The Anambra State Police Command on Wednesday paraded two
policemen and 25 others for various offences. The two policemen, Corporal
Peter Ilo and Constable Nicholas Ogbuanu were paraded for alleged armed
robbery and impersonation, respectively.
The Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Ali Okechukwu, at
the command headquarters in Amawbia, said Ilo, who was serving at
the Oguta Police Division in Imo State was arrested on August 20 along with
suspected members of his gang ─ Ekenne Ohanusi and Benjamin Obinwanne ─ in
connection with several cases of armed robbery, including the snatching of a
Lexus jeep at the Ozubulu area of the state on June 5.
He said the Lexus, which belonged to one Mrs. Adaeze Ohizu,
was recovered from the gang after a tip-off. “The police corporal and the arrested suspects
have confessed to the crime. Efforts are on to recover their operational
weapons and also arrest other fleeing members of the gang.”
The PPRO said the second policeman, who had been dismissed
from the force, was arrested after he was caught extorting money from a
motorcycle rider under the pretext that he was a serving policeman. “On August
17, 2015, at about 1pm, the team, led by DSP Bernard Mama, arrested one
Nicholas Ogbuanu at Upper Iweka, Onitsha, in police uniform. The suspect was
seen extorting money from a commercial motorcyclist. On interrogation, the
suspect disclosed that he was dismissed from the force in 2005.”
However, Ogbuanu insisted that he was still a serving
policeman, saying, “I am still in the police. I have been transferred, but I
have not reported.”
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Very shameful.
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