The Federal Capital
Territory (FCT) Police Command yesterday paraded 25 suspects for alleged
involvement in murder, car snatching, armed robbery and other crimes.
The command also said
it recovered eight guns, three cars, four motorcycles, seven parks of
ammunition, three knives, one generator and 12 street lights.
Two of the suspects –
Paul Chukwujekwu Ezengo and Emmanuel Adogah – were arrested for allegedly
killing Ezengo’s married lover, 44-year-old Charity Chidebere Aiyedogbon, to
take her Acura Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV).
The suspects said they
committed the crime after giving her excess alcohol, killed her, mutilated her
body and packed it into two sacks that were dumped in a river.
To cover their track,
the suspects said they changed the number plate of the vehicle of the deceased
from Abuja to (Ebonyi State) SKA625AA.
Charity mysteriously
disappeared in 2016.
The police, in efforts
to unravel the mystery behind her disappearance, trailed and arrested the duo.
Giving details
yesterday of how the suspects were nabbed, the FCT Police Commissioner Sadiq
Bello said: “The dogged determination of the command to unravel the sudden
disappearance of 44-year-old Charity Chidebere Aiyedogbon since May, 2016, has
yielded a positive result.
“On June 1, police
operatives attached to the command’s Anti-Kidnapping Squad, arrested the
principal suspect, Paul Chukwujekwu Ezengo, 27, in Benin, the Edo State
capital.
“Following his arrest,
the principal suspect, who has been at large since the lady’s disappearance,
confessed during interrogation that the mother of four was his girlfriend and
that he conspired with Emmanuel Adogah, 28, and murdered her on May 9, 2016, at
2330 hours (11.30 p.m) at Kagini.
“According to Ezengo,
he gave her excess alcohol to consume before he moved her from Yaoundé Street
in Wuse Zone 6 to Kagini area, where she was butchered and her mutilated
body packed in two sacks that were dumped on the river bank at Ushafa in
Bwari Area Council.
“He further confessed
that he killed her because he wanted to take possession of her Acura ZDS SUV
and other properties.”
The police said
they recovered the deceased’s car and some of her properties from the suspect.
The police chief,
who described Adogah as an habitual criminal, said he also confessed to have
participated in some heinous crimes.
Narrating his
involvement with Charity and how he killed her, Ezengo said: “We met on Facebookand
she told me she was divorced. I was in a relationship with her for about a year
and a half. We were having issues in our relationship because I was not
benefiting from the relationship.
“She wasn’t very rich
when I met her but I knew she was comfortable and I needed my own share of her
wealth.
“Later, evil thoughts
came into me that I should kill her and take her car. I proceeded with the
thought by involving my friend, Adogah.
“We went to hang out
one night in 2016 and while we were there, she had too much alcohol and dozed
off. I carried her from the house to where we killed her in Kagini.”
On why he mutilated
her, Ezengo said: “That night, after killing her, I was totally drunk. I wanted
to carry her after killing her but she did not fit into the sack. That was why
I decided to butcher her and dump her body in the river.
“It was greed and the
devil that led me to do what I did. I was hoping to get her car after killing
her. I feel really bad for what I did but I feel better because her spirit has
been disturbing me. I believe that was why I was arrested.”
Narrating his role,
Adogah said: “My friend called me to assist him. My only role was just to carry
the deceased’s body from Ezengo’s house to where she was eventually killed.”
Other suspects paraded
include Shamsu Tukur, Abdulrahman Haruna, Zakari Bawa, Friday Okpara, Ojo
Adebisi, Kasimu Isa, Samuel Eze, Kasimu Yakubu, Samaila Muhammed, Musa Yusuf,
Abdullahi Ali and Ifeanyi Ugwu.
Others are: Godwin
Obasi, Salisu Muhammed, Dimka Yohanna, Ebuka Ejeanyido, Chidebe Okocha,
Chukwuma Amichie, Augustin Agbo and Chinedu Obi.
On the preparation
of the police for this weekend’s Eid-el-Fitr celebration,
Bello warned criminals to avoid causing a breach of peace.
The police chief
said the command, in conjunction with other security agencies, had takenmeasures to
deal with individuals or groups that disturb the celebration to
guarantee peace and security among the residents.
Also, to curb criminality
in the FCT, Bello said the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Ibrahim Idris, had
reinforced the operational capability of the command with 40 patrol
vehicles for a security outfit, code-named Rapid Response Squad (RRS).
He said the vehicles
had been deployed in parts of the FCT, adding that their presence had
contributed to the reduction of crime and criminality in the territory.
The Nation
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