Kenechukwu Eze, a native of Amoli Edem in the Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State has confessed that his gang of internet fraudsters killed the late Emmanuel Agundu, former Chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association, Udenu branch, because he withheld the N18m they realized from Internet fraud. The money was reportedly paid into his Nigerian bank account.
Eze made the confession on Wednesday in Enugu when he was paraded by the police for his involvement in the crime.
Agundu was shot on August 15, 2018, at Obollo-Afor in the Udenu Local Government Area of the state by unidentified gunmen, but he survived the attack.
But on September 2, 2018, he was trailed to Uru-Uwani Edem in the Nsukka Local Government Area around 2pm and shot again. This time he did not survive.
The gunmen, who shot the late NBA chairman was arrested and remanded in prison custody, however 37-year-old Eze, a member of the five-man gang of Internet fraudsters based in Morocco, was arrested on July 10, 2019, by operatives of the Enugu State Police Command.
Eze admitted and said, “I didn’t know the lawyer in person, but one of our members brought him to join us in the business. His job was to supply a bank account to pay the money we realised into.
“So, we paid a total of N18m into the account he supplied and when we asked him to provide the money, he rebuffed us. Instead of making the money available for us to share according to our agreed formula, he started threatening to report the matter to security agents. That was why we decided to end it once and for all.
“I was arrested because of the death of that lawyer that we did a fraudulent transaction together. He spent N18m and was killed because of that. The person, who shot him, is already in prison. We were five in number; Emmanuel Ebonyi, one Valentine and his younger brother, Agundu and I.
“It was an online business ,but the barrister supplied the account that we paid into. We paid a total of N18m into his account and he kept all the money.”
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