Five people have been taken into custody by the Anambra State Police Command in connection with offences like kidnapping, armed robbery, and illegal gun possession.
The suspects were captured in different operations, according to a press release issued by the command’s spokesperson, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, on Sunday.
He stated that during the operations, a suspected stolen car and a locally manufactured Beretta weapon were found.
Ikenga ascribed the arrests to the continuous security operational review and safety measures put in place by CP Ikioye Orutugu, the Commissioner of Police, which he said are starting to reveal the state’s “undesirable elements.”
The statement read in part: “In separate operations, police have arrested a total of five suspects in a case of kidnapping, armed robbery, unlawful possession of firearm and recovered a locally made Beretta pistol and a suspected stolen vehicle.”
He disclosed that in the early hours of February 22, 2025, police operatives attached to a Special Anti-Cultism Squad raided a criminal hideout at Igbariam and arrested three suspects: “Miracle Chukwunoso, Chinweze Charles, and Bonaventure Chigozie — all males aged between 20 and 26. The team also recovered a locally fabricated Beretta pistol from them.”
Victims who had been beaten and stripped of their possessions were able to identify the offenders. On February 21, 2025, N254,000 was taken out of one of the victim’s accounts along Otoko, Igbariam.
Another development is that on February 16, 2025, at 2:00 pm, police officers from the 3-3 Police Divisional Headquarters acted quickly to rescue a victim who had been kidnapped at the Ejison Fuel Station on the Enugu-Onitsha Motorway.
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In a follow-up operation, the police arrested two suspects (names withheld to aid further investigation) and recovered an “Ash-coloured Toyota Corolla” allegedly belonging to the victim at a mechanic workshop in the 3-3 Area.
According to the victim, the “armed men forcefully withdrew over N1 million from his account during his captivity and took his two phones, valued at N820,000.”
