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Ubulu-Uku Monarch: Six In Police Net

By Hendrix Oliomogbe, Asaba
12 February 2016   |   10:36 pm
SIX persons, who were arrested over the kidnap and murder of the traditional ruler of Ubulu-Uku in Aniocha North Council of Delta State, Obi Edward Akaeze Ofulue III, were yesterday paraded before journalists by the state Police Command in Asaba.

SIX persons, who were arrested over the kidnap and murder of the traditional ruler of Ubulu-Uku in Aniocha North Council of Delta State, Obi Edward Akaeze Ofulue III, were yesterday paraded before journalists by the state Police Command in Asaba.

The Commissioner of Police, Mr. Alkali Baba Usman, explained that on Tuesday, January 5, this year the Police at Igbodo received a text message that an unmarked black Toyota Land Cruiser was seen abandoned in a bush along Obior/Igbodo road.

Usman said the Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) was recovered to the Police station, where a search conducted on the vehicle revealed some documents indicating that the said vehicle belonged to the monarch, who was abducted earlier in the day.

The Police chief said: “In view of this revelation, the palace was contacted and it was gathered that the Obi left the palace alone in the said vehicle to Asaba earlier in the day” and his absent raised curiosity that he may have been kidnapped.

Continuing, Usman explained that the kidnappers opened communication, using the traditional ruler’s mobile phone and demanded for ransom on the February 6.

According to the police boss, one Pastor Charles Afamefuna, who was found wandering, was taken to Umunede Police Station and later confirmed that he was kidnapped together with the Obi.

“In the course of investigation, on February 8, this year, the late Obi’s Samsung handset was recovered from one Jamilu Ahmed at Abraka Market in Asaba and he was promptly arrested.

“The suspect’s useful statement to investigators led to the arrest of one Umar Abubakar, who claimed to have sold the handset to the former.

“Abubakar claimed that one “money dey,” presently at large, gave him the said handset to sell for him.”
Usman disclosed that one Usman Musbau, who deleted the contacts from the Obi’s phone, has also been arrested, while Suleman Musa, the second-in-command of the kidnap kingpin.

He disclosed that Farida Abubakar, a girlfriend to Garba Abubakar, who was in possession of the Akamefuna’s Nokia Asha 201 phone, was nabbed in Adamawa State and Garba Abubakar, the leader of the gang, nicknamed Dogo, was arrested at a Fulani settlement in Alfarma village in Gangaza Council of Sokoto State.
The command assured that everyone connected to the crime would be brought to book.

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