The Nigeria Police have, in collaboration with their counterparts in Sierra Leone, arrested Instagram Influencer, Nnanyereugo Benjamin Best, popularly known as Killaboi.
According to media reports, Killaboi was arrested in Sierra Leone where he traveled with a new passport.
He was said to have settled in the West African country, and attended parties at nightclubs until luck ran out of him.
Recall that after Killaboi allegedly killed his girlfriend, he locked her body inside his apartment and fled.
It was gathered that detectives from Ajah Police Station had forced open the door to the apartment located at Oral Estate, Ikota, Ajah, after Augusta’s mother reported her inability to reach her daughter.
It was learnt that the mother had received a call from her daughter, an undergraduate at Lead City University, Ibadan, Oyo State, on July 11, that she had a quarrel with her lover and would be going to his place for them to resolve the issue.
The mother was said to have made efforts to reconcile them but was not able to reach either of them on their phones and had to locate one of her friends who took her to Benjamin’s residence in Ajah on Saturday, July 15.
On arrival at the residence, it was learnt that the woman saw her daughter’s Mercedes Benz C30 parked outside Benjamin’s house and they knocked several times on the door with no response.
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They were said to have gone to the estate’s security post to complain but were asked to go to the Police Station so that the police would come and open the door.
Yielding to the suggestion, Augusta’s mother, it was gathered, went to the police station, filed a complaint and the Divisional Police Officer, DPO led detectives to the apartment to force open the door.
“As soon as the door was opened by the police, the body of the girl was discovered in a pool of her blood with her private part chopped off. The body was fast decomposing and was quickly recovered,” said a police source quoted by The Nation newspaper.
Confirming the incident, police spokesman, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, said marks of violence and signs of struggle were obvious on the body, adding that the place was cordoned off for forensic experts to carry out their investigations.
He confirmed that a note was recovered from the scene, adding that efforts were on to apprehend the suspect.
Meanwhile, Killaboi, it was gathered, took to his Instagram page to confess to have stabbed Augusta by mistake during an argument, adding that he fled the scene out of fear.
In series of incoherent posts shared on his Instastory, the suspect denied allegations he used his lover for ritual, insisting she was the love of his life and they had been together for two years.
He said those painting the ritual narrative were manipulating the situation, urging those abusing his late lover to stop because she did nothing wrong. According to him, the problem in their relationship was toxicity, adding that they had an issue on July 11 and had agreed to meet the next day to talk it over but things got worse.
He claimed he had been having suicidal thoughts since then and was ready to die, turn himself in to give her family closure.
He wrote: “I got into an argument with my girlfriend @austa_xxo which fight i mistakenly stabbed her and ran away out of fear and been suicidal since then.
“I want to end my life now cause I have lost the one I cherish so much. I want to do the right thing and turn myself in. I will gladly end it by paying with my life now.
“I have failed myself, I have failed my mom, I have failed my family. Oh lord I can’t believe this. I can’t leave with this guilt, I’m going crazy… I will say nothing but the truth all from the beginning to what brought us here.
“Woman has ended me. | will turn myself in shortly. Woman Woman Woman
“Bye for now till I do so. I deserve death, no running away. | accept whatever fate has for me. I will give this to her family.
“Woman was finally the end of you Benjamin Best. Woman Oh woman.
“I think | got the love I think I deserved. I blame myself. I will give in. I surrender. I will pay for this. I will pay for this.
“My days on earth are numbered. I know I have no much years to live in the evil world anymore so, there is nothing to lie about anymore as there is nothing to lose.
“I have lost it all already and nothing to prove anymore. I will say the truth and only the truth will bring me God’s acceptance in heaven I believe.
“I will live the remaining days I have left being truthful and cooperating with investigation and turning myself in while awaiting death. This is my promise to God now and I will keep to it. I wish I can go back in time.
“I achieved so much at 26 years and I had the world at my palm. I won over 300 million naira on sportybet between last and this year which unbelievable.
“I made move from launchpad launches. I had everything | could wish for. I lived that life. I had the cars, good life and all. I got dual citizenship, what else?
“I was in such a good place. God did everything for me, answered all my prayers. I got everything I ever wished for. God! And it ended like this. Oh my God, how did this happen? I ruined my own life by myself.”
From Augusta’s Instagram page, there were several videos, images of the lovebirds touring the world for luxury vacations and Killaboi splashing expensive gifts on her.
