Man Tortures Apprentice To Death Over Allegations Of Poor Sales (Photo)

Family members and relatives of Master
Tochukwu Nwagbala have called on police
to investigate the circumstances
surrounding the alleged murder of their
son.

The late Nwagbala, an apprentice in Benin,
Edo State, was allegedly murdered by his
master under whom he had served for
several years.

The distraught family has petitioned the
state Commissioner of Police, Mr Chris
Ezike, alleging conspiracy among top
officers of the state police command over
Nwagbala’s death. The family asked Ezike
to order investigation to unravel how the
body of Ezike was dumped at the Benin by-
pass.

According to the family, the late Nwagbala
had for over the years managed the
business for his boss.

The master was said to have recently
travelled out of the country.

He was reported to have on return
allegedly tortured the apprentice to death
over allegations of poor returns.
In the petition to the commissioner of
police, the family alleged that it learnt that
Nwagbala was tortured to death by his
boss and others now at large.
Counsel to the family, Lanre Ajetunmobi,
in the petition, said that Nwagbala was
beaten with cane and electric cable by his
boss for several hours and when he
fainted, he took his remains in his car to
Faith Mediplex in Benin.

Ajetunmobi added that at the clinic,
Nwagbala was declared as “brought in
dead,” while an autopsy report by the
police revealed that he died of “acute
cardiovascular failure from severe
torture”.

The lawyer alleged that at the DPO’s office,
Nwagbala’s master feigned ignorance of
the circumstances of the boy’s death, which
warranted the case to be transferred to the
State Criminal Investigations Department
(SCID), Benin.