By Suleiman Anyalewechi
The Police Command in Delta state ,on Monday July 14, 2025, said that efforts are underway to unravel the actual circumstances surrounding the alleged murder of a middle aged man by his employee.
Anwaji Moses, a 26-year old apprentice/employee was alleged to have snuffed life out of his 38-year old boss, allegedly, over unpaid salary arrears.
A statement issued by the Delta State Police Command spokesperson, Bright Edafe, informed that the deceased Victor Ochei was killed by his apprentice over alleged failure to pay him about six months accumulated salaries.
According to Edafe, Moses has confessed to killing his boss over disagreements arising from his refusal to pay him over N 300,000 accumulated salaries.
“The deceased met his death when he was going to his site alongside his boy, someone he employed and paid salaries.
The suspect is however claiming that the man had been owing him for about between six to eight months, the sum of N 300,000, and because he was angry with his employer, that was why he murdered him with a pestle.
The deceased had an oil milling factory where this boy ( suspect) was also working for him” the Police spokesman revealed.
In his confessional statement ,the suspect noted that at a point he stopped working for his late employer over his failure to fulfill his contractual obligations.
But he had to return back to work after much pleas from his boss who, instead of making efforts to pay him his salary arrears, resorted to giving him a daily feeding allowance of N500 (five hundred naira).
“Each time I demanded to be paid ,he ( employer ) would tell me that I am being in a hurry; and that I should calm down ,that he is building a house .In all these ,he was aware that I don’t have any other sources of assistance”, Moses stated.
The suspect informed that he hit the deceased twice with a pestle in the wake of a hot exchange of words, while both of them were headed for the purchase of palm fruits for palm oil precessing .
Moses, who bolted away with the deceased’s motorcycle ,and phone after hiding his corpse ,was later to demand a ransom of N10m from his late boss’s family when they called to ascertain his whereabouts.
The suspect had claimed that his murdered employer was holed up in a kidnappers den , following a call from his worried sister .
” I was scared ,and didn’t want anybody to discover. So I took his phone ,and when his sister called, I told her that she should send me money because he had been kidnapped.
“I asked for N10 million to be paid into an Opay account, Moses narrated .
The police authorities said that while the corpse of the deceased has been deposited in the morgue , further investigations are ongoing .
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