Police nab 678 suspended criminals in Delta

Delta State Police command’s fight against crime and criminality have yielded the desired results following the command’s arrest of over 678 suspects for various crimes between February and December this year.

According to the State Police Commissioner, Olufemi Abaniwonda, the Police have arrested about 130 suspended armed robbers, 88 suspected kidnappers, 76 murder suspects, 329 suspected cultists, 54 suspects arrested for rape and defilement offences within the period.

Abaniwonda explained that 150 firearms, including 32 AK-47/AK-49 Rifles, 27 Beretta pistols, 72 single barrel/locally made cut-to-size guns, and 19 Pump action guns were recovered from the suspects.

He added that 5,042 rounds of ammunition/cartridges were also recovered within the period, and reiterated that 85% of suspects arrested within the period under review were largely males and mostly youths.

The Police boss also informed that a 10-month-old child named Prevail Jonathan was reportedly killed by its Mother who declared the child missing.

He said while the deceased’s mother was at the police station lodging a complaint over her missing child, the Police received a call that a child was found floating at the Aviara community river.

“The child was brought to the Station and it was discovered that it is the body of the missing child.

“And during the investigation, the mother of the child, one Blessing Ibuku ‘f’ confessed that she was the one who threw the baby into the river on November 31, 2024”.

Abaniwonda said the mother of the child admitted “throwing the baby away because her friends and other girls were making fun of her that the child did not have a father”.

He also talked about the murder of an eight year old Ifeanyi who was missing and accused one of their customers named Destiny Lawrence who usually comes to their shop to patronise them.

The Police commissioner stated that when the father of the boy noticed his son was missing, he asked the said Destiny who denied knowledge of the whereabouts of his son.

However later that day, the corpse of his son was found in an uncompleted building and some of his body parts were missing.

The suspect, Destiny Lawrence was arrested and during interrogation, the suspect confessed that one native Doctor known as Jonah from Otolokpo community contracted him to look for a small boy for him for the sum of N30,000.

“He then lured the deceased to where the native doctor was waiting. Then the native doctor took the deceased to an uncompleted building and slit his throat.”