The police in Enugu State on Monday said one Tsehemba Joshua, 30 years old, had been remanded in prison custody for alleged armed robbery and murder of a 19-year-old scrap scavenger identified as Yusuf Ibrahim.
A statement by the command’s spokesperson, DSP Daniel Ndukwe, said Joshua was accused of conspiring with two accomplices, currently at large, to rob and strangle the victim.
According to the statement, Joshua was remanded to the Enugu Maximum Correctional Custodial Centre following his court appearance.
He said, “The suspect was arrested by the 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 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.
“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.”
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