By Izunna Okafor, Awka
A notorious criminal suspect and gunrunner, popularly known as Kiss Me, is currently on the run as Anambra state security operatives intensify a manhunt for him following a breakthrough in ongoing operations across the State.
The development is part of a wider offensive launched by a Joint Security Team comprising personnel of the Nigeria Police Force and the Anambra State Vigilante Services, who are currently carrying out simultaneous operations across the three senatorial districts of the state.
According to a statement released by the Police Public Relations Officer of the Anambra State Police Command, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, the operation, which recorded remarkable success in Anambra South Senatorial District, led to the arrest of six suspected criminals in different locations within and around the Oko community, Orumba North Local Government Area, where Kiss Me is reported to be a major figure behind rising cases of cult-related violence, gunrunning, and other criminal activities.
He revealed that the security operatives, acting on credible intelligence, stormed Ifite Village in Oko on the evening of May 19, 2025, where they apprehended two suspects identified as Anagor Chinedu (25) and Anagor Rapuluchukwu (23), who were said to be brothers.
The Police Spokesman said during the arrest, an English Beretta pistol was recovered from the duo, who confessed during preliminary interrogation that they were members of the notorious Baggers Confraternity. They also disclosed that their group’s armourer is the infamous ‘Kiss Me’, who is now at large.
Following the revelation, a special manhunt was launched immediately to track down and apprehend Kiss Me and other members of the criminal syndicate believed to be operating within and around Oko and its environs.
In a related operation, the joint security team also responded swiftly to a distress call concerning a gang of vandals who were caught in the act of stealing electric cables from the permanent site of the Federal Polytechnic, Oko.
He said, arriving at the scene, the security operatives arrested four suspects: Chukwuka Usulor, Chukwuemeka Michael, Ikenna Oke, and Ebuka Okeke, from whom they also recovered assorted quantities of electric cables suspected to have been vandalized from the school’s installations.
The police said investigations are ongoing to ascertain the full scope of the suspects’ operations and determine whether there is a link between the two separate groups arrested.
SP Ikenga, in his statement, reaffirmed the commitment of the Command and the Joint Security Network in denying criminal elements any operational space within Anambra State, assuring that security agencies will sustain the tempo of the operations until the state is rid of violent crime and insecurity.
He further added that efforts to arrest the fleeing suspect, Kiss Me, are being intensified, while the arrested suspects will be charged to court upon the conclusion of investigations.
