Policemen on patrol
The Imo State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Taiwo Lakanu, yesterday paraded four alleged notorious crime Syndicate who specialised in armed robberies, murder and child theft for crime bothering on hacking a nursing mother to death, smashing the husband’s head with an axe and stealing their five months old baby.
The CP told newsmen in Owerri, the state capital, that the suspects sold the infant for N300, 000 to an already waiting buyer in Okporo community in the Orlu local Government Area of the state.
Lakanu said that the alleged kingpin, Uchenna Ozor, with three others, Prince Etim John of Uto Abak Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom state, Chinazaekpere Nwaenyi of Umuabalike Ihiala in Anambra state, and Chukwudi Ngbanwelu also of Umuabalike in Ihiala in Anambra state who allegedly perpetrated the dastardly act had been on the wanted list of the command.
He sad that the suspects have confessed to the crime and would soon be charged to court for prosecution.