20-yr-old school dropout stabs school prefect to death

CALABAR — A 20-year-old man Godwin Odu, has been
arrested by the police in Calabar for allegedly stabbing
Boniface Odinaka, a student of Army Day Secondary School, 3
Amphibious Brigade, Eburutu Barracks, Calabar to death.
Odinaka, who was the Labour Prefect of the school, was
attacked for confiscating the sandals of another student,
Francis Etim.
He was said to have engaged the services of Odu who was his
friend and an alleged cultist.
Odu who is from Akwa Ibom State, is currently detained at the
state Criminal Investigation Department, CID, Diamond Hill,
Calabar.
On why he killed Odinaka, he said his friend, Francis Etim,
asked him to assist him recover a pair of sandals which
Odinaka seized over alleged improper dressing.
Asked if he knew the name of the Labour Prefect, Odu said
they laid ambush with Etim for Odinaka at the school gate
waiting for closing hour when students were returning home.
In a statement at the Homicide Unit of the state CID, Odu
confirmed that he attacked Odinaka from the rear and as the
SSS II boy struggled to free himself, it resulted to a fight
which caused his death.
Fielding questions from the Officer-in-Charge of Homicide, Mr.
Joseph Inuyashe, DSP, Odu said: “The boy Odinaka is the
cause of every thing that has brought me here. My friend,
Francis Etim, came from school and told me that one senior
student seized his sandals.”
Minutes after Odinaka was killed, Etim fled the area, but he
was later arrested.
Odu who was identified as a dropout, said he attended
Government Technical School, Ikot Ansa, Calabar and
abandoned his studies as “some bad boys were after me.”
He pleaded that he was still a minor, claiming he was 14
years old, but when asked the year he was born, his years in
primary and secondary school, he later said he was 20 years
old.
Mr. Inuyashe, DSP, said the state Government frowned at
cultism and other nefarious acts, saying Udo will be promptly
charged to court, since he has admitted killing the boy.