Two female robbery suspects, 41 others including a female child trafficker were arrested by the Abia State Police Command in the last six weeks.
Abia state Commissioner of Police, Mrs. Janet Agbede, said apart from three female suspects who were arrested for armed robbery and child trafficking respectively, the other 40 suspects are males who were apprehended at different parts of the state for various offences including armed robbery, kidnapping and cultism.
Agbede, giving the breakdown of the arrests, said two of the suspects were hired assassins three, kidnap suspects, seven armed robbery suspects while one is child trafficker and the rest were arrested for alleged cultism. The CP said the arrested female suspects specialized in robbing their victims of their motorcycles at gun point in collaboration with their male friends.
Aegbede also said that Uche from Amaogudu, Ahaba Imenyi, Isuikwuato Local Government Area had allegedly hired two men, Victor Mark Onyekachi,23, and Emmanuel Okorie, 25, to assassinate Mark Okorie Ogbonnaya from the same era. He said that after collecting the initial deposit from Uche, the alleged hired assassins equally collected money from Ogbonnaya, after which they disclosed to him what was on the offings and urged him to leave the area for at least three weeks for Uche to believe that they had assassinated him. It was based on Ogbonnaya’s petition to the police that the two suspects were arrested and the two phones they collected from their victim were recovered. Agbede said the suspects would be charged to court after police investigations.
