Okada rider kills trader, sells body parts to ritualists

A 25-year-old Okada rider, Onos Simon, one of the principal suspects in the murder of Mrs Patience Komore has confessed to selling the murdered trader’s body parts for N100,000.

Simon who was paraded at the Delta State Police Command headquarters in Asaba, said he conveyed the female trader on the pretext Police arrest 11 amid probe into hate comments about English footballersof showing her where to buy pepper.

Simon said, “My friend told me to convey the woman to a place where she could buy pepper. When we got there, I called Akpoghene shoemaker that we were already there and he said we should come inside.

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“We walked into the bush; at a point, the woman said she was not buying the pepper again and that she wanted to go to another place to make the purchase.

“As we were going back, the woman was in the front, Akpoghene in the middle, while I was at the back; it was in the process of going back that Akpoghene dealt a machete blow on the woman and she fell down.

“We raped the woman before she died; we checked her bag and took the N40,000 in it; Akpoghene later plucked out her eyes and cut off her private parts. After that, we cut grasses to cover her corpse.

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“We sold the parts for N100,000 to one Lucky Daniel. Akpoghene gave me N50,000 as my share. This is my first time of getting involved in such a crime. I did not know that Akpoghene is a ritualist.”

The Delta State Police Commissioner, Mohammed Ali, said the victim, Mrs Patience Komore, was reported missing after mounting on Simon’s motorcycle at the Umeh Market in the Isoko South Local Government Area of Delta State.

“Acting on a tip-off, on August 3, one Onos Simon, 25, an Okada man, was arrested. He was the same person who conveyed the woman on that fateful day.

“On interrogation, the suspect confessed to the killing of the missing woman, Mrs. Patience Komore, in connivance with one Akpoghene Shoemaker, who is now at large.”

Ali said the decomposing corpse had been recovered and deposited in the mortuary.