A deadly gang of notorious kidnappers and armed robbers have been arrested in Rivers state with human skulls.
The suspects while being paraded by the police in Rivers state
Policemen in Rivers State have caught two notorious kidnappers,
Alex Obubu and Alaso Igbo with human skulls. It also paraded about 49
suspected armed robbers involved in different crimes that had caused
much tension in the state.
Punch reveals that the two human skulls and some other parts of
human beings were presented to press men during the parading of the
suspects.
One of the skulls was identified by a suspect, Chika Amadi, to be the remains of the head of one Mr. Ebubedike Wabali.
According to Amadi, the late Wabali was the leader of Degbam cult
group in Isiokpo community in Ikwerre Local Government Area of the
state. He further added that Wabali was killed and beheaded during a
clash of supremacy between Degbam and Icelanders cult groups in the
area.
“We beheaded him in February during a cult war. We did not
intend to kill him, but as he wanted to escape, I touched the trigger. I
never knew that the gun was not on safety,” the suspect confessed.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police in the state, Francis
Odesanya, reiterated police commitment to restoring peace in the state.
Odesanya, who spoke while parading the suspects in Port Harcourt,
narrated that the gangs were smashed during different operations at
various criminal hideouts in the state by the Tactical Unit of the
command and the Inspector General’s Monitoring Unit present.
He noted that the killers of Wabali had kept the skulls in their shrine and worshipped it before the team stormed the place.
“On my assumption of duty, I clearly expressed my disposition
and resolve to fight crime and criminality to a standstill in the state.
I have charged my men to brace up to the challenges and warned
criminals to repent, relocate or face the weight of the law."
Odesanya noted that the command’s Tactical and the IGP’s Monitoring
Units had in their operations arrested four suspects, Chibuike Amuzuo,
Amadi Nathaniel Akpokpe, Ezims Aleru and Junior Aleru, who allegedly
killed the Port Harcourt-based human rights lawyer, Mr. Ken Atsuwete.
The CP also said three of the suspects, Godday Bright, Loveday
Simon and Gift Israel, were members of a gang that killed a police
sergeant, Mr. Tunde Ojekemi, adding that the leader of the gang, Shina
Rambo, was killed during the operation that claimed the life of the
sergeant.
He urged the people of the state to go about their lawful
businesses without fear, adding that the police were poised to restore
sanity in the state.