A staff of the Item Street branch of the Diamond Bank Plc, Owerri, Mr. Daniel Chibueze Meshach is presently cooling his heels in the detention cell of the Imo state Police command for allegedly masterminding an armed robbery operation in the state.
Daniel Meshach, 27, from Isingwu Ofeme-Ohuhu in Umuahia North council area of Abia state and two others were arrested by men of the Ambush Squad of the Imo state police command after a fierce confrontation with the Police as they tried to escape the scene of crime after successfully robbing their victim of cash and valuables at Umurim, Nekede, in Owerri West Council area of Imo state.
Lamenting his fate, the very eloquent banker confessed to the crime. He agreed he planned the operation and picked the victim of the robbery himself, apparently through privileged information. He blamed his involvement in armed robbery on peer pressure and pleaded to be given a second chance.
Also arrested and paraded alongside the banker was one Emmanuel Chisom, a student of the Federal Polytechnic Nekede, Owerri, who confessed to supplying three firearms for the robbery operation.
Chisom, the campus cultist who supplied firearms
Taking questions from newsmen, Chisom denied being the current leader of a dreaded campus cult group as alleged, noting that he was deposed last year, as leader of the Vikings confraternity, after what he termed a ‘mutiny’. It is widely believed that apparent cult involvement may have drawn the banker into crime.
Two locally made pistols were also recovered from them. However, the Imo state Police command has assured that the banker and his gang would soon be charged to court on completion of investigations into the matter.
Meanwhile, the Imo state Police Commissioner, Muhammad Musa Katsina while presenting an account of his stewardship for the past one year stated that his command has identified 72 exit and entry routes into Imo state. He announced that within the year under review, his command arrested 649 suspects for kidnapping; 503 suspects for armed robbery; 261 suspects for baby factory; 486 suspects for cultism; 55 suspects for murder; 302 for electoral offences; 510 for drugs and allied offences and 20 for burglary and stealing.
Katsina who apparently believes in diligent prosecution further informed newsmen that out of the total of 2786 suspects arrested within the year under review, 2405 of them have been charged to court while 381 suspects are still undergoing investigation.
Source: crimefacts.org
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