TRAGEDY IN ONDO AS APPRENTICE KILLS MASTER, DUMPS CORPSE INSIDE WELL
A 20-year-old apprentice, Josiah Godwin has allegedly hacked down his master, Saviour Joseph, and dumped his corpse in a well at Imafon Community in Akure South Local Government Area of Ondo state.
It was gathered that trouble started when the deceased, who specializes in fixing POP asbestos allegedly smashed the phone of the apprentice on the floor over an unsettled dispute.
While narrating the incident, to Journalists in Akure on Thursday, the elder brother of the deceased, Odey Julius Ogbaji said the 27-year-old deceased body was found four days ago in a well at the site where the deceased and the apprentice went to work at Imafon Community.
Ogbaji said “last week Tuesday, the deceased called me in the morning where 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, which the deceased followed, briefing me on how efforts to reach the deceased has 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, smashed 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 his boss and left the site? He said, he thought his master went to the toilet when he left.
“When we checked the phone he said was 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”, Ogbaji explained.
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.
All efforts to reach the Police Public Relations Officer in the State, Funmilayo Odunlami-Omisayan proved abortive as at the time of filing this report.
