The police in Anambra State have arrested nine suspects involved in the kidnap and gruesome m8rder of the member representing Onitsha North 1 Constituency in the Anambra State House of Assembly, Hon Justice Azuka.
Azuka was abducted on December 24, 2024, by gunmen along Ugwunaobankpa Road in Inland Town, Onitsha, while going home for Christmas.
His decomposing body was discovered by security operatives near the Second Niger Bridge on February 6, 2025.
Anambra State Commissioner of Police, CP Nnaghe Obono Itam paraded the suspected k!llers at the police headquarters Awka on Friday, February 7.
CP Itam told newsmen while parading the men that the most dangerous in the gang was a 20-year-old Peter Sunday, who has a bold tattoo on his chest: “No peace 4 d Government”.
The commissioner said his men, in a joint operation with Anambra State Vigilante Operatives, acted on intelligence and were able to apprehend the nine men linked to the kidnap and murd3r of the lawmaker.
He said one of the suspected kidnappers sustained a gunshot injury in his leg during a gun duel with the Police operatives.
“The arrested suspects include: Ugochukwu Onuorah aged 30 years, Ikemefuna Ossai aged 20 years, Ikenna Orugu aged 27 years, Chibuike Obiefuna aged 19 years, Chinonso Olisa aged 19 years years, Chinedu Okoli aged 21 years, David Ojini aged 25 years and the most notorious of them, one Peter Sunday aged 20 years with a big tattoo inscription of *No peace 4 d Government* on his chest,” he said.
He further announced that the Command Operatives successfully arrested one Chidiebere Nwosu, a kidnap suspect in Uruagu, Nnewi and neutralised some of his gang members that were involved in the attack of Police personnel attached to the Rapid Response Squad after a successful arrest on 3rd October 2024.
He said his men had successfully neutralised more than one hundred (100) notorious criminals and successfully destroyed many criminal camps in Ufuma, Eziowelle, Achalla, Ogbaru and many other places in the State.
