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By our correspondent
The Ebonyi State Police Command have announced the arrest of no fewer than 177 suspected organ harvesting, ritual killing, murder, kidnap, armed robbery, illegal possession of firearm among other offences in the state.
The Police Command disclosed also that 92 suspects have already been charged to court, while others will be arraigned once investigations were concluded
The Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Joshua Ukandu in a statement explained that out of the 177 suspects, 162 are males and 15 females.
According to the statement, on 11th Oct.
Mrs Blessing Chikezie Onyekachi reported to the command of her missing husband, Mr Chikezie Idenyi, who left home on Sept.
14 to Lagos on a business trip.
The statement notes that the Command operatives from the Anti-kidnapping unit, through a painstaking investigation and credible intelligence, arrested one Innocent Elebe and Eze Elechi who made useful statements that led to the arrest of the duo of Obinna Nwanguru and Oda Peter.
He said that those arrested confessed to killing Chikezie Idenyi, Chibu Odii and Eze Fabian on different dates while trying to extract their blood/organs to use it to cure a cognitively impaired person.
“Operatives of the command have recovered the corpses of Chikezie Idenyi and Chibu Odii while effort is ongoing to recover the remains of the third victim
Ukandu said that on Oct. 17, Miss Nwigbo was kidnapped and held hostage in a forest behind Okwagba Primary School by Ominiyi Friday, Ubochi Ifeanyi and others at large.
He added that the kidnappers raped and held the victim for four days while they collected a ransom of ₦400,000 before they freed the victim.
“On Oct. 22 operatives of the command who had been on the trail of the kidnappers arrested the two suspects while efforts are ongoing to arrest others at large.
The Police Spokesperson said that Operatives of the command also arrested Chukwuebuka Okemiri, who conspired with others at large to kill HRH Ezeogo Ibo Ubani, the traditional ruler of Ihie Autonomous community in Akaeze Ivo LGA of Ebonyi State, on May 3.
TMSNEWS gathered however that efforts are still ongoing to arrest others at large.
“On Oct. 30, operatives of the command attached to the Crack unit acting on credible intelligence nabbed Utobo Onyekachi, AKA “Azaman”, who is a member of a notorious armed robbery syndicate terrorising citizens within Abakaliki.
“The suspect led the police officers to the syndicate’s hideout in Igbeagu Izzi, where his gang members, upon sighting the police officers, took to their heels and abandoned a Barretta pistol, which was recovered and, upon investigation, was found to have been snatched from a police officer
