A brother to Augusta Osedion, a student of Lead City University whose boyfriend, Nnanyereugo Best a.k.a. Killaboi, murdered in Lagos and consequently fled the country said luck played part in the fugitive’s arrest.
Killaboi was arrested in Sierra Leone on Thursday after acquiring the country’s passport with $25,000 and altered his name to Kanu Princeton Samuel.
“So what I did, I sent his passport photographs to all my relatives, friends, and family across the globe and told them he has a tattoo that identifies him.
“So along the line, my cousin in Sierra Leone was the first that hinted me that ‘I saw somebody like him. Immediately, my son and a cousin went to Sierra Leone.
“A day before my son and cousin got to Sierra Leone, they declared Killaboi wanted. He was already hiding in the country,” the bereaved mother, Cordelia Okonye, said in an emotion-laden video of her posted on Facebook on Saturday.
Her son while recounting how Killaboi was apprehended said earlier search produced no fruit, adding that luck was also crucial to his apprehension.
He made this narration on microblogging platform, X, formerly known as twitter, “They had been tracking him for some time, knowing his routines and movements, and their persistence led to his eventual apprehension at a nightclub.
“I’ve spent the last week in Freetown, Sierra Leone. We were in contact with the law enforcement agencies in Sierra Leone to set up ways to apprehend Ben.
“We knew where he slept, we knew where he ate, we trailed him until they were able to apprehend him last night.
“I’ve looked for him everywhere, from Accra to Abidjan, and luck brought him to my path in Freetown.
“Through the efforts of the Sierra Leonean authorities, we’ve finally been able to apprehend him. We hope the Nigerian Police Force work fast to extradite him to face his crimes.”
