BY ONYEKACHUKWU IBEZIM – The Anambra State Police Command on Friday confirmed arresting nine suspects allegedly involved in the murder of the member representing Onitsha North 1 Constituency in the State House of Assembly, Hon Justice Azuka.
Kidnapped on December 24, 2024, along Ugwunaobankpa road in Inland Town, Onitsha, while returning home for Christmas, the lawmaker’s decomposing body was found by the roadside at the Second Niger Bridge, in the early hours of Thursday, February 6, 2025.
Speaking on the arrest of suspects in a press statement issued on Friday, the Commissioner of Police in Anambra, Nnaghe Itam, said the joint security team on a mission to rescue the abducted lawmaker discovered his lifeless body abandoned at the spot.
Itam said on the same day his corpse was found, the Command’s personnel, in a joint operation with the Anambra State Vigilante operatives, acting on intelligence-led information arrested nine suspects allegedly actively involved in the incident.
According to him, one of the suspects sustained an injury in the leg during a gun duel with the police operatives.
The Police Commissioner listed the arrested suspects as: Ugochukwu Onuorah (30), Ikemefuna Ossai (20), Ikenna Orugu (27), Chibuike Obiefuna (19), and Chinonso Olisa (19).
Others include Chinedu Okoli (21), David Ojini (25) and Peter Sunday (20) who has a bold tattoo inscription of “No peace 4 d Government” on his chest.
