The Nigeria Police Force (NPF), on Friday paraded a commercial driver identified as Itoro Clement as a suspected responsible for the death of a Vanguard Journalist, Tordue Salem.
The 29-year-old suspect was arrested following an investigation carried out by the Intelligence Response Team (IRT), the Force Public Relations Officer, Frank Mba confirmed.
Mba disclosed that the IRT began an investigation after Tordue went missing with the discovery of his his phone found at Good Friends Garden, Mpape in Abuja.
He added that during the investigation, Clement who owns a 2004 Model Camry with number plate BWR 243 BK confessed to have hit Tordue at about 10:00 pm on 13th October 2021, around Mabushi area located in Abuja.
“When Clement hit Tordue, the victim’s phone, an iPhone fell on the car’s wheel screen. The suspect however disposed of the phone at Good Friends Garden where he usually parked his car. But the phone was picked by some boys working in the garden and some parts of the phone were sold by the boys,” Mba said.
While speaking to journalists during the parade, Clement admitted to have knocked off an unknown pedestrian at about 10:00 pm the same day Tordue Salem went missing.
The suspect added that he failed to stop to attend to his victim because he was afraid he could get attacked by armed robbers.
In his words, “I thought it was an armed robber that I knocked down until the following day when I saw a smashed phone on my windscreen. The phone was not working again so I threw it away.
“The place I knocked this person down, is a criminal place everybody knows that place.”
Mba also assured that the Police will get to the root of the matter adding all perpetrators in the murder will face the wrath of the law.
