News
Police Nab Three For Abducting, Killing Middle-Aged Man
Anambra State Police Command has arrested three suspects for allegedly abducting and killing a middle-aged man and subsequently burying him in a shallow grave.
A stamen by the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, SP Haruna Mohammed, indicated that the suspects, Faith, a 23-year-old girl from Mbaitolu Imo State, Ntomchukwu, 33 from Okija and Abuchi, 26, from Ihiala (surnames withheld) conspired among themselves to commit the alleged crime.
The statement read: “On the 5/9/2020 following intensive manhunt and actionable intelligence, police operatives attached to the command’s Special Anti-Robbery Squad [SARS] arrested the syndicate.
“Suspects had on the 30/8/2020 allegedly abducted one Henry Okam ‘m’ aged 34 years of Okija in Ihiala LGA of Anambra State. They also killed the victim with a pomp action gun and subsequently buried him in a shallow grave.
“Meanwhile, the suspects who voluntarily confessed to the crime took the operatives to a thick forest in Ihiala where the decomposing body of the victim was exhumed and taken to the mortuary for autopsy after it was certified dead by a medical doctor.