Afrigather The suspect fled Nigeria for Sierra Leone, the place he reportedly spent $25,000 to buy the nation’s passport beneath a faux identify.
Benjamin Finest Nnanyereugo, popularly often called Killaboi, has been arrested in Sierra Leone one week after the Lagos police declared him needed in reference to the homicide of his girlfriend, Augusta Onuwabhagbe Osedion.
Killaboi had gone underground since he confessed to having killed his girlfriend, a 21-year-old scholar of Lead Metropolis College, in his Oral Property house on July 13, 2023.
Following rising calls by Nigerians for police intervention, the spokesman of the Lagos police command, Benjamin Hundeying, disclosed the drive’s readiness to resolve the case.
In a publish on his X (previously Twitter) account on October 10, Hundeyin introduced that Killaboi has been declared wanted by the Lagos police, urging residents with data relating to his whereabouts to return ahead instantly.
In the meantime, the newest stories mentioned the suspect has been arrested with some girls at a nightclub in Freetown, Sierra Leone, on Friday, October 20, 2023.
In line with the stories, Killaboi modified his identify to Kanu Princeton Samuel and paid $25,000 to buy a Sierra Leonean passport beneath his new nomenclature.
As of the time of this report, the Nigerian police have but to substantiate the suspect’s arrest, however an image of him in handcuffs is already circulating on social media.
His arrest is suspected to be a results of the mixed efforts of the Nigerian police and their counterparts at Interpol.
Background
The tragic incident got here to gentle when Killaboi took to his Instagram web page, @Killaboigram_, to confess to stabbing Osedion throughout a heated argument.
He confessed to the crime after the sufferer was reported lacking and her lifeless physique was found in his residence at Oral Property within the Ikota space of Lagos State.
In a sequence of posts, Killaboi expressed regret, stating, “I wish to do the suitable factor and switch myself in. I’ll gladly die by paying with my life now.”
