POLICE APPREHEND 4 SUSPECTS FOR ALLEGEDLY SETTING 74-YEAR-OLD WOMAN ABLAZE IN ANAMBRA
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Four suspects from the Ifitedunu region of the state have been taken into custody by the Anambra State Police Command on suspicion of killing a 74-year-old woman by burning her to death.
Among the four suspects was Chinyere Ekwenugo, a 21-year-old woman who allegedly plotted with others to murder the wheelchair-bound woman.
In a statement to reporters in Awka, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, the state’s Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), revealed that the event happened at approximately nine in the morning on Sunday.
“During interrogation by the police operatives, the suspect, Chinenye Ekwenugo, confessed that her boyfriend, Ifeanyi Igwe, who is currently at large, and three others set the victim ablaze.
“They brought a casket to bury her before the intervention of the security operatives,” he said.
According to Ikenga, the three other suspects are Ikenna Anene, 54; Fidel Anayo, 60; and Uzochukwu Okeke, 47, all of whom are from the Abagana region.
According to him, the police officers also found a casket, a wheelchair, and the deceased’s burnt bones.
According to the police image maker, the police have also started the process of apprehending Igwe, the primary suspect who is presently evading capture.
According to him, the deceased’s body has been placed in the mortuary for an autopsy and additional investigation into the cause of death.
In response to the event, Nnaghe Itam, the state’s commissioner of police, asked for composure and directed that the matter be sent right away to the command’s State Criminal Investigation Department’s homicide department for a thorough investigation.
According to the PPRO, at 1:30 pm on Saturday, agents from the command’s anti-cult unit at Enugwu Ukwu detained a 25-year-old man named Maduka Okoye from the Abagana region after receiving information.
According to him, during the operation, the officers also found three spent pump-action gun cartridges at a shooting site in the Abagana hamlet in Ezichike.
According to Ikenga, the suspect admitted to belonging to the Baggars Confraternity.
In response to the event, Nnaghe Itam, the state’s commissioner of police, asked for composure and directed that the matter be sent right away to the command’s State Criminal Investigation Department’s homicide department for a thorough investigation.
According to the PPRO, at 1:30 pm on Saturday, agents from the command’s anti-cult unit at Enugwu Ukwu detained a 25-year-old man named Maduka Okoye from the Abagana region after receiving information.
According to him, during the operation, the officers also found three spent pump-action gun cartridges at a shooting site in the Abagana hamlet in Ezichike.
According to Ikenga, the suspect admitted to belonging to the Baggars Confraternity.
He quoted the suspect as saying, “I was in a beer parlour drinking with my friend when the Axe Men Confraternity attacked us.”.
The PPRO said that the attack could have led to a cult war before the police moved in to stop it.
“The police has since restored calm in the area,” he said.
He said that the suspect was currently assisting the police in an ongoing operation for possible arrest of the fleeing gang members and already identified members of the rival cult group, especially those actively involved in the shooting.
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