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Vanguard, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2018—7<br />

:Vanguard News :@vanguardnews :@vanguardnews NEWS HOTLINES: 08052867023, 08052867058<br />

•... as Police nab killers of PDP chieftain five months after<br />

that the baby was not sold,<br />

rather the little boy was sent to<br />

the home in Owerri for care.<br />

killers' arrests<br />

The team, according to<br />

Okoro, also arrested four men<br />

suspected to be the killers of<br />

Chairman of PDP, in Ogbogoro<br />

community, Obio/Akpor Local<br />

Government Area of the state,<br />

Mr. Ihuigwe, who was<br />

By Kingsley Omonobi<br />

ABUJA—THE<br />

Police<br />

Intelligence Response<br />

Team, IRT, under the office of<br />

Inspector General of Police, have<br />

arrested the ringleader of the<br />

herdsmen and three other<br />

kingpins, who carried out the<br />

killing of scores of Benue<br />

citizens, following the enactment<br />

of the law against open grazing<br />

by the Benue State government.<br />

A senior Police source attached<br />

By Anayo Okoli<br />

UMUAHIA— A disaster was<br />

reportedly averted at<br />

Umuohu Okpula, Ndume<br />

community, Ibeku in Umuahia<br />

North Local Government area of<br />

Abia State, when a vigilant<br />

grandmother prevented a fourday-old<br />

baby from being carried<br />

away by a hawk.<br />

The grandmother, who gave her<br />

name as Adeline Emmanuel,<br />

explained that she was lying<br />

down, when she heard the loud<br />

murdered in September 2017.<br />

Okoro stated that the killers<br />

of Ihuigwe were arrested<br />

through investigations, adding<br />

that the suspects have<br />

confessed to the crime.<br />

According to the Police boss,<br />

“following a tip-off, men of the<br />

IGP Monitoring Unit arrested<br />

to the IGP’s IRT disclosed that<br />

the ringleader, along with three<br />

other suspected killers, were<br />

nabbed in Tunga town, Nasarawa<br />

State.<br />

The officer said: “In line with<br />

the directives of the Inspector<br />

General, Ibrahim Idris, on the<br />

arrest of all persons involved in<br />

the killings in Benue State and<br />

those in possession of AK-47 rifles<br />

and other prohibited arms, four<br />

principal suspects were arrested<br />

in Tunga town, Nasarawa State,<br />

flapping of bird's wings.<br />

According to her, she heard noise<br />

of a struggling object as the bird<br />

was trying to fly through the<br />

window, but fell down on the floor<br />

of the one-storey building,<br />

prompting her to shout at her<br />

daughter, mother of the baby, to<br />

shut the window.<br />

She said: “I saw the hawk drop<br />

down where my four-day-old<br />

granddaughter was sleeping and<br />

was trying to carry the baby who<br />

was probably too heavy for it.<br />

"It was then that I started<br />

one Ifeanyi Okoro, 25,<br />

residing at Omagwa<br />

community in Ikwerre Local<br />

Government Area. On<br />

interrogation, the suspect<br />

confessed to have been<br />

involved in the murder of<br />

Ihuigwe.<br />

“He mentioned Ajade Niyi,<br />

between February 16 and 19<br />

by IRT in connection with the<br />

killing of Sergeant Solomon<br />

Dung and other Police officers<br />

and many innocent citizens in<br />

Benue State.<br />

“They are Alhaji Laggi, 40,<br />

mastermind and gang leader<br />

of the herdsmen group;<br />

Mallam Mumini Abdullahi,<br />

34; Muhammed Adamu, 30,<br />

and Ibrahim Sule, 32.<br />

"They have confessed to the<br />

killings and mentioned other<br />

shouting, asking my daughter<br />

to close the windows.<br />

“My shouting and that of my<br />

daughter coupled with others,<br />

who were by then aware of what<br />

was happening, attracted the<br />

community youths."<br />

She said the youths were able<br />

to catch the hawk and break its<br />

legs and wings.<br />

In her account, the mother of<br />

the four-day-old baby girl, Mrs.<br />

Joy Emmanuel, said she was<br />

outside when her mother-inlaw's<br />

shouting made her rush<br />

Austin Isotec, Chief Joseph<br />

Iwuoku and another, who is<br />

at large, as being involved<br />

in the assassination.”<br />

‘Why we killed him’<br />

Shockingly, one of the<br />

suspects in the murder of<br />

Ihuigwe, Niyi Ajade,<br />

Police arrest mastermind of New Year killings in Benue, 3 others<br />

By Esther Onyegbula<br />

A<br />

member of a six-man<br />

robbery gang that<br />

specialised in dispossessing<br />

victims of their phones for the<br />

purpose of hacking into their<br />

bank accounts, has said he<br />

acquired the knowledge<br />

through Google.<br />

Parading the suspects, Lagos<br />

State Commissioner of Police,<br />

Imohimi Edgal, said Nwanze<br />

Ifeanyi, 27; Martins Uche, 27;<br />

and Solomon Dike, 31, rob<br />

people of their phones and flee<br />

on motorcycles.<br />

He stated that a member of<br />

the second group, Muritala<br />

Mohammed, 28 alias Swallow,<br />

using computer apps, retrieve<br />

the names and bank details of<br />

the original owner of the SIM<br />

including BVN, adding that<br />

the recovered details are used<br />

to determine the account<br />

balance.<br />

"Monies in the account are<br />

then transferred into different<br />

accounts sourced by the third<br />

group, made up of Shamson<br />

Mustapha, 25, and Ali Hassan,<br />

27,” Edgal added.<br />

Swallow, said to be a<br />

secondary school dropout,<br />

•He was killed so we can sell a plot of land—Suspect<br />

disclosed that the six-member<br />

gang was divided into two<br />

groups with one of the groups<br />

responsible for stealing phones,<br />

while the other group, to which<br />

he belongs, is responsible for<br />

transferring money from<br />

victims’ accounts.<br />

He stated that stolen phones,<br />

whose SIMs are registered with<br />

banks, were major targets.<br />

His arrest and those of his<br />

accomplices by operatives of the<br />

Rapid Response Squad, RRS, of<br />

the Lagos State Police<br />

Command, followed a<br />

complaint by one Kemi<br />

Benson, whose telephone<br />

was stolen during her son’s<br />

birthday at Egbeda area of the<br />

state, on January 20.<br />

According to Edgal, “when<br />

the victim went for SIM card<br />

replacement, as soon as she<br />

inserted her SIM into her<br />

phone, she received a bank<br />

alert of N1.153 million<br />

transferred from her account<br />

gang members in possession<br />

of the Police rifles they took<br />

from the slain officers as well<br />

as others in possession of<br />

arms.<br />

“Security agents have<br />

commenced follow-up<br />

operations in Benue, Taraba<br />

and Nasarawa states.<br />

“The DIG Operations, who<br />

is heading the operations,<br />

has spoken more on behalf of<br />

the Inspector General of<br />

Police on the investigation.”<br />

I learned cyber crime skills through Google—Suspect<br />

The suspects<br />

to other banks.<br />

“After an investigation,<br />

gangs, who specialise in<br />

dispossessing people of<br />

their mobile phones while<br />

riding on motorcycles, were<br />

apprehended.<br />

“The gang is made up of<br />

two groups. One specialises<br />

in snatching the mobile<br />

phone and sell to the other<br />

group to generate bank<br />

details and BVN to transfer<br />

the cash.”<br />

in, only to be confronted with<br />

the unusual sight.<br />

According to her, it was only<br />

the grace of God that made her<br />

to survive the shock, as she had<br />

never seen such an incident in<br />

all her life.<br />

She explained that they live<br />

upstairs in one of the<br />

apartments in the building, but<br />

“because the weather on that<br />

Sunday was unbearably hot,<br />

we decided to leave the<br />

windows open, which was how<br />

the hawk flew into the room and<br />

disclosed that they killed the<br />

victim so they could have<br />

access to sell off a portion of<br />

land linked to him as caretaker.<br />

Ajade said that the chief who<br />

wants to sell the land said the<br />

area will be sold for N20 million,<br />

adding that he was given<br />

N30,000 to carry out the killing.<br />

Gunmen<br />

kidnap<br />

youth<br />

leader in<br />

Akwa Ibom<br />

By Emmanuel<br />

Ayungbe<br />

UYO—THE youth<br />

leader of Udianga<br />

Enem community, Etim<br />

Ekpo Local Government<br />

Area of Akwa Ibom<br />

State, Mr. Itoro Inuaowo,<br />

was, yesterday,<br />

kidnapped by gunmen.<br />

It was gathered that the<br />

youth leader was<br />

abducted in the early<br />

hours of the day by<br />

militants, suspected to be<br />

members of the Iceland<br />

cult.<br />

According to a local<br />

vigilante, who would not<br />

want his name in print,<br />

“the gunmen arrived the<br />

youth leader's compound<br />

on three motorcycles at<br />

about 6a.m. and whisked<br />

him away at gunpoint.”<br />

It was gathered the<br />

Iceland members,<br />

popularly called The<br />

Red, had been on the<br />

prowl to avenge the<br />

murder of their leader,<br />

Akaniyene Jumbo (Iso<br />

Akpafid), who was<br />

ambushed and killed by<br />

security agents last<br />

month.<br />

The motive of the<br />

kidnap is yet unclear, but<br />

sources it is not<br />

unconnected with the<br />

efforts made by the<br />

youth leader to raise<br />

funds for security of the<br />

community.<br />

Hawk attempts to fly away with 4-day-old baby in Abia<br />

tried to carry my baby.”<br />

For the landlord of the building,<br />

Mr. Aaron Ibeji, he has never seen<br />

or heard that a bird, no matter its<br />

size, tried to carry a baby.<br />

He said the incident nearly<br />

shattered the peace of the<br />

community.<br />

Ibeji, however, expressed<br />

happiness that the youths of the<br />

community were able to catch the<br />

bird. He said that they were waiting<br />

for the elders of the community to<br />

decide on what they are going to<br />

do with the bird.<br />

C<br />

M<br />

YK

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