Police arraign male suspect for Conspiracy, murder of Scrap Scavenger in Enugu

From Chinelo Kodilichukwu Enugu 

The Enugu State Police Command has arraigned and remanded  Tsehemba Joshua, a 30-year-old male suspect, for alleged armed robbery and murder of a 19-year-old scrap scavenger, Yusuf Ibrahim. 

The Police Public relations officer Enugu State Command, Daniel Ndukwe in a statement signed and issued to newsmen said that Joshua is accused of conspiring with two accomplices, currently at large, to rob and strangle the victim. 

He noted that Joshua has been remanded to the Enugu Correctional Custodial Centre following his court appearance.

The Nations News Nigeria reports that 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 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.