THIRTEEN days
after the deadly attack that left four police personnel dead, the
Commissioner of Police, Edo State Command, Muhammed Dan Mallam
yesterday said the operatives of his command have arrested 13
suspects in connection with the killing of DPO and three other
officers in Afuze police station in Owan East local government area.
He disclosed this
in while parading a total of 120 suspects arrested for various crimes
ranging from kidnapping, cultism, armed robbery, and murder.
Damallam when
asked to give much information about their arrest, said such details
cannot be given at the moment until those who are at large are
brought to book.
"On the 12 of
March 2019, where some unknown criminals, cowards who went to hide
under cover of darkness, attacked Afuze Police station killed the
DPO and three others.
"If you
recalled my press conference with the executive governor of Edo
State, Governor Obaseki, I promised the public that we will do
everything with the ambit of the law to detect and apprehend the
criminals.
"We succeeded
in the sense that we have 13 suspects under our custody.
"The reason i
do not want to parade them, they are so well making useful
information and I do not want anything that we jeopardize our
investigations but we made the arrest and they have confessed to have
participated in the operation where they killed the DPO and the three
others", he said.
Also among the 120
suspects paraded by the police was an army deserter identified as
Private Mbawa Lucky who was paraded for cultism.
Besides, the
General Overseer of Gloryland Church, Pastor Ekene Samuel was also
paraded have been arrested for impregnating and procuring an abortion
for a teenage member of his church identified as Miracle.
Police said, Pastor
Ekene charmed and had sex with 17 years old Miracle in December 2018.
Pastor Ekene was
arrested after one Henry Aikhuaman reported that Miracle was missing.
It was gathered
that Miracle was later found on a sick bed at Graceville Medical
Centre along Ewah Road in Bénin City.
Doctors at the
hospital were said to have told police interrogators that Miracle was
brought in by one Happy Johnson, a deaconess in Pastor Ekene’s
Church.
Speaking to
newsmen at the police headquarters, Happy said it was Pastor Ekene
that told her to procure the abortion for Miracle.
Pastor Ekene who
did not deny the allegation described Miracle as one of his daughters
in his church.
“Last year I had
an extramarital affair with her in August. She came to me this year
that she was pregnant. I asked my member here to take her to the
hospital. She was taking some drugs to remove the pregnancy. The baby
died in her womb. The doctors did surgery on her because she was
having appendicitis. The hospital asked me to pay N380,000 and I have
paid N150,000 before I was arrested. She did not die.
“These charms
were items returned by people I prayed for through deliverance. Some
are also for me. I also do spiritual work. I have anti-poison and
others.”
Dan Mallam, said
the pastor and his accomplice would soon be charged to court.
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