The police
in Imo State have reportedly apprehended the mastermind of a bank robbery which
led to the killing of a bank customer in the state.
Recalled
that some gunmen trailed the bank customer to a Zenith bank branch on Wetheral
Road, Owerri, the state capital. They reportedly carted away the money which
the victim wanted to deposit in the bank and shot him dead.
The
assailants reportedly injured three policemen attached to the bank, shooting
indiscriminately as they fled the area.
However, one
of the gunmen was shot dead by a plain-clothes cop in the bank.
After six
weeks of investigation, two suspects– Justice Ogbenna, aka JJ, and Okechukwu
Onwuamaegbu– were on Friday arrested in Aba, Abia State by operatives of the
Imo State Police Command.
The Police
PRO, Andrew Enwerem said policemen attached to the Special Anti-robbery Squad
of the command arrested the suspected robbers at Saint Francis Mortuary in
Osisioma Aba, Abia State.
Enwerem
disclosed that the suspects led the men and officers of the command to their
hideout at Umuejea Nvosi in the Isiala Ngwa South Local Government Area of Abia
State where two AK 47 rifles, seven magazines, and 175 live ammunition were
recovered.
The police
spokesperson said, “The two prime suspects who coordinated the Zenith Bank
robbery in Owerri on February 23, have been arrested.
“We trailed
them to Aba, where they were nabbed. They immediately led our men to their
hideout at Umuejea Nvosi in the Isiala Ngwa South LGA, where exhibits like two
AK-47 rifles, seven magazines, and 127 live ammunition were recovered.”
Enwerem
confirmed that the suspects, who were cooling their heels at the state police
command in Owerri, had made useful statements and were helping the police with
information that could help in the arrest of other fleeing members of the gang.
He disclosed
that the police would charge them to court at the end of investigations.
A top police
source told Punch that the leader of the gang, Ogbenna, was arrested on the day
he planned to bury his late father.
He said, “We
got information that he would bury his father on Friday and we trailed him to
the mortuary. We laid siege to the morgue. Immediately he arrived with his
family members and friends to carry the remains of his father home, we arrested
him.”
The police
source, who described the suspect as a notorious armed robber, said that he had
jumped bail in Anambra State in 2016 in a similar case of armed robbery.
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