• No hiding place for criminals, Mbah vows
Enugu State Police Command, on Friday, paraded two suspected members of a daredevil robbery gang behind the killing of the Chairman of the Ogbete Main Market Traders Association (OMMATA), Enugu, Chief Stephen Aniagu on September 14, 2024.
The suspects, Chukwudi Aboshi, a 28-year-old native of Anike in Ikwo Local Government Area of Ebonyi State and Ani Innocent Ebuka (a.k.a. Excellent), a driver and native of Isigwe-Ugbawka in Nkanu East Local Government Area, confessed to the crime in their interaction with journalists, when they were paraded at a press briefing by the Command’s Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Daniel Ndukwe.
According to them, Aniagu and one other were shot for “proving stubborn.”
The police spokesman said that six members of the gang are still at large as police intensify manhunt for them.
According to him, the suspects provided detailed accounts of how they attacked Mr Aniagu, snatched his vehicle, and similarly shot another male driver severally at the same location on the night of the murder. They also snatched his Toyota Corolla.
“They confessed to having committed several other crimes, stating that their criminal camp was in a forest at Mmaku in Awgu LGA.
“They also mentioned the names of other members of their criminal gang, Obinna Nnamani (male), of Ndiagu Ogbo-Ezinne, Akpugo in Nkanu West LGA; Miracle (male, other names unknown, but has the nickname ‘C-C’ or ‘White’) of Mmaku community in Awgu LGA; Okoro Chisom (male) of Ihe community in Awgu LGA; Israel (male, other names and nativity unknown), Pius Anoja (male, a.k.a ‘Ezeobo’ and the chief priest of the criminal group), Mosquito (male, real names unknown), and Anunti (male, real names unknown) all from Mmaku community in Awgu LGA, and Inyiagboku (male, real names unknown), who hails from Akegbe-Ugwu in Nkanu West LGA.”
Meanwhile, Governor Peter Mbah, has vowed that there was no hiding place for criminals in the state, stressing that: “those who have decided to test our resolve will meet their waterloo like these ones.”