The Enugu State Police Command has arraigned Tsehemba Joshua, a 30-year-old male suspect, for the alleged armed robbery and murder of a 19-year-old scrap scavenger, Yusuf Ibrahim.
Joshua is accused of conspiring with two accomplices, who are currently at large, to rob and strangle the victim. He has been remanded at the Enugu Correctional Custodial Centre following his court appearance.
The suspect was arrested by operatives of the Udenu Police Division after receiving a community alert about a shallow grave discovered in a bush at Ojo River in Ogbodu-Aba, Obollo Community, Udenu LGA.
According to a statement made by the Police Public Relations Officer, Enugu State Command, DSP Daniel Ndukwe, the suspect confessed to luring the victim under the pretense of selling a scrap motor vehicle propeller before robbing him of N100,000, strangling him, 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.”
