Police arrest fake corporal, murder suspects in Abia
By Salimot Raji
Abia State Police Command has arrested a middle-aged man, Okoi Eyon who has being impersonating as a police corporal. Also, one Emeka Ikpo has been arrested for alleged murder.
While parading the suspects at the police headquarters in Umuahia, Commissioner of Police, Adamu Ibrahim, said the impersonator, Okoi Eyon, was arrested on June 7, 2014 along Aba/Ikot Ekpene Road “impersonating as police corporal in order to avoid police search”.
He said investigations about the suspect later revealed that the 27-year-old alleged impersonator was dismissed from police college Nonwa in 2007 while undergoing recruitment training.
According to him, the impersonator confessed to have procured a fake police identity card from a cybercafe sometime in April 2014 , which he had been using to avert payment of environmental fees, sanitation levies and shop licence.
The CP said the suspect would soon be arraigned in court for criminal impersonation of police officers.
On Emeka Ikpo, 21, from Ndi Okpo Ihechiowa in Arochukwu Local Government Area of the state, who was arrested for allegedly killing a commercial motorcycle operator, Ndubuisi Eni, and dispossessing him of his bike, police said the suspect had confessed that he hired the services of the deceased to convey him from Ohafia to his (suspect’s) village, but midway into the journey, he forced the okada rider to divert to a path leading to a farm plantation where he brandished an axe he concealed under his shirt and used it to butcher the deceased to death.
Police said, it was the family of the deceased who raised alarm when their bread winner did not return home after the day’s labour.
A search party was to have been organised by the villagers, who were shocked to find the decomposing body of the late 28-year-old Eni in a bush at Igboro Ukwu Akanu Ohafia days after.
The bewildered villagers later alerted the police about the crime following which detectives were dispatched to trail the perpetrators of the cruel act.
Acting on a tip off, “one Emeka Ikpo, who does not have any reasonable means of livelihood, was seen with a new unregistered motorcycle, which was reasonably suspected to have been stolen.”
The suspect and two other accomplices, Okoronkwo Onyeka, and Sunday Udoka, all of same community, were also arrested in connection with the crime.
Police said, the suspects would be taken to court soon.