Abia State Police Command has said it arrested the suspected killer of a final-year undergraduate student of the Abia State University, Uturu.
The State Police Command Public Relations Officer, Maureen Chinaka, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday.
The victim, Emmanuel Uche, went missing in March after some cult-related clashes in students’ residential quarters in the area.
A viral video clip later showed when the victim was being killed by a group of suspected cultists in a lodge outside the university premises.
In the clip, the victim attempted to escape as he crawled through an untarred road. He would later stand up and try to flee, but was shot dead by one of the attackers who caught up with him.
Commenting on the incident, the police spokespsrson said the command observed that the viral clip, which showed the victim being killed by the hoodlums, surfaced on 11 March.
She noted that the victim was murdered in front of a lodge known as Miracle Lodge in Uturu, a community in the local Government Area of the state.
Chinaka said the suspect was arrested at Uturu in Isuikwuato Council Area of the state at about 11:00 a.m. on Thursday by police detectives from Abia State Police Command in response to a tip-off.
She said the suspect was spotted in the viral video clip murdering the victim.
“On 11/3/2024, a viral video surfaced depicting the murder of Emmanuel Uche, a 500-level student of Abia State University, in front of Miracle Lodge, Uturu.
“Acting on credible intelligence, today 18/4/2024, at about 1100hrs, a team of police detectives from Abia State Police Command apprehended the principal suspect at Isiukwuato who was captured in the viral video committing the murder of Emmanuel Uche at Miracle Lodge, Abia State University, Uturu.”
“The suspect, identified as Emmanuel Victor, has confessed to the crime. He is currently in lawful custody and will be charged to court,” the statement read.
