Written by Isa Sa’idu, Kaduna
Friday, 26 October 2012 05:00
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The Kaduna State Command’s Public Relations Officer, DSP Aminu Lawal, had confirmed the arrest to Daily Trust yesterday, saying that the suspect is now being interrogated at the police state headquarters.

“A complainant came to report to us that somebody has threatened him. He said the person has directed him to pay certain amount of money or he will be killed. Having received that information, we went in and napped the suspect at the point of collecting the money.

“Investigation is ongoing and this would help us to get more information on the activities of the suspect,” DSP Lawal said.

However, a source that is close to the suspect, who craved for anonymity, told Daily Trust that Owunna was arrested on Tuesday by the police following a tipoff. The source said Owunna was arrested at a joint in Zaria when he went to collect the ransom he demanded.

The source said luck ran out of Owunna when he called one Samuel, an Igbo man, of Sabon Gari, Zaria on phone and told him that his name was Ibrahim.

“The suspect told Samuel that his name is on the list of Igbos to be killed in Zaria, saying that ‘for your gesture to me when I was young, I will not execute the mission. For that reason, I want you to pay N50, 000 only to stay alive’ the suspect told Samuel on phone,” the source said.

The source further explained that Owunna had told Samuel that his gang was behind the killing of Dr Ago, a medical doctor at Zaria Railways Hospital, who was killed along two others in Zaria last month.


“Having heard that the suspect’s name was Ibrahim, Samuel became apprehensive, thinking that it was Boko Haram. What came to Samuel’s mind was that Boko Haram are after him. Our belief here in Zaria is that all the assassinations that took place in Zaria were done by the Boko Haram. This was why Samuel went to report to police and they were lucky to have apprehended the man when he came for the money he demanded,” our source said.

It would be recalled that Zaria had of late became notorious for killing of innocent people where members of the Boko Haram are always blamed for the act.

Just last month three people, including the Medical Director of Railways Hospital, Zaria, were killed at a beer parlour in Sabon Gari, Zaria. Before that, a Zaria businessman and a mobile policeman were also killed in the same month.

The frequent killings led to the restriction of movement of motorbikes to 9pm. Also, that made Igbo communities in Kaduna and Zaria to down tool for some days by locking their shops.



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Oya! Where are the tribal war lords?Here is another thread to fan your fancy.......@OP.It is really pathetic,for one to degenerate into a conscience less being over a pantry sum.

source pls

Awake9ja: source pls

u blind?

Sharpest badt guys.
Odikwa serious business

ifee-gee:
Oya! Where are the tribal war lords,here is another thread to fan your fancy.......@OP.It is really pathetic,for one to degenerate into a conscience less being over a pantry sum.

my sister biko o,tek am easy abegiii

[font=Lucida Sans Unicode][/font][b][/b] Am not too surpriced about this, have always believed some of thhis killings are by Igbos hustling for money.
Quite ubfortunate though .

What a boring and cold saturday! "Yawns and walks sluggishly to bed"

Signs of endtime.repent frm ur sins my ppl

Only a capital fuuull will believe this crap.

Ibhoes are their own enemy in Naija.

I said sth about ibhoes being behind boko haram a few months ago. O ma se!

How can one kill his own people?

OkwaIfugo Aka Olu Jehova

Poverty see wetin u dey cause

I think is high time we igbos start cautioning each other, why do we have more horrible news coming from our ppl?

I strongly suspect the dude was just boasting and trying to scare his last victim when he claimed responsibility for previous assassination of the medical doctor and the rest.
I feel he was trying to catch in on the crisis in the north and landed himself in serious wahala.
He would be tried for murder including that of a mopol officer!
RIP to this fool.

I have always said it that 90% of Boko Haram sects are igbos and christians. God is vindicating us the Muslims. More truth will come out. Insha Allah

*Ileke-IdI:
Ibhoes are their own enemy in Naija.

I said sth about ibhoes being behind boko haram a few months ago. O ma se!

gbadexy: I strongly suspect the dude was just boasting and trying to scare his last victim when he claimed responsibility for previous assassination of the medical doctor and the rest.
I feel he was trying to catch in on the crisis in the north and landed himself in serious wahala.
He would be tried for murder including that of a mopol officer!
RIP to this fool.

Nice theory.........Oya pack well

I have said it b4 igbo man can do anything 2 enrich himself, am nt surprise @ all.

franchizy: I have always said it that 90% of Boko Haram sects are igbos and christians. God is vindicating us the Muslims. More truth will come out. Insha Allah

can't stop laffn. Vindicate ko, vindicate ni.

*Ileke-IdI:
Ibhoes are their own enemy in Naija.

I said sth about ibhoes being behind boko haram a few months ago. O ma se!

Which Boko haram would demand for fifty thousand naira and stay put to be arrested? The boy is a desperate criminal and should receive appropriate punishment for his crime.

gbadexy: I strongly suspect the dude was just boasting and trying to scare his last victim when he claimed responsibility for previous assassination of the medical doctor and the rest.
I feel he was trying to catch in on the crisis in the north and landed himself in serious wahala.
He would be tried for murder including that of a mopol officer!
RIP to this fool.

Are you trying to defend him or what How many ibo's has been caught in arm smuggling to northern state..for you information it was that blew him and his families off when trying to set up bomb in Federal Low Cost in Borno state...am not surprise why Nigerian Government did'nt give them chance to rule Nigeria

franchizy: I have always said it that 90% of Boko Haram sects are igbos and christians. God is vindicating us the Muslims. More truth will come out. Insha Allah

See ya mouth like vindicate.
So because one "sharp" guy is seeing opportunity in the chos you created in the North all the Igbos and Christians are now boko-haram

just imagine how you reason! Nama

bowee4u: I think is high time we igbos start cautioning each other, why do we have more horrible news coming from our ppl?

Onye a abughi onye igbo!

Biko gbachinuya nkiti

Ndi iberibe

the love for money is d root of all evil...imagine a boko haram imposter huntin is own p'ple

ifee-gee:
Oya! Where are the tribal war lords,here is another thread to fan your fancy.......@OP.It is really pathetic,for one to degenerate into a conscience less being over a pantry sum.

Extreme case of poor construction and application of good grammatical lexicon by this fellow.

kabba7: [font=Lucida Sans Unicode][/font][b][/b] Am not too surpriced about this, have always believed some of thhis killings are by Igbos hustling for money.
Quite ubfortunate though .

Another incoherent write-up!

tchaik:



Onye a abughi onye igbo!

Biko gbachinuya nkiti

Ndi iberibe

Nwannem hapu ya, odika nkita tuwara mama ime tupu a mua ya

Now how is this news front page worthy,if not to cause disaffection and drive traffic for the owners of nairaland.No one is denying the fact that this crime actually happened,it did happen,but the motive behind putting this on the front page is pretty obvious to the discerning mind and the strategy seems to be working,but for how long?.Sometimes one gets to wonder whether nairaland is meant to unite us a nation or divide us by inciting and pitting one ethnic group against the other . I want to believe the owner of nairaland wants a "fatwa" declared on him before he realises that he is not getting his priorities right.And maybe he would create an "igbo for igbos" section as a face saving measure like he did for muslims.

If you are lacking "quality" and newsworthy items,I can help out. For your information,am planning to rob the CBN and am Igbo by the way,I hope this makes the front page too.