SECURITY agents have established that the killers of the former Deputy Governor of Anambra State under Chief Chukwuemeka Ezeife, Dr. Chudi Nwike took the action because they felt short changed by the person that brought the ransom to them, investigations have revealed.
It was gathered y that though the kidnappers demanded for N30 million ransom, the person (names withheld), a staff of a new generation bank in Asaba, sent to pay them, delivered a cheque for five million naira which got the hoodlums angry.
Security sources disclosed that preliminary investigations revealed that the kidnappers felt shortchanged by the man that brought the money and held him and the driver that brought him down along with their prime hostage.
“It is apparent that the kidnappers felt they were shortchanged. From preliminary investigations, we discovered that they felt that the person that brought the ransom of N5 million for the release of Dr. Nwike must have kept the balance of N25 million behind,” a security source stated.
It was further gathered that Dr. Nwike personally issued three cheques to be withdrawn for payment of his release but all of them bounced hence relations raised the five million cash and was sent to the abductors.
Dr. Nwike, National Vice Chairman of Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) was abducted three weeks ago in Anambra State but his lifeless body was found penultimate Sunday at Alizomor, a community close to Agbor in Delta State.
His body was found along with that of the banker and a driver yet to be identified by security agents.
Dr. Nwike served under Governor Chukwuemeka Ezeife between 1992 and 1993.
Meanwhile, relations of the slain Dr. Nwike had met with Delta State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Ikechukwu Aduba over the incident and requested for the release of his body for burial.
It was gathered that Mr. Aduba refused the release of the body for now to enable proper investigations to be carried out by his men.
The Police Commissioner could not be reached at the time of filing this report.
But a Senior Security source said that the state commissioner of Police had briefed Delta State Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan and the Inspector-General of Police on the matter.
Meanwhile the bodies of the victims had been deposited at the Central Hospital Mortuary, Agbor with stern looking security agents keeping watch over the hospital.
