Man, 30, arrested for armed robbery, murder of Scrap Scavenger

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By Iheanyi Chukwudi

A 30-year-old man, Tsehemba Joshua, has been arrested by the Enugu State Police Command for conspiracy, armed robbery, and murder of a scrap scavenger.

Joshua according to the Police is accused of conspiring with two accomplices, currently at large, to rob and strangle the victim, 19-year-old scrap scavenger, Yusuf Ibrahim.

Confirming the incident, the State Police Public Relations Officer, Daniel Ndukwe (DSP), said the suspect had already been arraigned and remanded to the Enugu Correctional Custodial Centre following his court appearance.

Ndukwe said 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 Local Government of the state.

He said, "The suspect confessed to luring the victim under the pretense 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.

After a thorough investigation of the case by the Campus Monitoring/Anti-Cultism Section of the State CID Enugu, the suspect was arraigned and subsequently remanded, pending further court proceedings."