Metro
4 suspects including 20-yr-old arrested for murder, kidnapping
The long arm of the law has caught up with four suspects including a 20-year-old identified as Sylvester Chima for their involvement in a murder and kidnapping case.
The suspects according to reports were arrested by men of the Anti-kidnapping Unit of the Imo State Police Command in Rivers State.
According to the State Commissioner of Police, Dasuki Galadanchi, the arrested suspects were involved in the kidnap and murder of one Miss Oluchi Nnodumele.
The state CP said the other suspects identified as Gift Igwe, 27, Solomon Godwin, 28, and Wosa Okachukwu, 23 including the 20-year-old were arrested on August 29 in Rivers State in continuation of the manhunt for the abductors and killers of the victim, 20-year-old Nnodumele, who hailed from Awo Idemili in the Orsu Local Government Area of Imo State.
Galadanchi said, “We have arrested additional four suspects in connection with the kidnap and murder of 20-year-old Miss Oluchi Nnodumele of Awo Idemili in the Orsu Local Government Area of Imo State.
Read also: 5 suspects including 14-yr-old arrested for raping mentally-unstable woman
“The suspects were arrested on August 29 at their criminal hideout on Alawama Estate Road, Rivers State. They have already confessed to the kidnap and murder of Miss Oluchi Nnodumele, 20.
“During interrogation, the suspects mentioned names of their gang members who are now at large and equally confessed that they have four AK-47 rifles and four six rounds of English revolver pistol in possession of the fleeing gang leader.”
He added, “Let me assure Imo people, especially the family of the slain 20-year-old girl, that my command will not rest until we bring all those who have hands in the kidnap and subsequent killing of that innocent girl.
“Crime has no place in our country and to all those who murdered that girl, they can only run, but we will catch them. The investigating team has been mandated to fish out all of the suspects.
RipplesNigeria… without borders, without fears
Click here to join the Ripples Nigeria WhatsApp group for latest updates.
Join the conversation
Support Ripples Nigeria, hold up solutions journalism
Balanced, fearless journalism driven by data comes at huge financial costs.
As a media platform, we hold leadership accountable and will not trade the right to press freedom and free speech for a piece of cake.
If you like what we do, and are ready to uphold solutions journalism, kindly donate to the Ripples Nigeria cause.
Your support would help to ensure that citizens and institutions continue to have free access to credible and reliable information for societal development.
INVESTIGATION: In Kwara, multimillion-naira milk processing plant is abandoned, converted to a chicken outlet
After the government spent millions of naira to establish a milk processing plant in Kwara State that would provided jobs...
SPECIAL REPORT: For Sokoto communities, promise of healthcare is akin to death sentence
In this story, ABDULRASHEED HAMMAD delves into the dire realities of Primary Health Care services in Sokoto State, shedding light...
ICYMI…SPECIAL REPORT: NNPCL hides behind PIA to frustrate disclosure, accountability
Nigeria’s major oil company, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited (NNPCL), in what appears to be a common practice of disregard...
INVESTIGATION: Multi-million naira Ekiti resort center remains uncompleted a decade after
The multimillion-naira project, expected to comprise recreational buildings, now consists of cassava farmland, a bush used for excretion, and a...
SPECIAL REPORT: Torturous experiences of students with disabilities in Oyo tertiary institutions
For students with disabilities in Oyo state-owned tertiary institutions, learning is a torturous and distressing experience, considering the building structures...