A 20 YEAR-OLD final year student of Delta State Polytechnic
Ogwashi-Uku was Monday, paraded at the State police headquarters Asaba
for allegedly stealing a toddler from a day-care school.
State police commissioner, Mr. Ikechukwu Aduba said that “the suspect
who once did her IT in the said day care and primary school in Asaba
sneaked in and took away the child. Unfortunately, she forget her bag
which assisted us (police) in tracing her to Onitsha where the child was
rescued”.
The suspect (names withheld) who claimed to be presently pregnant and a mother of two denied stealing the baby.
She told newsmen that “I was teaching the child during my IT in that school (names withheld) around Bonsac area of Asaba.
I only saw the child wandering around last Friday and I took him to
Onitsha because when I took him to the school nobody was found there and
wanted to bring him back today (Monday) before I was arrested”.
Also the CP described last weekend incidents as “black day”, saying
that his men had gone underground to
track down the hoodlums that
attacked member representing Aniocha/Oshimili federal constituency, Mr.
Ndudi Elumelu among other operations.
Said he, I want to assure the people of Delta State that already we
have started picking some of the bad elements within our midst. We will
get them”, he assured.
He also doled out the sum of N2.5 million public spirited individuals
and volunteers drawn from Asaba, Ughelli and Warri axis for “aiding the
command with useful information that led to the bursting of some high
profiled crimes.
“In a renewed bid to encourage the revitalized intelligence outfit of
Delta State police command to make for a more proactive/intelligence
based policing, and altogether nip in the bud incidence of kidnapping
and violent crime, Delta State government doled out a whopping sum of
two million five hundred thousand naira to Delta State police command
for this purpose”, he stated.
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