32years old man kill his boss for #150,000

A look at 32 year-old Sani Saidu , will never pass
him for a betrayer, let alone a killer , owing to his
quiet disposition and soft wayof speaking.
But his disposition has only proved to be deceptive
after all , as he is currently cooling his heels at the
Lagos State Criminal Investigations
Department,SCID, Yaba , Lagos, over a case of
alleged m****r.
The Gombe state born suspect allegedly stabbed
one Mr Shittu Aremu, driver of a truck to death
while accompanying him to Port Harcourt, Rivers
state, destination of the 40,000 litre of petroleum
product .
The late Aremu whose age was put around56 years,
was a driver to S.K Transport Service Nigeria
Limited .
He reportedly loaded the truck with plate number
AGL 368 XA with aviation fuel worth N5.5 million
and consequently left Lagos for Port Harcourt on
November 13, 2014, to discharge the product.
But before leaving Lagos State, he was said to have
invited Saidu to work with himas his motor boy,
with a promise to pay him an undisclosed amount
at the end of the trip. But little did he realize that
the invitation would end his life.
The first sign that signalled an unpalatable
situation for the truck driver, followed difficulty by
his employee to reach him on his mobile phone,
two days after he embarked on the journey.
Further checks from the tracking device on the
truck reportedly showed that the truck had been
diverted from its original route to somewhere
around Mutum Biu, in Taraba state.
Suspecting that the driver had a sinister motive up
his sleeve ,the company reportedly lodged a
complaint at the State Criminal Investigation
Department SCID, Yaba,
where detectives swung into action by travelling to
Taraba state.
Fortunately for them, the truck was recovered at
the Taraba state Police Command, with only Saidu,
the motorboy.
l stabbed him, threw him out of the truck
Preliminary investigation as gathered , revealed
that Saidu allegedly murdered the truck driver
before diverting the truck to the northern part of
the country.
In this interview, Saidu gave a graphic description
of how he stabbed his master with a knife and
threw him out of the truck, before taking over the
steering..
Asked what made him carry out such dastardly act,
Saidu replied :
“ I killed Mr Aremu because I wanted to sell the
aviation fuel and use the money to travel to Dubai
on a business trip”Narrating how he snuffed life
out of Aremuwhom he fondly called baba Oyo, ,
Saidu said:
“ A day after we left Lagos, at about 6pm, the
company called baba Oyo and instructed him to
park at Umunede, Delta state for security reason
and that he should proceed on the journey the
following day.
While there , I bought a knife without him
knowing and tied it with a rope on my leg.
Very early the third day, baba Oyo started the
ignition to continue the journey.
As he was about to move, I told him that one of the
tyres had developed a fault.
I came out of the vehicle and pretended to be
checking the tyres.
I went to his side of the truck, bent down as if
checking the tyres and in the process, I brought
out my knife.
But as I raised my hand to stab him, he held my
hand and we started struggling, in the process of
which the knife cut me on the index finger.
I succeeded in stabbing him first on the lap and
blood started gushing out.
Again, I stabbed him again in the stomach, leaving
the knife in there.
By then he was too weak to shout.
Thereafter, I pushed him out of the vehicle and
mounted the driver’s seat and zoomed off.
Diverts truck to the north
My intention was to take the aviation fuel to
Taraba state and sell it at the black market.
When I got to Adamawa state, I sold four drums ,
at the rate of N28,000 perdrum.
On reaching Katsina Ala, the truck developed a
fault and I ended up spendingN57,000 to fix it.
I continued the journey but on reaching Mutum
Biu, I was stopped by some soldiers who were on a
joint operation with the Police, at a check point.
They demanded for the way bill and I showed
them.
But one of the policemen asked where the plate
number was and I brought it out from where I
kept it.
I had earlier removed it because the company’s
number was inscribed on it.
When the policemen dialled the telephone number,
they discovered that the vehicle was supposed to be
heading for Port Harcourt.
When they asked what it was doing at Taraba, I
could not provide a ready answer and I was
subsequently apprehended.
”I wanted to raise 150,000The father of five whose
family resides in Adamawa state further disclosed
that “ I did what I did in order to raise N150,000
fora ticket to Dubai.
A friend of mine who lives in Kano usually travels
to Dubai to buy handsets and sell in Kano.
He told me he would take me down if I could raise
N150,000.
That was why I did what I did. But with the look
of things, it is obvious that I am in a big trouble
and may never come out of from it for the rest of
my life”, he stated remorsefully.
Information at Crime Guard’s disposal revealed that
operatives at the SCID would be leaving Lagos for
Umunede in Delta state, to inspect the spot where
the suspect claimed to have thrown Aremu’s body,
with a view to ascertaining whether he is alive or
not.
Police sources however hinted that the driver’s
seat of the recovered truck was stained with blood,
adding that at the end of investigation, the suspect
would be charged to court for m****r and stealing.