{"id":125009,"date":"2019-06-09T20:22:52","date_gmt":"2019-06-09T19:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=125009"},"modified":"2019-06-09T20:26:06","modified_gmt":"2019-06-09T19:26:06","slug":"police-arrest-two-over-alleged-murder-in-enugu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=125009","title":{"rendered":"Police arrest two over alleged murder in Enugu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Police-arrest-23-over-alleged-armed-robbery-kidnapping-cultism-in-Nasrawa.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The Police Command in Enugu State says it has arrested two suspects in connection with the alleged murder of a man in Agbani area of the state.<\/p>\n<p>The command\u2019s Public Relations Officer, SP Ebere Amaraizu, said, in a statement on Sunday in Enugu, that the incident occurred on Wednesday at Amurri junction in Agbani in Nkanu West Local Government Area.<\/p>\n<p>Amaraizu said that the suspects were arrested through intelligence gathering.<\/p>\n<p>He gave the names of the suspects as: Elochukwu Eze, 21, from Ishiokwe Agbani and Michael Ani, 22, of Mbogodo Agbani community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was gathered that the deceased was found lying in a pool of blood at Amurri junction, and closer observation revealed matchete cuts on his head.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was rushed to a hospital for medical attention, where he was confirmed dead and corpse deposited at Agbani District Hospital mortuary for post mortem,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n<p>Amaraizu added that the Commissioner of Police, Mr Suleiman Balarabe, had directed prompt action and full scale investigation into the incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe suspects are now helping police operatives of the command in their investigations on the matter,\u2019\u2019 he said.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Police Command in Enugu State says it has arrested two suspects in connection with the alleged murder of a man in Agbani area of the state. The command\u2019s Public Relations Officer, SP Ebere Amaraizu, said, in a statement on Sunday in Enugu, that the incident occurred on Wednesday at Amurri junction in Agbani in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":105646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3773,1,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-more","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/105646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}