…My Wife Is Messing Around, Suspect Cries Out
The Delta State Police Command has paraded 10 bandits for various criminal offences across the state while the Command has sternly warned hoodlums to have a change of heart as operatives of the Command have been directed to smoke out criminals from their hideouts in any part of the state.
The offences of the paraded hooligans ranges from armed robbery, murder, car snatching, kidnapping, impersonating personnel of the Nigerian Police Force and an alleged rapist.
Speaking with newsmen in his office, the Commissioner of Police (CP) Zanna Mohammed Ibrahim, disclosed that, “one Mrs. Edith Sunday was robbed by unknown armed men of the sum of N40, 000 and a ladies cycle in her residence at Agbor town. The bandits slaughtered the said Mrs. Sunday and her daughter Favour Sunday, while her son Praise Sunday was severally stabbed on his neck and back but survived the attack”.
CP Ibrahim noted that SARS operatives, after diligent investigation arrested one Solomon Ogibor and Ola Babatunde in connection with the heinous crime while a gang member is currently at large.
In another development, the Police boss disclosed that SARS operatives at Abraka received information that one Jerry Osakwe was attempting to rob one Eze Annable of her valuables but was accosted by the police while SARS who were on patrol on stop and search at Oria/Abraka road arrested one Ewoma Zino with a cut to size locally made barrel gun even as a team of police attached to Abraka Division while on routine stop and search within Abraka metropolis arrested one Paul Ikhanede and recovered a cut to size locally made single barrel gun.
The Commissioner of Police said, “Safer highways patrol located at Ughelli/Patani road while on pin down operations suspected one Mitsubishi L300 bus with Reg. number Anambra ATN 953XA which was flagged down for a search. During interrogation, the driver, one Benie Ebikpolada of Abraka market, Asaba, confessed that the said vehicle was snatched by his boys at gun point in Anambra State and was arrested while the vehicle has been recovered”.
In same vein, CP Ibrahim revealed that dragon patrol team on routine patrol at Ossissa, along Ogwashi-Uku/Kwale road recovered an abandoned M/Benz car with Reg. No. USL 900 AH, “when the vehicle was searched, a lawyers wig/rob, three TECHNO handsets, legal files and a dairy O.F. Obasohan, Esq were found, thereby giving rise that the occupant (s) might have been kidnapped”.
Meanwhile, the father to the twins, Mr. Isiaka Kareem said he has been having issues of infidelity with his wife in the past five years, noting that he was been framed up by his daughters and wife, “Because I was a little bit strict with them, I do flog them when they go out. Sometimes, they do buy alcohol. And they are joining bad gangs. And I have been having problem with my wife. When I go to work, they come back home late, I am the only one here. Sometimes I see empty canes or the remnants of the drinks. I reported the issue to my father severally and to my pastor to talk to them in the church. How on earth will it be possible to sleep with my daughters in a house where my wife, father and two sons lives in. this is just an allegation due to my strictness on them. They are only framing me up because I told them that they will be going to the village after their exams”.
“I have been having issues of infidelity with my wife since things dropped for me and she has been going out with men for more five years now and that is the reason I left the compound you can go and find this out and the children are following her footsteps. I have never had sex with my children, they are only framing me up because I have decided to be strict with them. They were raped in 2010, by a native doctor’s son —Christian Chukwu, I took the case up and the boy was remanded that year”.
Also, Ogibor Solomon, who confessed to his crime said, “The woman said they should kill and chase me out of the area and secondly she talked about my mum that she is a ritualist because my mum died on time and before she died she has two building”.
When asked about his motive of storming the woman’s apartment, Ogibor noted, “I didn’t go there to kill her but when we got there, she begged us and I left her and I collected N40, 000 from her, she started shouting my name. So, I saw a kitchen knife and I used it to stab her and I went out”.
“I am not the one that stabbed her daughter, it was my friend but he escaped from the police. We were three that participated in the act, am not the one that stabbed her son, it is just the mother only. I stabbed the mother, the other of my friend stabbed the daughter, this other of my friend stabbed the son. Because she started mentioning my name that they should send me out of the community. What really happened is that, though I do not stay in the community, I base in Lagos. There was a friend of mine whose mum was sick and the mum wants to go back to the village so he begged me to stay in my place and I left him. I started hearing that he and one of his friends went to rob, they caught them and brought them to that community”.
“People were in my compound that day because of that the woman said I am the one bringing in bad people into that area that they should look for me and chase me out. I am a tailor in Lagos, am 20yrs from Ekpon, I feel very guilty and sad”.
Babatunde Ola who also participated in the murder said, “I am 18yrs old, I am the one who stabbed the boy. I just finished my secondary education last two years. It was Solomon who introduced me into crime when he returned from Lagos”.
A former police officer, Ofili Eze, who was impersonating as an Assistant Superintendent of police also narrated why he was apprehended said, “I am an ex-police officer, what happened is this. I was in a store when a man came and he told me of police job, if I can assist him and I asked him his educational qualification as it has been long we saw and he said NCE. He said he has the document excerpt the certificate of medical fitness which he said he will do but he did not do it that day so the next day he came and we discussed together and he gave me N4, 000 only for the medical fitness for me to do the medical fitness for him. When I brought back the medical fitness report, we were on that discussion when the police came and arrested me. I was a Corporal, the rank of a Sergeant when I was in the police”.
