Man, 44, Docked For Allegedly Hiring Assasins To Kill Victim Over N8m Debt

MICHAEL AKINOLA 

A 44-year old man, Sunday Dimudi, has been arrested and charged in Lagos State for allegedly conspiring and hiring assasins to eliminate a man, Sunday Igwe, over N8m he was paid for roofing work in a hotel. 

 

P.M.EXPRESS reports that the target,  Sunday Igwe’s relation, Mimie Igwe, paid the suspect the sum of over N8m for roofing job in her hotel. But after he collected the money, he bolted away and did not do the roofing job.

 

However, when the complainant confronted him at Transformer Area of Ejigbo, Lagos, over the job he had collected the money to do, he reportedly hired two boys to eliminate him but the complainant managed to escape.

 

The matter was reported to the Police at Ejigbo Division. The suspect was arrested and detained at the station for interrogation over his alleged conduct against the complainant.

 

After interrogation, the Police found him culpable and charged him before the Ejigbo Magistrate Court for the alleged offence which attracts several years of imprisonment.

 

The charges read:

“That you, Sunday Dimudi ‘m’, 10th June 2025, at about 1030hrs, at Transformer Area Ejigbo Lagos State, in the Lagos Magisterial District, did obtain the sum of Eight Million One Hundred Thousand Naira (N8,100,000.00), from one Mimie Igwe ‘f’ under false pretence of doing roofing job in her hotel and thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 314 (2) of the criminal law of Lagos State of Nigeria 2015.”

 

Count II: “That Sunday Dimudi ‘m’, on the same date, time and place, in the aforesaid Magisterial District, did threaten to kill one Sunday Igwe ‘m’ through 2 (two) unknown boys and thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 56 of the criminal law of Lagos State of Nigeria 2015.”

 

However,  he pleaded not guilty.

 

The prosecutor, Inspector Simeon Njue, asked the Court to give a date for hearing since he pleaded not guilty to enable the Police to prove that he actually committed the alleged offence.

 

The Presiding Magistrate, Mr. T.A. Popoola, granted him bail with two sureties, who must show evidence of means of livelihood and tax payment while addresses will be verified by the Court.

 

The matter was adjourned for mention while the defendant was remanded in custody at the correctional center at Kirikiri town, Lagos, pending when he will perfect his bail conditions.