17th August, 2018
Jethro Ibileke/Benin
The Edo State Police Command on Friday paraded 102 suspected criminals, cultists, kidnappers and hoodlums arrested in different parts of the state.
The suspects were arrested for different offences across the State, ranging from cultism, fraud, kidnapping, armed robbery and murder.
The State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Babatunde Kokumo, who paraded the suspects before journalists at the Command headquarters in Benin, advised criminally-minded persons to either repent or relocate to other places, else, they would face the full wrath of the law.
He alleged that many of suspects who escaped from the long arms of the law in neighbouring States, were caught in Edo following a crack down on criminal hideout in the State.
Many of the suspects confessed to the crimes they were accused of, and narrated their level of involvement in the crimes.
Among the suspects paraded was 14-year-old Anna Amos, who as arrested last Wednesday, for the allegedly murder of 71-year-old Madam Helen Adodo, a day before, by smasshing her head with a stone.
The teenage suspect who had lived with the septuagenarian for about four years at Guobadia Street, in Benin, said some unseen spirit who control her, told her to kill her victim.
Anna further disclosed that the occultic spirit sternly warned her never to disclose that she was the one responsible for the death of her victim.
Also paraded was 26-year-old Wisdom Olocha, an indigene who was accused of capable of opening any locked door after knocking the door with a ring strapped to his finger.
The suspect, who denied opening doors with with rings, however, said he was arrested after breaking into a car and stole a woman’s bag..
Items recovered from the various suspects include laptops, cellphones, undisclosed amount of money, banned drugs, cutlasses, assorted sophisticated arms and ammunitions and locally made cut-to-size guns.