Lover masterminds boyfriend’s murder as Suspect said I discovered he was just using me for sex

A suspected evil lover is now in police custody in Rivers State for alleged plot to kill her lover.

The suspect, Loretta Odikagbo, aged 20, allegedly conspired with her in-law, Ime Francis Moses to allegedly murder her boyfriend, Charles Oresanya, who hails from Akoko, Ondo State.

Crime Watch Today learnt that while Loretta and Moses are chatting with detectives at the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), the third suspect is on the run.

The incident which happened at  5  Njoku Close, Wogi Port- Harcourt, was said to have thrown the neighbourhood into confusion.

The Commissioner of Police, Mr. Dan Bature, told Crime Watch Today that  Loretta  killed his boyfriend for failing to meet her monetary demands.

He said he  allowed Moses to deal with her lover  by attacking and robbing him.

He explained that the incident happened on September  19, 2014 when Loretta  conspired with  Moses and one other person who is now  at large  to kill Oresanya when they followed her to his residence.

He said after Loretta had sex with Oresanya  and as he was relaxing thereafter, she allegedly  opened the door as Moses and the other man entered the house, and  pretended to be armed robbers.

“ When they came they tied Oresanya’s legs and hands  with rope and taped his mouth. He was thereafter strangulated to death. They later requested for his Automated Teller Machine (ATM) and  Loretta had already knew the pin number.   So, they took  the ATM card away.  They used  the card to withdraw  N120,000 and shared the money,” he said.

He said that  the trio went back to  Oresanya’s house and  packed the deceased’s property and Loretta took  his lover’s phone and removed the SIM card.

The Assistant Commissioner of Police, SCID, Mr. Tunji Disu, said that it was  through  information  that  his team arrested Loretta and Moses.

ACP Disu explained that it was the neighbours  that discovered that Oresanya was dead after three days.  He contacted his place of work, Halliburton Company at Trans Amadi area of Port- Harcourt and from there, they  reported the matter to the  Wogi Police Station before the case was transferred  to  the SCID.

He said the two suspects are still in SCID custody, noting that they have confessed  while the stolen properties have been recovered from them.

Loretta told Crime Watch Today  that, “ I am a girlfriend to  the deceased , Bankole Oresanya.  We met  through Facebook and we started our love  since January 2014. I have my Ordinary National Diploma (OND) from the  Rivers State Polytechnic at Bori. My late boyfriend, deceived me that he is single and  later I discovered that he is married.

“ He promised  to send me back to school and I continued dating him  based on the promise. Later,  I discovered  that  he was deceiving me and he could not fulfil the promise. I was annoyed  and I never gained anything from him, he was just having sex with me.

“ I have to arrange with  my in-law, Ime Francis  Moses with one of his gang members on that fateful day.  Moses and  his friend followed me to his house and I gave them  N800 to buy cello tape and rope which we used to carry out  the devilish act.

“When we had sex on that day. I went downstairs to open the kitchen and asked my two accomplices to come in  and they pretended to be armed robbers. They entered and beat me and  they first demanded for his  ATM card and  I  quickly  made  him to give them the ATM card.   He did and also gave them  the Pin number,” she confessed.

“The ugly incident happened around 8pm and ended around 10pm. I followed the other gang members to the ATM and we withdraw N120,000. I gave them N50,000. When I got to my boyfriend, he was tied and they cellotaped his mouth and used nylon bag to cover his head before they strangulated him.

“We have to steal  his property. I took his telephone and the laptop and I ran away.”

On his part, Moses said, he is an in-law  to Loretta.  She called me on phone that I should come and help her embarrass her boyfriend. On the day of the incident, Loretta took us to the boyfriend’s  house and she went inside and told us to pretend to be armed robbers. Later, she came and opened the kitchen door and we came and saw them having sex and I pointed a torch at them and demanded for  ATM card, which Loretta forced him to give me and he gave me the Pin number.

“ It was Loretta who went and brought the rope  and tied his two legs, cello tape his mouth and covered his head with nylon bag, we strangulated him and he died.

“She went to the ATM card and withdraw N120,000.  She gave us N50,000. I called her  whether she had withdrawn the money which she said she had done. Loretta came to meet us  at her boyfriend’s house and  discovered that he was dead.

“ We have to steal  his property and took his shirts while Loretta stole  his LG phone and  his laptop. It was when police arrested Loretta that I was also caught,” he said.

He also confessed that Loretta had used him to deal with another boyfriend in the past.

“ In 2012, Loretta called me  that she was having a misunderstanding  with  his boyfriend and she gave me the  boyfriend’s spare key and we both carried away his property while he was away from home. I was arrested by policemen from Elekahia  before I was released on bail,” he confessed.

CP Bature said that the  two suspects will soon be charged to court for alleged murder.