Chinese man arrested after attempting to assassinate Nigerian business partner

Nigeria: A Chinese man Sun Hun, has been arrested by the Nigerian Police in Lagos on Friday for allegedly hiring mercenaries to assassinate his Nigerian business associate.

According to Police reports, Mr. Hun had hired Chika Eze whom he paid N1.4 million to murder his business partner.
 Chika Eze was nabbed by the police after they got information about the gang and quickly swooped on them on Thursday afternoon while they were taking oath of secrecy.

In a confessional statement, Chika Eze told the police

“He is my boss. He told me to arrange boys to kill his business partner who is owing him. He discussed the amount with them and then gave me N1.4 million. I have already given them N400,000 that was why the police found one million Naira on me,”

Sun Hun however denied the claims, saying;

 “He refused to pay my money. Instead he went to court when I was not around and claimed that I was owing him N10 million. He got judgment against me and the court said I should pay.

“He is an Igbo man and I did not ask them to kill him. I told them to do juju for the man,”

Confirming the arrest, the state Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni , urged residents to adopt peaceful approach to conflict resolution.
Owoseni said:

“The Chinese national had a misunderstanding with his Nigerian business partner and he thought the best way to resolve it was to assassinate the Nigerian. He recruited a fellow and paid him N1.4million to get boys to kill the other man''.

''While his co-accused was trying to recruit the others and getting them to take an oath, the police got information and arrested them. We also recovered one million out of the N1.4million which will be used as exhibit. Further investigation will be carried out on the matter.”