According to the police in Enugu State, a local doctor was detained in Umuaram, Ikem, a community in the council area’s Isi-Uzo Local Government Area, for reportedly fatally shooting a customer in Eha-Amufu.
The suspect, 23-year-old Emmanuel Odoh, is accused of killing the victim, Onunze Benedict, in a shrine while trying a charm the victim’s local doctor had made for him that would shield him from gunshot wounds.
The suspect was detained on November 16 by police officers from the Isi-Uzo Police Divisional Headquarters, according to the state’s police spokesperson, Daniel Ndukwe, who made this announcement in a statement on Tuesday.
Police deputy superintendent Mr. Ndukwe claimed to have found the single-barreled gun the native doctor had been using.
The State Criminal Inquiry Department (SCID) of the state’s Homicide Section has started a new investigation into the incident, according to the police.
kidnapping and attempting to kill
A truck driver and his assistant were allegedly the victims of a plot, an armed robbery, an abduction, and an attempted murder in Umuhu, a community in Enugu’s Isi-Uzo Council Area. According to a police spokeswoman, five suspects were detained in a separate operation.
The village and Ebonyi State share a border.
According to Mr. Ndukwe, the unidentified driver and his assistant were traveling in a Sino truck that was hauling 900 bags of cement from Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, when they were ambushed and kidnapped on November 9 at around 3 a.m. by the suspects and other fugitives.
He claimed that throughout the assault, the suspects were armed with machetes and other weapons.
He identified the suspects as being male Imo State citizens Everest Ayokalam, 48, Anayo Akakem, 33, Kelechi Iwuanyanwu, 32, Uchenna Iwuoha, 47, and Chimankpa Nnorom, 32.
In response to solid intelligence, police officers from the Isi-Uzo Police Division of the Command and their counterparts in the Imo State Command worked together to arrest them at Ikeduru in Imo State on November 12.
He claimed that the suspects reportedly battered the victims and tied them to a tree in a forest before fleeing with the cement truck and its contents.
The truck and 789 bags of cement were found at Everest Ayokalam’s warehouse, the recipient of the exhibits, along with the suspects’ confessions to the crime, according to Mr. Ndukwe.
illegally possessing firearms
According to Mr. Ndukwe, the police also detained six additional male suspects for illegally possessing firearms in a structure on the Ninth Mile of the Nsukka-Makurdi Highway in the Udi Council Area.
Police officers working out of the Nineth Mile Police Divisional Headquarters apprehended the suspects on November 24 at around 3.20 p.m.
The suspects were named by a police spokesperson as Obinna Joseph, 19, Stephen Anigbo, 23, Promise Iyere, 28, and Charles Onoh, 24.
Others included males Charles Obilor, 25, and Chibuike Ede, 24.
According to Mr. Ndukwe, an inquiry into the incident at the SCID’s Anti-Robbery Section has shown that three of the suspects, who were connected to a previously reported case resembling this one, were preparing to commit felonious offences before they were apprehended.
Robbery
A neighborhood watch group assisted a team of police officers from the Awkunanaw Police Divisional Headquarters, Operation Restore Peace, and Safer Highway Patrol in the arrest of five further individuals for alleged robbery, according to the police spokeswoman.
He identified the accused as Kasie Ani, 25, Felix Maduakonam, 24, and Tochukwu Igwe, 25.
Chidera Okoye, 21, and Jennifer Nwafor, the lone female suspect, were the other suspects.
According to the police, “their arrest comes in response to the team’s prompt response to a distress call reporting that the accused were obstructing traffic at the Garriki Axis of the Enugu/Port-Harcourt Expressway and robbing motorists.”
Following the rescue of their victims, Mr. Ndukwe claimed that four male suspects were first detained, and the female suspect was later detained for harboring one of the male suspects.
Police say they found goods from the suspects’ victims, including three mock firearms that were allegedly used in criminal activities, 21 pieces of wrappers, clothing, phones, ATM cards, and other valuables.
Arraignment
Although several individuals had already been arraigned, the police spokeswoman said that others would be charged as soon as investigations were finished.
