Afrigather The Olatunji Disu-led Rivers state police command, in collaboration with operatives of the Intelligence Response Workforce and the Delta State Police Command, has killed a infamous executioner-general of the Iceland cult group for finishing up serial murders of group leaders in Mgbuoshimini, in Obio-Akpo, Rivers State.
The suspected killer, kidnapper, and armed robber recognized as Peter “Daddy” Chukwu was rounded up at about 5 am on April 5 in Asaba, Delta State, and shot by the operatives when he made frantic efforts to flee.
The Commissioner of Police, Olatunji Disu, mentioned Peter ‘Daddy’ Chukwu, a.ok.a Oboni, a local of Omoku in Rivers State, was a infamous gangster, whose prison enterprise was multi-faceted, bordering on cultism, kidnapping, homicide, and assassination, amongst different crimes.
The commissioner mentioned Peter rose to prominence in 2017 when he was made the executioner-general of the Iceland cult group within the Mgbuoshimini group of Rivers State.
He mentioned: “This function was conferred on him by the ill-famed cultist and kidnap kingpin, Johnson Igwedibia, popularly generally known as ‘Don Waney’, to whom he was a fierce loyalist.
“Johnson Igwedibia famously acknowledged as Don Waney, was a infamous cult determine who instilled concern in Rivers State. His demise got here by the hands of a collaborative mission involving the Nigerian Military and the State Safety Service in 2018, on the border between Rivers and Imo States”.
On the mode of operation of Peter, he mentioned: “Peter Chukwu constructed a base of operation in Mgbuoshimini, a suburb in Obio/Akpor Native Authorities Space in Rivers State, from the place he recruited a military of younger males who carried out his whims to the letter.
“With an enormous following of cultists behind him, he launched a syndicate that served as assassins for rent, armed robbers, and gun runners.
“He all the time had a success record that included individuals who had offended or challenged him, these he thought-about a risk, and people he had been paid to assassinate. Such was the character of his villainous thoughts that on the mentioning of his title, individuals trembled.”
On why Peter was declared wished, he mentioned: “As his acclaim grew, he turned a menacing presence locally and commenced wreaking havoc indiscriminately.
“On Could 6, 2017, he murdered the secretary of the Rumueme Council of Chiefs, Chief Minikwu Chukwu, and one Jaja Optimist whereas they had been gathering for a routine city assembly. Throughout the similar month, he executed one other group chief, Chief Mgbor.
“He continued his onslaught on these he had earmarked for destruction, and on July 30, 2017, Baridule Cletus Dunle was shot lifeless, whereas on October 4, 2017, Godspower Aligbo and Dickson Gogo-Jaja had their lives snuffed out by his males.
“On October 9, 2017, at about 3 am, he and his gang attacked the abattoir space of the Mgbuoshimini group and murdered 22 individuals in chilly blood, burning a few of their victims alive.
“This act brought on the Police to declare him, and eight (8) others wished. Consequently, he fled the group and went into hiding. He, nonetheless, resurfaced in 2023 and commenced one other reign of terror. He arrange one other base in Mgbuoshimini as his earlier base had been demolished after the crises that adopted the bloodbath he perpetrated in 2017.
“On his return, he arrogated himself the place of chief adjudicator locally and would often pressure individuals with disputes to look earlier than him. On one such event on January 2, 2023, he seized two residents of the group, Sunny Amadi and Victor Alabo, who he alleged had stolen telephones. They had been promptly introduced earlier than him, and subjected to torture by way of binding and extreme beatings. He then proceeded to make use of a razor to cut off their ears”.
The commissioner mentioned two days after the mutilation of the 2 males, on January 4, 2023, he invited Grace Asuquo to look earlier than him as a result of he had obtained studies that she had stolen a telephone.
He mentioned: “She didn’t honour his invitation for concern of his irrationality, which offended him. He commanded his boys to arrest her and convey her earlier than him. When she was introduced earlier than him, he tortured her for a very long time, ultimately murdering her. He dumped her lifeless physique in entrance of her father’s compound.
“Peter ‘Daddy’ Chukwu was additionally complicit in assassinations for rent. His gang was contracted to assassinate one Victor Golor, and in two makes an attempt on December 12, 2023, and January 6, 2024, they didn’t exterminate the goal.
“Nevertheless, on the sixth of March 2024, they succeeded in detonating explosives on the goal’s resort after putting in a digital Apple tracker in his Toyota Hilux truck. Such was his sophistication that he had a community of informants at his beck and name and used monitoring gadgets to tail potential victims”.
Disu mentioned Peter turned an merchandise of deep curiosity to him when, on the thirteenth of January, he and his murderous band shot and killed the Neighborhood Growth Council (CDC) Chairman of Mgbuoshimini, Ndidi Livingstone, as he was stepping out of the auditorium of Peculiar Religion Ministries, Rumueme after a church service.
He mentioned: “After the dastardly act, they sped off in a ready black SUV which the police have now recovered. The infamous gangster killed the CDC chairman as a result of he collaborated with different stakeholders in establishing an area vigilante group generally known as OSPAC, geared toward safeguarding the group.
“Throughout a go to to the widow and household of the slain group chief, the Commissioner of Police, Rivers State, CP Olatunji Rilwan Disu, directed a nationwide manhunt for the killers.
“Thus, an intensive seek for them started. The manhunt narrowed when investigations and intelligence revealed that Peter ‘Daddy’ Chukwu was the mastermind behind the killings.
“After studying of the placement of his hideout, on March 16, 2024, at about 1 a.m., operatives of a particular process pressure of the Rivers State Police Command, comprising of the Intelligence Response Workforce (IRT) and operatives of the state command, tried to arrest him.
“The suspect narrowly escaped by bursting by way of the ceiling and roofing sheets of the resort, the place he was cornered. He later jumped into a close-by compound and ran off, evading arrest.
“In his scramble to flee, he left behind his private results, together with a success record containing names of his subsequent victims and different important paperwork and devices that gave the Police a transparent image of the extent of sophistication he operated with. This necessitated the urgency in arresting the infamous prison”.
Disu mentioned following his shut shave with the authorities, Peter fled to Asaba in Delta State and remained in hiding earlier than returning briefly to Port Harcourt, the place he boasted about his invincibility and the facility of his charms.
However the police boss mentioned: “He returned to Delta, the place he started plotting to kill the investigating cops and to launch assaults on police amenities to free his arrested associates.
“Undeterred by the infamous gangster’s preliminary escape, on April 5, 2024, round 4 am, a coordinated staff launched an assault on his hideout. The staff, comprising the Rivers State Command Tactical Workforce and the Intelligence Response Workforce (IRT), superior to Delta to find the prison’s hideout.
“With help from the Delta State Commissioner of Police, operatives from the command joined the conclusive operation, ensuing within the neutralisation of the suspect following a fierce operation.
“He was tracked down and apprehended in Ibusa, Delta State, and located in a herbalist’s house the place he sought religious fortification. Upon realising the presence of safety forces surrounding the premises, Peter Daddy Chukwu fiercely resisted and tried to flee. He put up a fierce resistance, and in an try to flee, he was fatally wounded and succumbed to the damage earlier than arriving on the hospital. Efforts are at the moment in high gear to arrest all his associates and sponsors.”
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