By Suleiman Anyalewechi
The Anambra State Police authorities on Friday, June 13, 2025, announced the arrest of two security personnel for shooting and killing a 17 year old while on the heels of a member of a suspected criminal.
This is as the Command also informed that it apprehended a 19 year old member of a kidnapping and robbery gang, one Chimaobi Mbonu.
A statement from the Command’s spokesperson Tochukwu Ikenga, noted the arrested security operatives who are members of a local vigilante outfit while shooting in the air in the process of trying to arrest a suspect accidentally killed the teenage boy at the Onitsha Main Market.
Irate traders were, however, said to have assisted the Onitsha Main Market formation in intercepting the killer vigilante personnel.
The Police spokesman also informed that Mbonu, a key member of the kidnap gang that abducted and murdered one George Onwurah in May 2024 after collecting ransom, was arrested in. Ndiukwuenu community in Orumba North local Council ,on Thursday June 12, 2025, by operatives from the Awgbu Divisional Police Headquarters.
According to Ikenga, the State Commissioner of Police CP Ikioye Orutugu, while frowning at the unprofessional conducts of the vigilante personnel, has directed the transfer of the case to the State Criminal Investigation Department in Awka for a a thorough inquest.
He also issued a matching order for the remaining members of the criminal gang who are still at large to be arrested at all cost.
” Police operatives attached to the Onitsha Main Market Police Division leveraging on the support of some traders ,have arrested two suspects ,allegedly involved in the murder of a 17-year old boy ,and recovered one automatic pump action gun.
“Eyewitness account revealed that the suspects who are, allegedly, security operatives while attempting to arrest a suspect started shooting indiscriminately and regrettably,
a bullet hit the innocent boy.
Meanwhile, police operatives attached to the Awgu Divisional Headquarters leveraging on community support on12th June 2025, arrested one Chimaobi Mbonu,aged 19 years.
He is, allegedly, a member of a kidnapping gang involved in the kidnap, and murder of one late George Onwurah in May 2024, at Ndiukwuenu Village, in Orumba North Local Government Area
“Preliminary information revealed that the said Chimaobi ,and some other gang members still at large kidnapped ,and tortured their victims to dead after collecting ransom
“The criminal gang is also responsible for the vandalization of the community health care centre ,where they stole a lot of electrical materials and other valuables”, the Police stated.
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