The Anambra state police command has arrested four more suspects in connection with the attack on a former Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Prof Chukwuma Soludo.
The police had earlier in a statement said one suspect was tracked and arrested through a telephone picked at the scene of crime.
Soludo was attacked on Wednesday in his Isuofia hometown in the Aguata Local Government Area of the state during a meeting with youths of the area.
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The State Police Public Relations Officer, Ikenga Tochukwu, in a statement on Thursday night said four more suspects had been arrested.
The PPRO said, “Police operatives attached to Anambra State Command today 1st April, 2021 have arrested four additional suspects in connection to the recent attack and gruesome murder of three policemen at Isuofia Civic Center in Aguata LGA of Anambra State.
“The suspects are: Mbah Victor,30, John Olisakwe , 21,Chigozie Omeh, 20,and Emmanuel Nnobi, 28.
He added, “The suspects confessed to have actively taken part in the attack and subsequent abduction of the Commissioner for Public and Utilities, Emeka Ezenwanne, which the Command is working assiduously to rescue.
“Consequently, efforts are still on going to apprehend other fleeing accomplices, unravel the circumstances surrounding the incidence and bring perpetrators to book.”
However, former Central Bank Governor, Prof Chukwuma Soludo, has narrated how he narrowly escaped death when gunmen unleashed terror on him.
In his words, “We were having an interactive session and we finished the mass about 4pm and the scheduled interactive meeting with the Isuofia youths. By the way, Isuofia happens to be my hometown. I’m a village boy and this is where I feel safest anywhere in the world. I walk the street, I jog in my community, I take long walks, I am everywhere as a village boy.
“With this interactive session, there were over a thousand youths seated and I was just making preliminary remarks to open up the interactive session with other dignitaries from the communities, commissioners and members of the House of Assembly. And just as I was about to wrap up and I said, ‘Finally!’ for them to open up for comments and answers, gunshots! At first, I thought maybe the policemen were shooting in the air with the kind of exuberance in the hall until I began to hear people screaming and we all scampered for safety.
“It took more than 10, 15 minutes of continuous gun battle. By the time we all came back, we saw three bodies there lying in the pool of their blood – they were the three policemen. May God grant their souls eternal rest. We will continue to pray and support their families.”
“I was totally unhurt, not in anyway hurt,” Soludo noted.
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