Saturday, September 27, 2025 - Operatives of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command have arrested seven suspected notorious “one-chance” kidnappers in connection with the m8rder of Miss Oluchi Opara Glory,
Opara was m8rdered shortly after completing her a National
Youth Service Corps (NYSC) programme in Abuja.
The breakthrough followed a petition submitted on July 21,
2025, by Onyegbula Akujuobi & Co. legal practitioners to the Inspector
General of Police, which was endorsed to the FCT Police Commissioner and acted
upon by the Scorpion Squad led by ACP Victor O. Godfrey.
According to security analyst Zagazola Makama, the suspects
were arrested between August 8 and September 25, 2025, following actionable
digital and reconstructive intelligence.
The arrested suspects are: Solomon Obada (29), from Ado LGA,
Benue, resident in Mararaba, Nasarawa State, Olemba Ajonwe (29), from Otukpo
LGA, Benue, resident in Aso, Mararaba, Aba Godwin (40), from Ogwarigbo, Benue,
resident in Mararaba – recently released from prison two months ago over a “one
chance” case, Kadijat Yakubu (18), from Sokoto State, resident in Badarawa,
Kaduna State.
Others included Sunday Ejih Okpeh (29), from Otukpo, Benue,
resident in Aso, Mararaba, Joseph Oche Samuel (25), from Benue, resident in
Aso, Mararaba, Michael Sunday Eneh (25), from Cross River State, resident in
Aso.
Sources said the victim’s mobile phone was forensically
tracked and recovered in Kaduna from suspect Kadijat Yakubu.
During interrogation, suspects Obada and Ajonwe confessed
that they had held the victim inside their operational vehicle, a blue Golf car
and st@bbed her during a struggle over her android phone.
They further confessed to abandoning her while she was
bleeding in Wuse II, Abuja.
The police said efforts were ongoing to locate the victim and
apprehend one fugitive suspect still at large.
Items recovered from the suspects include the victim’s phone
and the operational vehicle.
The sources assured that investigation was ongoing and that
justice would be served.
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