Obasi Okeke, driver attached to Bolt, a cab hailing company, has been killed in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
The FCT Police Command, on Thursday, paraded three students of a private university in Nasarawa State for Okeke’s murder.
The FCT Commissioner of Police, Haruna Garba, paraded the suspects, Obasieyene Inem, Aaron Anthony and Alasan Olusegun, before journalists in Abuja.
Garba said one of the suspects ordered a ride on the Bolt App to take them to and from where they purchased Indian hemp.
He said on returning them to where they booked the ride, the suspects discovered they had no money on them, adding that they decided to trick the driver by showing him a fake debit alert on their phone.
He said, “On June 5, 2023, around 8.30 pm, one Obasi Okeke was discovered lying in his pool of blood with a slit throat at Ngugu Close Area 11 Garki, Abuja.
“The painstaking investigation to ascertain those behind this dastardly act led to the arrest of the three suspects namely Obasieyene Inem, Aaron Anthony and Alasan Olusegun.
“In the course of the investigation, it was discovered that the deceased was a Bolt driver who was called by one of the suspects to convey them to the Guzape Area of Abuja where they had visited to buy Indian hemp. Back from Guzape to their take-off point, they discovered they had no money to pay for their trip, so they decided to play a fast one by showing the deceased a fake debit alert on their phone.”
He added that the Bolt driver’s insistence that he had not seen the alert resulted in an argument.
“The deceased insisted he had not received any alert. In the ensuing argument, one of the suspects slit the deceased’s throat and fled the scene. The three suspects have since confessed to the crime and will be charged soon,” he added.
