POLICE ARREST NOTORIOUS KIDNAPPERS AND KILLERS OF FUTO STUDENT LEO MICAH ISIAH

The Imo State Police Command has arrested eight notorious kidnappers five of them were linked to the murder of one Leo Micah Isiah a student of FUTO who lived at Akwakwuma in Owerri North LGA of Imo State.

Isiah’s Lexus car model RX350 with Registration Number AKL 785 AG was also taken away.

One of the suspects, Ifeanyi Nwaiwu of the Nigerian Army School of Military Engineering, Makurdi, Benue State said he ordered Isiah’s killing after he received N200,000 as his share of the money collected from the victim.

Godson Chimezie, 28 who is a military deserter and also a member of the gang said they ran into Isaiah while he was inflating his car tyre.

“We saw him while he was pumping his tyre in Owerri and we sensed that a small boy like him driving that kind of vehicle must be a Yahoo boy.

We quickly accosted him and I took his phone, went through it and discovered that he was an Internet fraudster. We immediately kidnapped him on the pretext of an arrest. We took him to our hideout and the young man agreed to pay N800,000. .

We collected the money, but Ifeanyi insisted that we must kill him. According to him, the man would dent his image if he walked away alive.

The five suspects arrested for the murder of Isiah are Godson Chimezie 28 years old from Nwangele LGA of Imo State, Emmanuel Amadi 28 years old from Ngor-Okpala LGA of Imo State, Innoson Udeze 45 years old and Eze Simon 23 years old both from Nsude Udi LGA of Enugu State; and L/cpl Ifeanyi Nwaiwu ‘m’ of Ogwa in Mbaitoli LGA of Imo State, a dismissed member of Nigerian Army School of Military Engineer (NASMEN) Makurdi.

They were arrested on May 10, 2020 at about 3.40pm at Udi in Enugu State by SARS operatives.

Parading the suspects, the state Commissioner of Police, Isaac Akinmoyede said they were arrested through painstaking discreet investigation.

“Two of the suspects who wore Army camouflage at the time of arrest, confessed they were dismissed soldiers.

He noted that in the recent times in Owerri and its environs, criminals have been using military camouflage while robbing or kidnapping unsuspecting members of the public.

In another development, the commissioner disclosed that at about 09:00hrs at Arondizogu, SARS operatives received a distress call on a case of kidnapping, swung into action and arrested one James Agonsi 33 years old of Obinakpa Ndiuche Arondizogu in Ideato North L.G.A of Imo State.

He said the suspect made confessional statement as to his involvement in the kidnapping of one Rita Ojika of same address in 2018, and that he has been on the run since then, while his gang members are in prison custody.

He said at Umuakam Osina in Ideato South L.G.A, two more suspects of the gang were arrested in connection with the robbery of one Martha Utigba of the same address, and a search was conducted in their homes and premises, where the victim’s hand bag, a Nokia Phone and MTN Recharge cards were recovered.

He added that the suspects took the operatives to Umuoboim in Ideato South L.G.A where locally made, cut to size gun with its 8 rounds of live cartridges wrapped with nylon bag hidden in the bush were recovered.

Sequel to the arrest of James Agonsi, two other gang members were arrested. They are Thankgod Albert 30yrs old of Umunagbo, Abia State and Chinonso Ugah of Aguata L.G.A, Anambra State, he said.

According to him the suspects who had confessed to the crime led operatives to where the decomposing corpse of their victim was recovered.

One of the kidnappers Godson disclosed that they poured a corrosive chemical on the body of the victim and a large stone which was used to kill the victim was seen beside the victim’s decaying body.

The commissioner said that the corpse has been deposited at Federal Medical Centre Owerri (FMC) morgue.