Joseph Emeka Okoro, the man, who allegedly killed three persons in Ebonyi State last week, claimed that an evil spirit possessed and forced him to commit the crime.
Okoro, who hails from Agbabo Isu in Onicha Local Government, was arrested by policemen from Onicha Divisional Police Station.
In an interview with The Nation Reporter at the police headquarters, Abakaliki, the suspect alleged that the manipulations of the evil spirit was further worsened by the effect of drugs allegedly injected into his body by assassins hired by his former master in Lagos.
Narrating his ordeal in the hands of his master, who he claimed to have served for many years, Emeka alleged that rather than settle him after his service, the master hired assassins to kill him.
He regretted killing the three victims with a machete, adding that they were his in laws.
“I know those people that I ‘killed’ but I did not know why I killed them or when I did it. They are good people whom I have never had any quarrel with. I think I was possessed by an evil spirit.
“Whenever this spirit comes into me, it will just be as if I am mad and this was worsened by the effect of the drugs I was injected with by people hired by my former master. I have never seen such powerful drugs in my life. I had up to 48 injections.
“I ran to a white garment church and my master came there and told them that I was mad but while I was there I asked to make a phone call which they obliged me and after the phone call, the church members started wondering how a mad man is able to know the numbers to call and discuss coherently.
“They gave some people money to kill me. Those people hit me with iron and blinded my eye and I fainted. They then dumped me in a gutter thinking I was dead.
“I woke up and heard a voice telling me to go back to the village. That was how I went back to the village.
“I sold my phone for N5,000 to raise money to come back home. I have never killed before.
Police spokesman Chris Anyanwu named the victims as Peter Awoke from Umuniko Isu; Sunday Nwaigwe from Umuniko Isu and Ega of Agbabo.
He said the suspect would be charged to court after investigations are concluded
Peter Awoke, God in his infinit mercy wil c u thru
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