One Tsehemba Joshua, 30, is now in police custody for allegedly robbing and murdering a 19-year-old scrap scavenger, Yusuf Ibrahim, in Enugu State.
Joshua is accused of conspiring with two accomplices, currently at large, to rob and strangle the victim. It was gathered that he had been remanded at the Enugu Correctional Custodial Centre following his court appearance.
According to a release by the Enugu State Police Command, the suspect was arrested by operatives from the Udenu Police Division of the command following a community alert regarding a shallow grave discovered in a bush at Ojo River in Ogbodu-Aba, Obollo Community, Udenu LGA.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Daniel Ndukwe, stated that “The suspect confessed to luring the victim under the pretence of selling a scrap motor vehicle propeller before robbing him of N100,000, strangling and burying his body in a shallow grave, on October 2, 2024.”
Ndukwe said after a thorough investigation of the case by the Campus Monitoring/Anti-Cultism Section of the State CID Enugu, the suspect was arraigned and remanded, pending further court proceedings.