A
20-year-old man Godwin Odu, has been arrested by the police in Calabar
for allegedly stabbing Boniface Odinaka, a student of Army Day
Secondary School, 3 Amphibious Brigade, Eburutu Barracks, Calabar to
death.
Odinaka, who was the Labour Prefect of the school, was attacked for confiscating the sandals of another student, Francis Etim.
He was said to have engaged the services of Odu who was his friend and an alleged cultist.
Odu
who is from Akwa Ibom State, is currently detained at the state
Criminal Investigation Department, CID, Diamond Hill, Calabar.
On
why he killed Odinaka, he said his friend, Francis Etim, asked him to
assist him recover a pair of sandals which Odinaka seized over alleged
improper dressing.
Asked
if he knew the name of the Labour Prefect, Odu said they laid ambush
with Etim for Odinaka at the school gate waiting for closing hour when
students were returning home.
In
a statement at the Homicide Unit of the state CID, Odu confirmed that
he attacked Odinaka from the rear and as the SSS II boy struggled to
free himself, it resulted to a fight which caused his death.
Fielding
questions from the Officer-in-Charge of Homicide, Mr. Joseph Inuyashe,
DSP, Odu said: “The boy Odinaka is the cause of every thing that has
brought me here. My friend, Francis Etim, came from school and told me
that one senior student seized his sandals.”
Minutes after Odinaka was killed, Etim fled the area, but he was later arrested.
Odu
who was identified as a dropout, said he attended Government Technical
School, Ikot Ansa, Calabar and abandoned his studies as “some bad boys
were after me.”
He
pleaded that he was still a minor, claiming he was 14 years old, but
when asked the year he was born, his years in primary and secondary
school, he later said he was 20 years old.
Mr.
Inuyashe, DSP, said the state Government frowned at cultism and other
nefarious acts, saying Udo will be promptly charged to court, since he
has admitted killing the boy.
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