The Nigeria Police have paraded a criminal suspect over his involvement in multifaceted criminal cases.
The suspect, Igwe Gift Okechukwu, who was paraded on Thursday, 5th January 2024 at the Force Headquarters in Abuja, is suspected to have been involved in a string of heinous crimes ranging from criminal conspiracy, organ trafficking, fraud, cybercrime, stealing, impersonation, deceit, cheating, and identity theft.
According to the Force Public Relations Officer, ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, who anchored the parade, disclosed that the crimes were reported at the Force Criminal Investigation Department by one Anita Chinwe Mathias.
TheFact Daily learns that the complainant, a POS operator with several POS branches in Owerri, encountered the suspect, who introduced himself as Dr. Henry Ovie, a neurologist newly transferred from Portharcourt to Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Owerri.
Igwe collected her number and established a close relationship with her, after which he told her that he was expecting some money and would love to access the money through her POS machine.
The suspect then sent the sum of Five Million Five Hundred Thousand Naira (N5,500,000) to her account, thus creating the false impression that the suspect has a genuine source of income.
On the 11th September, 2023 the suspect tricked her into entering a code on her POS machine which she gladly did as she had come to trust him. However, after the suspect left her place, she noticed that all the money in her POS account, amounting to twenty-one million naira (21,000,000) had been withdrawn and all efforts to reach out to the suspect proved abortive.
Upon enquiry at FMC, where the suspect claimed to be working, she was told that none of their doctors bears such a name. She therefore immediately reported the case to the Force Criminal Investigation Department Abuja, where intelligent officers swung into action to arrest the suspect.
During the course of the investigation, the officers discovered that the suspect had changed his phone number, relocated from Owerri to Lafia in Nasarawa State where he was later arrested after being tracked.
Further investigations revealed that the suspect had gone by different names such as Igwe Richard and Ovie Henry, with multiple phone numbers and emails that he used to perpetrate his heinous acts.
Investigation also unraveled that the suspectʼs identity was not documented on the National Identity Management Commission portal, neither was his information in any Nigeria Information Database.
Upon his arrest, it was discovered that the said Igwe was also involved in organ trafficking and that he has a contact in Toronto, Canada with whom he engages in the trade of human organs.
Items exhibited at the parade include household items, two bags containing clothes, a Toyota Corolla car key, and an iPhone.
