Police Arrests Four In Anambra For Setting Woman Ablaze In A Wheelchair

The Anambra State Police operatives serving at Abagana Divisional Police Headquarters, Sunday, arrested four suspects, including one Chinenye Ekwenugo, 21, from Ifitedunu, over the burning of a 74-year-old woman in a wheelchair at Abagana.

The three other suspects are Uzochukwu Okeke, 47; Fidel Anayo, 60, and Ikenna Anene, 54, all male and from Abagana.

The operatives also recovered the burnt remains of the deceased, the wheelchair, and a casket.

The state Police Public Relations Officer, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, in a release, stated that

“During interrogations, the suspect, Chinenye, confessed that her boyfriend, one Ifeanyi Igwe, who is currently at large, and three others set the victim ablaze and got a casket to bury her before the intervention of the security operatives.”

Ikenga said the remains of the deceased had been deposited in the morgue for autopsy and further probe of the cause of death.

Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, CP Nnaghe Obono Itam, had sued for calm and ordered the immediate transfer of the case to the Homicide Section of the State Criminal Investigation Department of the command for a comprehensive investigation.

Cc: Whistler.