A 30-year-old male suspect, identified as Tsehemba Joshua, has been arraigned and remanded in a correctional centre for the alleged armed robbery and murder of a 19-year-old scrap scavenger, Yusuf Ibrahim and burying him in a shallow grave.
Joshua, who was accused of conspiring with two accomplices, currently at large, to rob and strangle the victim has been remanded at the Enugu Correctional Custodial Centre following his court appearance.
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.
A statement by the spokesman of the police in Enugu, Daniel Ndukwe disclosed that 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.
Ndukwe added that 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.
