{"id":93033,"date":"2025-02-19T11:46:43","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T11:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=93033"},"modified":"2025-02-19T11:46:43","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T11:46:43","slug":"story-for-the-gods-suspects-in-killing-of-anambra-lawmaker-escape-from-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=93033","title":{"rendered":"Story for the gods&#8230; suspects in killing of Anambra lawmaker escape from Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">When the story began to fly in the air on Tuesday, many Anambra State residents described it as a story for the gods &#8211; a regular expression for a lie in Nigeria.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">However, in a bizzare twist of events, the Anambra State Police Command has confirmed that two of the men involved in the abduction, gruesome murder, and dumping of the body of a state lawmaker, Hon. Justice Azuka, have vanished from its hands.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">Anambra Police spokesperson, Superintendent Tochukwu Ikenga, who announced, after tongues began wagging on the alleged escape of the suspects, said in a statement on Tuesday night, said<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\"> the escape happened when police operatives took the two suspects on an operation to apprehend a receiver of stolen vehicles linked to the criminal gang.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">After the receiver of the stolen vehicles was apprehended, the two suspects suspects fled the scene.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">Recall that gunmen had, on Christmas eve of last year, abducted Justice Azuka, the lawmaker representing Onitsha 1 Constituency in State House of Assembly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">His decomposing body was found six weeks later following an intense search by a joint security team on February 6 at the Second Niger Bridge in Onitsha.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">Police subsequently arrested nine suspects in connection with the murder.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">Ikenga&#8217;s statement said that the Commissioner of Police, CP Ikioye Orutugu, has deployed human, operational, and intelligence assets in manhunt for the suspects.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">He said they would be re-arrested and justice would be served in accordance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">The police commissioner assured the public that it was intensifying efforts to locate and re-arrest the suspects.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">He also emphasized that any officers found responsible for the suspects\u2019 escape would face disciplinary action.<\/span><!--\/data\/user\/0\/com.samsung.android.app.notes\/files\/clipdata\/clipdata_bodytext_250219_123623_854.sdocx--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the story began to fly in the air on Tuesday, many Anambra State residents described it as a story for the gods &#8211; a regular expression for a lie in Nigeria. However, in a bizzare twist of events, the Anambra State Police Command has confirmed that two of the men involved in the abduction, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":93034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5807,7],"tags":[71,3976,1668],"class_list":["post-93033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-crime-and-violence","category-news","tag-anambra","tag-escape","tag-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/93034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}