A Chinese, Sung Hun AKA ‘Tiger’ and a Nigerian are being held by detectives of the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), Panti of the Lagos State Command, over a murder attempt on a businessman.
It was gathered that the Chinese suspect had paid N1million to a ‘killer’ squad to eliminate the said business partner.
Lagos State police boss Fatai Owoseni told newsmen that the suspect was nabbed after a tipoff that he had contacted a Nigerian, one Chika Eze, to help him hire assassins to eliminate his Nigerian business partner for allegedly duping him.
“The contract sum of the assassination is 1.5m naira out of which 1.4m has been paid with a promise to balance up after the deed has been done. Both suspects have confessed to the crime with a sum of N1.4million naira already recovered from them. Investigation is ongoing while police is on the trail of two other suspects who are at large,” Owoseni said.
The suspect told newsmen that the money he paid to the suspected killers was meant for charms and not for murder. “I am a dealer in footwear, the victim is my partner and customer whom I supply shoes to. He has been owing me the sum of N4 million. The money I paid to the men I hired were for them to prepare me a powerful charm so that he won’t kill me. I did not plan to kill him. Rather, he was the one threatening to kill me,” he said.
