The Enugu Condition Police Command has introduced the arraignment and remand of 30-year-old Tsehemba Joshua for the alleged armed theft and homicide of 19-year-old scrap scavenger, Yusuf Ibrahim.
This used to be disclosed in a remark by way of the Police Community Family members Officer, DSP Daniel Ndukwe, which used to be additionally shared at the command’s X account and titled, “Enugu Police Arrest, Arraign and Remand Male Suspect for Conspiracy, Armed Robbery, and Murder of Scrap Scavenger.”
“Joshua is accused of conspiring with two accomplices, currently at large, to rob and strangle the victim. He has been remanded to the Enugu Correctional Custodial Centre following his court appearance,” the remark learn.
Operatives from the Udenu Police Section arrested Joshua upcoming a crowd alert a few shallow grave came upon at Ojo River, Ogbodu-Aba, Obollo Population.
“The suspect was arrested by operatives from the Udenu Police Division of the Command, following a community alert regarding a shallow grave discovered in a bush at Ojo River in Ogbodu-Aba, Obollo Community, Udenu LGA,” it famous.
Joshua confessed to luring the sufferer with a pretend scrap motor automobile sale, robbing him of N100,000, and after strangling and burying him on October 2, 2024.
“The suspect confessed to luring the sufferer underneath the pretence of marketing a scrap motor automobile propeller sooner than robbing him of N100,000, strangling, and burying his frame in a shallow grave on October 2, 2024.
“After a thorough investigation of the case by the Campus Monitoring/Anti-Cultism Section of the State CID Enugu, the suspect was arraigned and subsequently remanded, pending further court proceedings,” the remark concluded.
In August, the circumstance command additionally detained a 30-year-old guy for the alleged homicide of his neighbour’s four-year-old daughter hour she used to be napping.
The Command, in September, said that it used to be investigating the homicide of the Chairman of Ogbete Major Marketplace Buyers Affiliation, Stephen Aniago.