The operatives of the Inspector General of Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT) have arrested the suspected killers murder of one Emmanuel Uba aka Onwa, a rising politician and youth leader in Festac area of Lagos State. Uba was gruesomely killed on July 21, 2017 along 7th Avenue Festac.
A manhunt was launched for his killers following the directives issued by the Acting Commissioner of Police , Edgar Imohinmi.
The suspects were eventually arrested and a pistol used for the murder recovered. One of the suspects Fatai Onifade alias Apase, 40, a native of Ilaje Ondo State, who confessed to have organised the assassination because Uba had become more popular than him among the political chieftains and youth leaders in the area.
Another suspects, Abidemi Kolawole alias Baido, 42, also an indigene of Ondo State, confessed to be a friend of the Uba and that his role was to lure the deceased to a meeting at 7th Avenue where the two assassins already waiting on a motorcycle assassinated Uba.
Also, two other suspects, Mufutai Tokosi alias TK, 31, who hails from Lagos Island and Michael Fashola, an indigene of Ibadan, confessed that they are cultists hired by Onifade to kill Uba.
The pistol used in assassinating the victim, it was gathered, was recovered from Onifade.
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