Man Tortures Apprentice To Death Over Allegations Of Poor Sales

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.