The Delta State Police Command says it has arrested one Uduophori Emesiri for alleged kidnapping and armed robbery at a hotel in Otor-Udu, headquarters of Udu Local Government Area of Delta State.
A statement by the Command’s Acting Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Edafe Bright, said the arrest of Emesiri was part of a manhunt of some suspects that have been terrorizing the Delta state Command and neighbouring states with kidnapping and armed robbery attacks.
According to the statement, the suspect was arrested on Wednesday following intelligence gathering which led a team of the Warri and Ughelli sectors of Eagle Net to storm Delundi Hotel, Otor-Udu, where Emesiri age 43years of Marit close Otor-Udu.
The Command listed the items recovered from him to include one silver-coloured automatic pump action, with four live cartridges, three expended cartridges and a Lexus Jeep 330 black colour with Reg. No. KUJ 583 MS suspected to be stolen.
Others are one iPhone, 11 Promo phone worth Five Hundred and Fifty Thousand Naira (N550,000), one redmi android phone worth Four Hundred Thousand Naira (N400,000) and Anti-Cult group I.D card which investigation later revealed was fake.
On Thursday, the Command said during a patrol led by the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of Otu-Jeremi Division, CSP Pius Eredei, arrested one Edijala Oghenero aged 25years and seventeen others suspected to be cultists in connection with the ongoing leadership crises in Oviri-Olomu community in Ughelli South Local Government Area.
One cut-to-size locally-made gun, one expended and one live cartridge, a battled axe, two cutlasses and fetish items were recovered from the eighteen suspected cultists in the community while an investigation is ongoing according to the police statement.
Also on Thursday the Command said the DPO of Otor-Owhe Division, SP Nnamdi Chidi led a patrol team to Oti-Oghor, where one Bright Anthony, who specialised in stealing motorcycles was arrested.
The Command said Anthony confessed to stealing motorcycles in Abraka and sells them in Oti-Oghor.
He was said to have mentioned one Justice Atama, as a member of his syndicate which also led to his arrest with an unregistered Qlink motorcycle recovered at the residence of one Victor still at large.
The Police in Delta said efforts are in progress to recover the other stolen motorcycles and arrest the fleeing suspect.
Below are details of other breakthroughs recorded by the Command as contained in the statement.
On the 18/3/2021 at about 0345hrs, at new road junction Sapele, patrol team from Sapele Division on stop and search sighted a motorcyclist who on sighting the patrol team turned his motor cycle in an attempt to escape, the police men smartly went after him, the suspect highlighted from the motorcycle and ran into the bush, the suspect immediately ran into the bush and abandoned a bag, on searching the bag, a cut-to-size double barrel gun, a bag containing two identity card of Delta State Polytechnic Otefe Oghara, four ATM of various banks were recovered, the suspect also abandon one plasma TV tied on the motorcycle. Manhunt for the fleeing suspect is ongoing.
On the 18/3/2021 at about 0800hrs, one Etokwu Fidelis ‘m’ of No. 19 Obi Ikechukwu road Agbor reported at the Station that he was attacked with two bottles at Iregwa street Agbor-Obi by one Matthew Ifemecho ‘m’ who after the attack rushed to his house opposite the scene and brought a locally made short gun and shot at his motorcycles thereby causing damage to it. The divisional police officer Agbor immediately mobilized policemen to the scene and arrested the said suspect, one (1) locally made short gun was recovered from him, investigation is ongoing.
Use of hard drugs has been one major problem affecting Nigerian Youth. The divisional police officer Abraka division has been on the lookout for those that unlawfully selling these drugs to our youth with the goal to arrest and prosecute them. On the 17/3/2021 at about 1030hrs, After discrete investigation, intelligence gathering and surveillance by men of Abraka division, A team of detectives led by ASP Collins Onya of Abraka Division in conjunction with Abraka youths headed by their President one Efe Don Kigho, the team swift into action and arrested three (3) chemist owners: one Mr. Nmoye Kenneth ‘m’ 27yrs, Ofeh Collins ‘m’ 35yrs and Raymond Emeka ‘m’ 33yrs. The above suspects deal on the sales of hard drugs and currently arrested with prohibited drugs in large quantities , they include Tramadol, Rohypnol, Sioinol, Diazepam. Investigation is ongoing to arrest their accomplices.
On the 16/3/2021 at about 1030hrs, Mr. Larry Opori ‘m’ of No. 19 Akponena street reported that on the 2nd of February, 2021, one Jame Emmanuel Oludare during a chat with his brighter one Ebiwori Opori ‘m’ who is currently in prison custody Sokoto via facebook, said that the said Emmanuel Oludare introduced himself as a DSS officer that he can secure his release from prison with the sum of seven hundred and twenty thousand (N720, 000) which was transferred into his Access bank account No. 1425728133. He stated further that since then Oludare refused to pick his call. The divisional police officer mobilized men immediately to track down the said suspect, the suspect Jame Emmanuel Oludare ‘m’ was arrested. Investigation is ongoing.
