Police operatives in Anambra State have arrested a suspected notorious armed robber linked to the high-profile murder of a state lawmaker, Hon. Azuka Justice.
Justice, a member of the Anambra State House of Assembly, was abducted and subsequently murdered on December 24, 2024. The lawmaker’s gruesome death shocked the state and drew widespread condemnation.
Disclosing the suspect’s arrest in a statement on Wednesday, spokesman of the Anambra State Police Command, Ikenga Tochukwu, said operatives of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS), Awkuzu, nabbed 26-year-old Ugochukwu Uzor, during a coordinated offensive operation in Iyowa Odekpe, Ogbaru Local Government Area, on December 8.
Tochukwu said police operatives engaged Uzor in a fierce confrontation before he was subdued and taken into custody.
One locally made Beretta pistol and eleven rounds of live ammunition were recovered during the operation.