he might escape.
Agbaire said in the video that his business relationship with Okoh started few years ago when he was working in Lagos and dealing in auto parts.
The relationship continued normally, until August 2, when Okoh reportedly took some auto parts to Lawrence in Warri, Punch learnt.
On the night of August 3, after making the delivery which was worth about N1.6m, Agbaire and an accomplice allegedly paid a visit to the house the deceased stayed in anytime he was in Warri.
While in the house, Agbaire said they smashed a bottle on his victim’s head and he died without putting up much of a fight.
According to him, Okoh could not raise the alarm because he was already weak.
After the murder, Agbaire and his accomplice reportedly dragged the body of the deceased to an uncompleted building beside the house and buried him in a shallow grave.
In the video, security agents did not take long to unearth the body after Agbaire pointed out where they buried the body. The remains were then packed in a white casket as Agbaire shook his head and appeared to sob.
The spokesperson for the Delta State Police Command, Celestina Kalu, who confirmed the story, said the police are still on the trail of the fleeing accomplice and that investigation was still ongoing on the case.
She said Agbaire would be charged to court soon.
Source: Punch
A video posted online on Thursday showed Agbaire in handcuffs, crying out to his victim, identified as 51-year-old Lawrence Okoh, a Port Harcourt, Rivers State-based auto parts dealer, as security agents worked to extract the corpse of Okoh in a shallow grave where it was dumped in Warri.
Agbaire said “Lawrence, forgive me o. It was the devil that pushed me into killing you.”
He also begged the police to loosen his handcuffs so that he could beg his victim, but this request was rejected for fear that he might escape.
Agbaire said in the video that his business relationship with Okoh started few years ago when he was working in Lagos and dealing in auto parts.
The relationship continued normally, until August 2, when Okoh reportedly took some auto parts to Lawrence in Warri, Punch learnt.
On the night of August 3, after making the delivery which was worth about N1.6m, Agbaire and an accomplice allegedly paid a visit to the house the deceased stayed in anytime he was in Warri.
While in the house, Agbaire said they smashed a bottle on his victim’s head and he died without putting up much of a fight.
According to him, Okoh could not raise the alarm because he was already weak.
After the murder, Agbaire and his accomplice reportedly dragged the body of the deceased to an uncompleted building beside the house and buried him in a shallow grave.
In the video, security agents did not take long to unearth the body after Agbaire pointed out where they buried the body. The remains were then packed in a white casket as Agbaire shook his head and appeared to sob.
The spokesperson for the Delta State Police Command, Celestina Kalu, who confirmed the story, said the police are still on the trail of the fleeing accomplice and that investigation was still ongoing on the case.
She said Agbaire would be charged to court soon.
Source: Punch