We where paid N150,000 to kill school proprietor

The Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Ikeja,
Lagos, has arrested three men, who
claimed they were contracted to kill a 65-
year-old school proprietress, Mrs. Veronica
Okenido,
A police source told Saturday PUNCH on
Friday that the leader of the gang was 25-
year-old Jude Ekpenisi, who confessed that
were paid by an undisclosed person to
assassinate the woman.
According to a statement Jude made, they
pitied Okenido because she is a Christian.

"We had compassion on the woman and
rejected the N150,000 we were offered
but asked the woman to pay us off with
the same amount," the suspect said.
The other two suspects are Jude's brother,
22-year-old David, and Philemon Uwadi,
also 22.

After a report was made to the police, the
officer-in-charge, SARS, Superintendent of
Police Abba Kyari, tracked down the gang
leader through his brother's phone line.

Our source said, "Jude was arrested after
he was lured out by a promise of a
lucrative employment in a big church. A
SARS operative posed as the pastor.

"The third suspect, Uwadi, reported at the
SARS Scorpion Building by himself not
knowing that Jude had been arrested in
connection with the assassination attempt
they had abandoned because their victim
was not cooperating."
David was arrested when he went to visit
his brother at SARS office.

Jude said his house shares a fence with
Okenido's school and that the woman even
knew him but had no idea he was the one
who planned the kidnap.

The spokesperson for the Lagos State
Police Command, Ngozi Braide, was not
available for comment as she was said to
have travelled.

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