The police command in Abia have arrested at least twenty criminal suspects, including five boys, who allegedly robbed and shot a man and his wife to death in Umuahia on Saturday.
The suspects, who were identified as Precious Okoro, Justice Ogbonna, Enyinna Asiegbu, Promise Obilor (a.k.a “Esere”) and Kingsley Emezuo (a.k.a Pakins), were said to have attacked the couple, when they were returning home with their children after the day’s business.
The Commissioner of Police, Mr Ene Okon, who paraded the suspects before newsmen at the command’s headquarters on Bende Road, Umuahia, said that they were arrested by a team of operatives from Umuahia Central Police Station and members of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) in Operation Puff Ader
