A 27-year old suspect, Chikwudi Emerenin, has revealed they killed a retired police officer, Chris Kpatuma in Agwa clan, Oguta Local Government Area, Imo state because they saw him as a threat to their Biafra struggle.
The suspect was arrested by police operatives in Delta State.
WITHIN NIGERIA recalls that hoodlums kidnapped and killed a retired police officer, Chris Kpatuma (Hipis) in a farm in the village and took his lifeless body to his house in Imo state.
The late retired police officer was a former Officer in Charge, Legal of the Delta State Police Command.
The State Commissioner of Police, Ari Mohammed Ali who disclosed this at Asaba, said Emerenin was arrested by operatives of the command who acted on intelligence gathered that he and his gang were hibernating somewhere in Aboh, Ndokwa East Local Government Area.
He said the suspect who is an escapee from Owerri prison, was arrested on 12 February 2022 at about 9 pm.
Ali said “He (the suspect) also stated that he is related to the late police officer and that the leader of the gang is called “Mega Bush”.
“The suspect also revealed that the late officer was killed because he was a strong stakeholder and a titled man in the community and owing to the fact that he was a retired police officer, they saw him as a threat to their Biafra struggle hence they decided to kill him.
“The suspect, Chikwudi Emerenin is also suspected to be part of the syndicate that beheaded a vigilante member in Owerri and used his head as a ball some time ago.”
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