The police in Delta state have arrested a 20-year-old native doctor identified as Amechi Okwuokenye for allegedly k!lling his returning customer identified as 22-year-old Friday Liberty, and dumping his body in a septic tank.
According to a statement released, the spokesperson of the command, SP Bright Edafe, said on September 30, late Liberty left his home and never retired as planned.
Edafe said the family, who initially didn’t know what happened to their brother, started looking for him.
The Police PRO said the girlfriend of the deceased then informed the family that she heard a conversation about the said Friday liberty and a certain herbalist, and advised that they should reach out to the said herbalist. The family contacted the herbalist, who denied seeing him but promised to do some spiritual incantations so their brother could return alive. Having spent money on the herbalist, and the result was not forthcoming, they then reported the matter at the Agbor Area command via a petition on 14th October 2025. And this decision proved to be the turning point in the case as the area command detectives embarked on an intelligence-led investigation.
‘’During the course of the investigation, the detectives uncovered the last person whom Friday Liberty contacted, and found out it was the same herbalist who denied knowing his whereabouts. Surveillance was laid around his shrine at Owa-Alidima in Ika North East LGA, for days, until he was arrested on 23rd October 2025, in his shrine while hiding inside a refrigerator. Upon arrest of the herbalist Amechi Okwuokenye, aged 20 years, he confessed that both he and his brother Smart Okwuokenye, aged 26years, k!dnapped the victim liberty and the motorcycle rider identified as Isioma Ugbeje, who carried him to the shrine.”
Edafe said the herbalist further stated that late Liberty has been his long-time customer who frequently visits him to hypnotise clients so they could give him money easily( in his words, ‘to tie clients ‘).
‘’The herbalist said his elder brother approached him that he needed money and advised him to lure any of his clients so they could kidnap him and ask for ransom, and the unlucky person they could lure was Liberty Friday. They kidnapped him and the Okada Rider and demanded a ransom of Ten Million Naira (N10,000,000). When they noticed that the plan was not working, they murdered him and the motorcycle rider and dumped their bodies in a soakaway pit by the shrine.”
Edafe added that the suspects are in custody, and the remains of the victims have been evacuated and deposited at the mortuary for autopsy.