A suspected cultist and two others have butchered their friend and dumped his body in a sack in Calabar.

The incident happened on Sunday, February, 2,2025 in Calabar, the capital of Cross River State.

According to a source, the deceased, known as Benji, made about N5 million from his Yahoo scam. His friend Aziz, whom he allegedly owed N300,000, hearing this, invited two others, Aziz and the FBI, to a meeting place to beat him up and transfer all the money in his account.

When he died, the suspects butchered him into pieces and took his body in a sack to his house at Spring Road in Ekoirinim community in Calabar Municipal local government area, where he was staying with his grandmother.

Suspicious of them, Benji’s grandmother raised alarm but it was too late as the suspects had already fled the scene.

The source stated, “The deceased is a yahoo, boy, he scammed someone of about N5m, one of his girlfriends happened to know about the money so she licked the information to some of his friends who happened to be cult guys, since he was owing them N3000,000 and they heard he had gotten such amount, they lured him to their meeting place, beat him up with cutlass.

“He transferred N500,000 to them, they were not satisfied, collected his phone and saw the alert that he was still having money, they started beating him again, forcefully collected his pin and transferred the whole money into their account.

“He later died from the beating; they butchered him, put him in a sack and then took him to his house at Spring Road and dumped his body. The grandmother, who saw them dropping the bag, raised an alarm, but it was too late because they had already fled.”

When contacted, the Cross River State Police Command Public Relations Officer, SP Irene Ugbo, said the case has not been reported to the police.

“We had a briefing this morning, such a report was not raised, such news has not been reported to us,” she said. (The Guardian)