Apprentice kills boss, dumps corpse inside well in Ondo

  A 20-year-old apprentice, Josiah Godwin, has allegedly killed his master, Savior Joseph, and dumped his corpse in a well at a site where the two were working at Imafon Community, in Akure South Local Government Area of Ondo State.

The Post gathered that trouble started when the deceased, a POP asbestos professional, smashed the apprentice’s phone over an undisclosed dispute.

THE VICTIM

While narrating the incident, to Journalists in Akure on Thursday, the elder brother of the deceased, Odey Julius Ogbaji, said the the 27-year-old deceased’s body was found four days ago in a well at the site where the deceased and the apprentice went to work at Imafon Community.His words: “Last week Tuesday, the deceased called me in the morning and we spoke. But on Wednesday, I tried his number but couldn’t get through, I thought he had a flat battery, until Saturday that I was called by another younger brother of mine who briefed me on how efforts to reach the deceased have been abortive.

“Afterwards, the deceased’s apprentice was contacted. When they got the boy, they asked him about the whereabouts of his master and he said his boss woke him up at night, collected his phone smatch it on the floor and began to beat him and later asked him to sleep.

“He said, the following day, he decided to leave the site. So, we asked him, how will he wake up in the morning without seeing your boss and you left the site? He said, he thought his master went to the toilet when he left.

“When we checked the phone he claimed to have been smashed on the floor by the deceased, there was no scratch on it. Aside that, he switched off his phone and didn’t report to anybody,” he explained.

Also, an in-law to the deceased, Mr Ogar Julius said the suspect has been arrested and transferred to the Police Criminal Investigative Department (CID), at the Policy headquarters, Akure.

The Police Public Relations Officer in the State, Funmilayo Odunlami-Omisayan confirmed the incident.