Tobi Adebayo
The Anambra Police Command has announced that the suspected killer of activist and President Muhammadu Buhari’s die-hard supporter, Kenechukwu Okeke has been arrested and remanded in prison.
The command’s spokesperson, DSP Toochukwu Ikenga made this known in a statement on Thursday.
He identified the suspect as 29-year-old Chikadikobi Nnaji.
Ikenga said: “The suspect, one Chiadikobi Nnaji, ‘M’ Aged 29 years implicated in the brutal murder of Kenechukwu Okeke has on 9th December 2021 been charged to court and subsequently remanded in a correctional facility in Anambra State.
“Recall, following the murder incident that took place in Nkpor on 28th October 2021, which also trended on the social media, the Commissioner of Police, Anambra Command, CP Echeng Echeng had then ordered the immediate arrest of persons linked to the murder. The order resulted in the investigation and arrest of Chiadikobi Nnaji.
“The CP thanked members of the public, especially family members of the deceased as well as their well-wishers for their various support which led to the arrest of the suspect. The CP also assures that the Command will always live up to expectation in the discharge of its statutory responsibilities.”
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Recall that the widow of the deceased, Mrs Blessing Okeke, had in an interview, accused Chika, who was their tenant, of killing her husband.
”The Tenant, Chikadikobi, was living in our house, but when he packed out without our knowledge and asked to be given two months of his rent that he left, we told him he should have notified us that he was packing out.
“My husband was not around the day he came but I told him he packed out of the house without our knowledge and should not be given back any money. He threatened to deal with us, saying he will teach my husband a lesson. I called my husband and told him what the boy said and that he should not come to confront him, since they say he is a bad boy.
“My husband later reported the matter to the DSS and to the police, and he was made to write an undertaking, but he was still coming to terrorize us. Sometimes he will come to our house and break open the gate and come in and pick whatever he wants to pick.
“One day, he came to our house and my husband confronted him, without knowing that he had many boys with him downstairs, and before my husband could do anything, they macheted him, and the fuel we wanted to pour into our gen, they poured it on him and lit him up, and that was how my husband died,” the widow said.
