Fresh facts have emerged on how the late dismissed police corporal, alleged billionaire kidnapper, Collins Ezenwa (aka E-Money), was tricked by his gang member into police trap and killed by policemen from the Imo State Police Command. According to one of Ezenwa’s gang members, Ifeanyi Asiegbuelam, who is presently a guest in the custody of operatives of the Inspector-General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team (IRT), his late boss was deceived by another gang member, identified as Chinwedu. The treachery led to the killing of Ezenwa. It has, however, been discovered that Chinwedu had no choice than to deceive Ezenwa. Chinwedu was acting act out a script given to him by policemen, who had earlier arrested him for kidnapping.
Ezenwa, unaware that his man had been arrested, called and told that he needed some of his guns for an operation he was embarking on. The policemen, who had been monitoring Chinwedu’s phone told him what to tell Ezenwa and where to ask Ezenwa to meet him. Asiegbuelam, who said he was with Ezenwa on the day they went to collect the guns from Chiwendu, added that three gang members were killed, including Ezenwa. He said that he was fortunate to bolt into a nearby bush and ran like the hounds of hell were after him. Recollecting how Ezenwa was killed, Asiegbuelam said: “One month after we kidnapped a man in a Toyota Highlander vehicle, E-money came to my house in Ikeduru with two of our gang members, PA and De- Don. He told us that he has an operation, but he didn’t tell us who the target was.
“He called Chinwedu, to bring his AK-47 rifles. We didn’t know that Chinwedu had been arrested and was in the custody of Imo State Police Command Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS). While we were calling Chinwedu, the Police made him to tell Ezenwa, De-Don, PA and I to meet him at a location where we could collect the rifle and proceed for the operation. “But when we got there, E-money sensed danger, stopped his SUV and started running. De-Don and PA joined him, heading to the same direction.
The Police chased and gunned them down. I escaped into a nearby bush.” Asiegbuelam would later be arrested for another crime, in an operation with another gang. It was while he was in the detention that he heard how rich Ezenwa was. He became embittered.
He said: “It was after my last arrest that I realised that Emoney had made so much money from our business, but he left me a poor man, always begging for money.” Asiegbuelam, 32, is part of Ezenwa’s gang and he confessed that they had operated in Imo and Abia states, abducting several rich persons. Asiegbuelam, who was arrested recently by policemen in Cross Rivers State, was handed over to operatives of the IRT for further investigations. The suspect said he and Ezenwa had been friends for five years before the deceased enlisted into the Nigerian Police. He added that they were both motorcycle operators in Owerri, Imo State. Asiegbuelam, a primary school dropout, is from Atah Town in Ikeduru Local Government Area of Imo State.
Source: New Telegraph
