Police in Ebonyi State yesterday said they had arrested a suspected serial killer, Chukwuma Isaac, and an alleged notorious rapist and murderer Sunday Nwali. It was learnt that the arrest of Isaac from Okaria village in Abaomege, Onicha Local Government and Nwali popularly known as Machine Gun from Idembia Ezza South Local Government, led to a wild jubilation in Abaomege and Onueke. Hundreds of youths, parents and residents of the towns started rejoicing when they heard the news.
Briefing journalists yesterday at the command headquarters in Abakaliki, the state capital, the Police Commissioner, Maigari Dikko, said that on April 23, Nwali aged 28 years in company with Chukwuma Elom and Friday Ebenyi went to the residence of 17-year-old Chioma Ezekele, and Sandra Ajiogu, secondary school students at Ikweator to rape them.
He said: “Chioma resisted all efforts by Sunday Nwali to have carnal knowledge of her and in annoyance, the suspect, Nwali, pulled a locally-made pistol and shot her dead. He then dragged Sandra to a nearby bush, raped her and vanished.”
The commissioner said that the other two accomplices, who were later identified by Sandra, were arrested and charged to court for conspiracy and murder. He added that also on May 13, a gang, comprising Uchenna Okereke, Chukwuma Ozaemena and Nwabueze Nwonu, all indigenes of Effuim, Ohaukwu Local Government, after a jail term of 10 years for armed robbery, co-opted Nwali and went to attack Orie Okorie (the complainant involved in their case). He said: “When they got to the man’s house at Effuim and could not find him, Sunday Nwali (the killer of Chioma) suggested that they should kill the man’s son and instantly shot the boy dead.”
Dikko said that the first three suspects were arrested on June 5 and charged for conspiracy and murder, adding that after concerted efforts, Nwali was arrested on August 5 with a locally-made pistol. Similarly, the commissioner said that between July 16 and 23, a serial killer, Issac rampaged his community by waylaying and murdering at the same spot and in cold blood, three aged women returning from farm within one week.
He added that the blood-thirsty killer was rounded up through a well-coordinated intelligent-led operation between the vigilantes in the community and the police. According to him, the suspect confessed to the crime and is already in prison on remand.
The commissioner also said that the command arrested one Chigozie Ekwunife, a native of Dunukofia Local Government Area of Anambra State for allegedly stealing two children of his co-tenants residing at No. 28 Obi Street, Abakaliki.
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Briefing journalists yesterday at the command headquarters in Abakaliki, the state capital, the Police Commissioner, Maigari Dikko, said that on April 23, Nwali aged 28 years in company with Chukwuma Elom and Friday Ebenyi went to the residence of 17-year-old Chioma Ezekele, and Sandra Ajiogu, secondary school students at Ikweator to rape them.
He said: “Chioma resisted all efforts by Sunday Nwali to have carnal knowledge of her and in annoyance, the suspect, Nwali, pulled a locally-made pistol and shot her dead. He then dragged Sandra to a nearby bush, raped her and vanished.”
The commissioner said that the other two accomplices, who were later identified by Sandra, were arrested and charged to court for conspiracy and murder. He added that also on May 13, a gang, comprising Uchenna Okereke, Chukwuma Ozaemena and Nwabueze Nwonu, all indigenes of Effuim, Ohaukwu Local Government, after a jail term of 10 years for armed robbery, co-opted Nwali and went to attack Orie Okorie (the complainant involved in their case). He said: “When they got to the man’s house at Effuim and could not find him, Sunday Nwali (the killer of Chioma) suggested that they should kill the man’s son and instantly shot the boy dead.”
Dikko said that the first three suspects were arrested on June 5 and charged for conspiracy and murder, adding that after concerted efforts, Nwali was arrested on August 5 with a locally-made pistol. Similarly, the commissioner said that between July 16 and 23, a serial killer, Issac rampaged his community by waylaying and murdering at the same spot and in cold blood, three aged women returning from farm within one week.
He added that the blood-thirsty killer was rounded up through a well-coordinated intelligent-led operation between the vigilantes in the community and the police. According to him, the suspect confessed to the crime and is already in prison on remand.
The commissioner also said that the command arrested one Chigozie Ekwunife, a native of Dunukofia Local Government Area of Anambra State for allegedly stealing two children of his co-tenants residing at No. 28 Obi Street, Abakaliki.
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