Gunmen kill lawyer, snatch car in Delta
By Emma Amaize
OBIARUKU – SUSPECTED bandits have shot dead 36 years old lawyer,
Emmanuel Egwuatu at Eziokpor road, Obiaruku community in Delta Sate and
snatched his Honda car.
Vanguard learnt that his car with registration number, AKD 382 AA, broke
down along Eziokpor road in the community and he was waiting for a
mechanic to fix the car when the robbers struck.
Police Public Relations Officer in Delta State, Celestina Kalu,
confirmed the incident, adding that detectives from Obiaruku Division
visited the scene and removed the remains to the mortuary for autopsy.
However, she said luck ran out of two armed men operating with a motor
cycle,with registration number, ACA 833 QA, after robbing one Julius
Abanum of his Toyota Camry car, registration number, BKW 892 AR, of his
car, parked at Winners Church Chapel, Obiaruku at gunpoint.
Kalu asserted that an informant, who heard about the snatched car,
“informed detectives that two young men he could identify if seen took
him to fix a faulty army green colour Toyota Camry car at a lonely spot,
along Obiaruku/Utagba-Uno road, close to Ebedei village.”
“The informant further disclosed that the young men, who could not
immediately pay for his workmanship, pledged a handset, promising to pay
him later and collect their handset,” she added.
Her words, “Based on the information, detectives mounted surveillance
and later arrested one Festus Okenedu ‘m’, aged 33 years when he came
back to collect the handset from the electrician, while his accomplice
escaped.”
She disclosed, “One black bag containing one laptop, some documents,
Bible and Christian tracts were recovered from the suspect. Information
obtained from the laptop revealed that the recovered laptop belonged to
Barrister. Emmanuel Egwatu, killed the previous night by unknown
person(s).”
The police spokesperson said, “The suspect is assisting the police in
its investigation into the two incidents while efforts to track down the
fleeing suspect and recover the snatched vehicle are ongoing.”
