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Two suspected robbers have been arrested by the Delta State Police Command for the alleged murder of an Uber driver identified as Dantes in the Effurun area of the state.
PUNCH Metro learnt from a Facebook post by a Delta-based activist, Israel Joe, on Sunday, that the suspects had sought the service of a commercial sex worker before engaging the Uber driver to take them to their destination.
Joe noted that while the driver was conveying them to their destination, the suspects allegedly strangled Dantes with a twine rope, pushed his corpse out of his vehicle, and drove away.
He added that the suspects also allegedly attacked another driver who escaped unhurt and stole his vehicle.
Joe wrote, “As they approached Aziza junction after the Mercy Land church, the fair one brought out a thick twined rope and strangled the driver from behind while the helpless prostitute was bailed up with a knife, by the other dark guy not to make a single noise.
“After strangling the driver, they pushed down his corpse and drove deep into the express where they had pity on the prostitute and dropped her. She had to trek back to town that same midnight.”
He stressed further that the suspects were arrested while attempting to sell the vehicle they had stolen from both victims after the police tracked a stolen phone to their location.
“They took the car to Agbor and put it on sale. They went to Benin and attempted to strangle another Hausa driver but he quickly shifted the car chair back, bent it backwards, opened the door, and ran. But they also brought the car to Warri and put it on sale,” he added.
The Delta State Police Public Relations Officer, Bright Edafe, confirmed the arrest in a telephone chat with our correspondent on Sunday.
“Confirmed,” Edafe said.
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