How man was abducted, killed and buried by father's client

Late Ukonga

According to a report, one Osaretin Enabulele  , accompanied by four others identified as Elisha Jonah, Kazeem Ibrahim, Charles Timinnemi, a Medical student in Romania who was on holiday and the forth identified simply as Fred, abducted and murdered one Ukonga, who had just returned home after completing his Masters in Turkey. 

Ukonga's father, a retired Customs Officer also a clearing and forwarding agent was called on the phone by the lead man, Enabulele, an importer who resides in Benin city, Edo state, that he was bringing the original copy of the bill of laden of a one by 40 feet  container, to facilitate its clearance from the Apapa Port in Lagos.

On getting to the house, Enabulele was said to have meet the son Ukonga's, and requested that Ukonga follow him to the car to get the document for his father who was then in Benin city. 

After Ukonga’s friend(names withheld) reportedly waited in vain for his return. Curiously, he stepped out of the house to look for him but did not see him nor either of the visitor.  But as he looked round, he saw Ukonga’s pair of slippers in a disarrayed manner. Sensing trouble, he put a call to  Ukonga’s phone only to discover it was switched off. Thereafter, he contacted his father who was in Benin city, to inform him of the ugly development before reporting the matter at the area ‘F’ division.

The search for the kidnappers proved abortive, the case was then that transferred to SARS and DSS. This action paid off, as Elisha Jonah one of the men who reportedly visited that fateful day was arrested in January 2015, six months after. He was arrested through Enero Ukonga’s stolen Black Berry phone. The phone was said to have been traced to a user in Ikeja, Lagos. By the time the user was arrested, he told the DSS operatives that he bought it from a friend. At the end, it was discovered that five persons had used the phone, with the seller traced to Jonah .

Jonah’s confessional statement then led to the arrest of Kazeem Ibrahim(one of the kidnappers), popularly called big daddy, during interrogation, the duo disclosed that Ukonga was dead and buried in a shallow grave at Abesan’s estate, Iyana Ipaja area of Lagos, close to Kazeem’s house.

But when the suspects were interrogated by operatives at Alagbon, they denied having a hand in Ukonga’s death. 

According to Kazeem they did not know how he died. 

He said "On that day, Osareti Onabulele called Charles that he had a business deal in Ikeja and needed some help. Charles contacted Elisha who thereafter, contacted me. We went there, parked a Toyota Camry car owned by one of us,  Elisha in front of the building. By the time Enero was bought out of his house into the car, Elisha was attending to an injury I sustained on the leg.  When we got into the car, we discovered that he(Ukonga) was gasping”.

Asked how the body was buried in the shallow grave, the suspects alleged that Enabulele instructed them to bury him there, in order to avoid arrest.

Asked what went wrong  between the victim’s father and the importer, Enabulele, the bereaved father explained that Enabulele was introduced to him by a family friend. Later, Enabulele contacted him in Benin, saying he had a one by 40 feet container to clear. They settled for N1.5 but he paid N1 million and the clearing process started. After paying Customs duty and other necessary duties, it remained the shipping company which required the original bill of laden of the owner of the container.

But to his surprise, Enabulele called, requesting for the refund of his money which was not possible because the job was 95% concluded.

Later, he called to say he had the bill of laden and the senior Ukonga told him to take it to his manager in Lagos. But because that day was a Saturday, the Manager asked him to drop the document at Ukonga's house in Opebi not knowing Enabulele had a sinister motive,following the adoption of his son. 

The whereabouts of Osareti Enabulele, the alleged mastermind, is still unknown and has been declared wanted.,