Detectives of the Abia State Police Command have nabbed and paraded suspected armed robbers identified as Promise Sunday Obilor a.k.a Esere (26), Kingsley Emezue aka Pakins, and Enyinna Asiegbu (25), for allegedly murdering a couple in-front of their three (3) children.

The Police Commissioner of Abia State, Ene Okon, told newsmen that there was a connection between Sampson Iheukwumere Nwokocha a.k.a Grave, a notorious robber killed in December by the police and the suspects in custody.

He explained that the suspects relocated from Umuahia after their leader, Nwokocha, was killed. But they returned in January 2020 when they felt that they were off the radar of the police.

The gang seemed to have gone on holidays to enjoy their loots and resurfaced around January 10, 2020, in what seems like recouping of expenses made during the Yuletides. The six-man gang on January 25, 2020, operating in a tricycle, snatched a Toyota Sienna van with registration number RBC477RL, along Health Center Road in World Bank Housing Estate, Umuahia.

The gang, while operating in a Sienna van, shot and killed a couple, Mr and Mrs Darlington Chinyere Uzoma, along Secretariat Road, Ogwurube Layout, Umuahia. This was after robbing them of proceeds of the day’s sales.

They robbed and shot Basil Okechukwu of Obowo, Imo State, on January 16, around Post Office Umuahia Road. Okechukwu was killed while on transit with the money he withdrew from bank.

Officers from the Central Police Station, Umuahia and operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) on ‘Operation Puff Adder’ went after the hoodlums and intercepted a tricycle conveying two of the hoodlums named Precious Chukwuebuka Okoro and Ogbonna Ifeanyichukwu Justice. Interrogation of the duo resulted in the subsequent arrest of the other members of the gang namely; Enyinna Asiegbu (25), Promise Sunday Obilor (26) aka Esere and Emezue Kingsley (20) aka Pakins.

When questioned by newsmen during the parade, Emezue introduced himself as a butcher by trade and went further to say that bad friends lured him into armed robbery.

He said;

We did the robbery operation actually on Saturday night, but I did not shoot the couple. It was our driver that shot them.

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