More details have emerged from the brutal

killing of a delivery man with an online

marketing store, Jumia, Mr. Chukwuma

Eleje, in a house on Ada George Road, Port

Harcourt, Rivers State.

The victim was said to be delivering two
iPhones to some customers, who had
ordered for them through the Internet on
Saturday, when he was attacked and killed.
The assailants were reported to have
dumped his remains in a septic tank in a
desperate attempt to cover up the crime.
However, operatives of the Special Anti-
Robbery Squad were said to have been
alerted by residents.

The officials were reported to have
swooped on the suspects in their apartment
on Monday.

The state police spokesperson, DSP Nnamdi
Omoni, who confirmed the incident, said
the suspects – Sodienye Mbatumukeke,
Excel Naabe, and Joy Eluwa – upon their
arrest, confessed to the crime.

Eluwa was said to be Mbatumukeke’s
girlfriend.

He said,

Omoni added that the state Commissioner

of Police, Zaki Ahmed, who led other senior

police officers to the scene, appealed to
members of the public to always share
information with the police. The two prime
suspects, however, passed the bulk to each
other.

Naabe, who claimed to be on a visit, said
he saw Mbatumukeke pushing the deceased
into the septic tank.

He said,

''The second suspect, Mbatumukeke, claimed

that Naabe killed the victim, adding that he
hit the courier man with an iron on the
head.''

When one of Punch’s correspondents
visited the scene on Tuesday, he observed
that the house was deserted.

It was gathered that most of the tenants in
the building began to leave the house after
policemen recovered the corpse.


“Operatives of SARS, acting on
credible intelligence on
Monday, at about 3am arrested
three suspects– two males and
a female– identified as Sodienye
Mbatumukeke, Excel Divine
Naabe, and Joy Eluwa.
“ ”
“These armed robbers ordered
smartphones from a certain
courier company in Rivers
State. Then the company sent
the phones through a dispatch
rider. On getting there, the
hoodlums beat up the dispatch
rider and later shot him; he
died inside their flat.
“ ”
“After killing him, they threw
his corpse into a septic tank.
Our men, who were acting on
credible intelligence, arrested
the suspects and they showed
us where they hid the corpse.”
“ ”
“On my way to this place, I
saw him (Mbatumukeke); he
was packaging something like a
black waste bin. He was saying
I should just go inside and chill
out. He said he would soon join
me in the room.
“ ”
“I overheard some neighbours
asking him what he was doing
close to the septic tank and he
gave them an excuse. I went
inside and saw bloodstains in
the bathroom.
“ ”
“When I queried him, he
brought out a gun and pointed
it at me, saying if I uttered a
word about what I saw, he
would kill all my family
members.”
“ ”
“He hit him with iron on the
head and blood was gushing
out. I was afraid; I was
vibrating. I didn’t know what
to do. God is my witness,” he
added.

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