A 20-year-old apprentice, Josiah Godwin has allegedly hacked down his master Savior Joseph and dumped his corpse in a well at Imafon Community, in Akure South Local Government Area of Ondo state.
It was gathered that trouble started when the deceased, who specializes in fixing POP asbestos smashed the phone of the apprentice on the floor over unsettled dispute.
While narrating the incident, to Journalists in Akure on Thursday, the elder brother of the deceased, Odey Julius Ogbaji said body of the 27-year-old deceased was found four days ago in a well at the site where he and the apprentice went to work at Imafon Community.
His words: “Last week Tuesday, the deceased called me in the morning and we spoke but on Wednesday, I tried his number, i couldn’t get through, I thought he had a flat battery, until Saturday that I was called by another younger brother of mine who said all efforts to reach the deceased had been unsuccessful.
“Afterwards, the deceased apprentice was contacted. When they got the boy, they asked him about the whereabouts of his master and he said his boss woke him up at night, collected his phone smatched it on the floor and began to beat him and later asked him to sleep.
“He said, the following day, he decided to leave the site. So, we asked him, how will he wake up in the morning without seeing your boss and you left the site? He said, he thought his master went to the toilet when he left.
“When we checked the phone said to have been smashed on the floor by the deceased, there was no scratch on it” Ogbaji said
Also, an in-law to the deceased, Mr Ogar Julius said the suspect had been arrested and transferred to the Police Criminal Investigative Department (CID), at the Police headquarters, Akure.
All efforts to reach the Police Public Relations Officer in Ondo State, Funmilayo Odunlami-Omisayan were unsuccessful as of the time of filing this report.