3 arrested armed robbery suspects in Army uniform missing

TENSION is reportedly mounting in Obosi community in Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra State, over the sudden disappearance of three suspected armed robbers in Army uniform, said to have been arrested by a local vigilante group at Little Wood Estate, Obosi, while getting ready to operate.

Consequently, the state Commissioner of Police, Mr Garba Baba Umar, is said to have directed for an immediate investigation of the matter.

TribuneOnline gathered that the vigilante group, on apprehending the suspects, informed the Obosi Youth Vanguard, a youth organization established to help rid the community of criminals, Led by its President, Comrade Gil Oluchukwu Anyaoku, to come and pick the suspects for onward transfer to the Police.

Two of the suspects, Olisa Dominic,18 years and Friday Nwali, 19 years, are from Ebonyi State while Nwanosike Isaac is from Imo State.

Fielding questions from newsmen, Comrade Anyaoku stated that “on a fateful day being 17th of August, 2018, I was at my workplace when I received a phone call from somebody at Little Wood Estate, that  Vigilante group there apprehended three criminals on Army uniform, about to rob. I told him that I could not make it based on the nature of my work, so I had to call my Vice, Chimezie Ononwu, who came and picked the suspects to the community town hall in readiness for transfer to the Ogidi Area Command because we do not have confidence in the Obosi police personnel especially the Divisional Police Officer, DPO, Mr Usman Ibrahim”.

According to Anyaoku as the suspects were kept in the hall waiting for the handover to the Ogidi Police Area Command, the Police from Obosi led by one Overt, a sergeant, with some boys came and took the suspects to Obosi Police Station and since then we have not known their where-about.

It is the Obosi Police that will tell the where-about of the suspects, he lamented.

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We are a non-violent group and do not want to have any misunderstanding with the police and that was why we handed over the suspects to them.

It is left for the Police at Obosi to tell the people,  the public and the world the where-about of the Army uniformed three suspects arrested with cutlasses, they have to produce the suspects”, he vowed.

In his reaction, Dan Igbokwubili, the President General of the community, said “the sudden disappearance of the arrested suspects is a calculated attempt and conspiracy by the DPO and other bigwigs in the community to avert justice.

He said that “they use non-indigenes to perpetuate crime in the community and in this case we are not going to rest until the suspects are brought to face justice.”

Contacted, the state Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, SP Haruna Mohammed said the DPO of Obosi when contacted denied Knowledge of the
arrest,

However, on further contact to the State Commissioner of Police, Mr Garba Baba Umar, he told our correspondent that he has directed for an immediate investigation on the matter.