Asaba, Delta, Nigeria – By Sonde Ojeikere
Law enforcement agents at B-Division of the Nigerian Police in Asaba, the capital of Delta State, have apprehended seven suspects in connection with stolen aluminum sheets worth over N50 million.
It was learnt that the aluminum sheets had recently been carted away from Guo Group of Companies at former Asaba Textile Mill and was reported to the police by the management of the company.
The Law enforcement agents were said to have swung into action following the report.
It was gathered that at the point of sale of the stolen items at Okwe, allegedly to some buyers from Onitsha in Anambra State, six suspects were arrested.
The seventh person was also arrested later, while another was said to have escaped.
On the whole, those arrested by the police are Sunday Egwu, aged 24, Charles Ikebisi, 37, Pastor Zephaniah, 54, Osita Uche, aged 31, Hyginus Dibor, aged 24, David Chukunyere aged 32 and Obiorah Okeke, 38.
About 600 aluminum sheets were said to have been recovered from the suspects, whom the Delta State Police Relations Officer (PPRO) said had confessed to the crime.
Other suspects, including the gang leader, said to be on the run, were also being traced for possible arrest at the time of this report.
In a related development, police detectives at the Delta Police Command are on the bail of a 44-year-old housewife, whose name was given as Patience Nnaemaka in Ugheli Community, near Asaba, the state capital, for allegedly disappearing into the thin air with a new born baby at a private hospital ward in the area.
While the police have intensified their search for the woman, they have arrested a ward orderly attached to the private hospital and the husband of the suspect.
Reports reaching us said that the woman had been married for close to 10 years with no child after all her efforts to seek help from traditional doctors failed.
Police Public Relations Officer in the Delta State, DSP Justina confirmed the arrest of the ward orderly and the husband of the suspect.
She disclosed that the woman was admitted into the private hospital for malaria sickness and that while she was on admission, the mother of the baby had just put to bed.
After two days, she said the unsuspecting nursing mother pleaded with her (the suspect) to look after the baby, while she went to buy some of the baby things, a situation she allegedly took advantage of and disappeared with the newborn.
