The Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (FSARS) has arrested
nine persons, including a native doctor in connection with the killing of a
staff of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). The Deputy Commissioner of Police FSARS, Mr Chris Ezike,
confirmed the arrest while speaking with a correspondent of the News Agency of
Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos yesterday.
Ezike, who is of the Adeniji-Adele Police Station, said that
the suspects committed the crime on Sept. 23, 2012. He gave the name of the NNPC staff as Mr Sylvester Emefiele,
who worked with NNPC’s Transformation Office in Abuja. Continue after the cut...
The commissioner said that the wife of the victim, Ngozi,
had petitioned the Inspector-General of police in September, 2012 over the
disappearance of her husband after leaving Lagos for Abuja.
Ezike said that the woman revealed that her husband left
Lagos for Abuja on the invitation of his boss to process his visa for a
training programme in Hungary.
“She claimed her husband sent her SMS on Sept. 23, 2012 at
about 8.37 p.m that he was at Gwagwalada and that was the last she heard from
him.
“She also stated that surprisingly, she noticed that
withdrawals were being made from her husband’s accounts through ATM,’’ he said.
