Police Arraign Man Over Alleged Conspiracy, Murder of Scrap Scavenger In Enugu

The police in Enugu State, Monday, arraigned one Tsehemba Joshua, for alleged armed robbery and murder of a 19-year-old scrap scavenger, Yusuf Ibrahim.

The command’s Public Relations Officer, Daniel Ndukwe, in a statement in Enugu, said 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.

He said 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.

The statement in full below:

The Enugu State Police Command reports the arraignment and remand of Tsehemba Joshua, a 30-year-old male suspect, for alleged armed robbery and murder of a 19-year-old scrap scavenger, Yusuf Ibrahim. Joshua is accused of conspiring with two accomplices, currently at large, to rob and strangle the victim. He has been remanded to 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.

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.

DSP DANIEL NDUKWE, anipr, mnisma
Police Public Relations Officer,
Enugu State Command,
State Headquarters,
GRA, Enugu.
November 4, 2024.