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One for the road as outgoing CP Disu sends ‘Boy Satan’ to hell

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By Ignatius Chukwu & Blessing Itah

The hard-fighting Commissioner of Police in Rivers State, Olatunji Disu, has recorded daring success as if to say ‘goodbye’ to Rivers people. His command has killed a suspected bandit and terrorists with nickname, ‘Boy Satan’, who specialized in killing both friends and foes, in raping, car-snatching, etc, in selected areas of Port Harcourt.

The police officer who saw to the killing of 2Baba of Onelga zone (David Gift Okpara) who had made international headlines by killing a crack crime commander, SP Bako Angbashim, to win a N100m booty from Goc Sim Fubara, seems to have marked his departure with another heroic stride in crimefighting.

Details of the killing of a high profile suspect:

On September 17, 2024, the day the departure of the CP was making the rounds in the grapevine, the Police Command said it has prevailed over a five-man gang allegddly responsible for car snatching and burglary in the Ada-George, Iwofe and Ogbogoro areas of Port Harcourt. Other locations of their operation are Egbelu, Diobu, D-line, GRA II and Borikiri. The gang has been responsible for snatching, at gunpoint, over 10 cars in the past three months and has been terrorising Rivers State residents seeking to enjoy the comforts and thrills of nightlife in the GRA II axis of Port Harcourt.

According to the police, the gang was led by a recidivist (convicted offender who repeats it often), one Chukwumela Imela (aka Boy Satan), who had been to prison on four occasions for various crimes, ranging from cultism to raping and armed robbery.
How he killed his childhood friend just to prove a point:
Together with his childhood friend and companion, Precious Adiele (who he allegedly later shot dead to prove he is a man), he joined the Iceland cult group in 2009. He is famed for being merciless in killing both rivals and allies, thus earning him the moniker ‘Boy Satan’.

In 2022, the report went on, he disagreed with the Iceland cult group over loot-sharing from a robbery and angrily moved to join a rival group, ‘La Mendians Bobos’. To celebrate his defection, he decided to make a bold statement by accosting his friend, Precious Adiele, and macheting him to death in his residence. After killing his friend, he boasted that he was not afraid to hurt even his family to prove a point.

In 2012, he attacked a businessman named George, who was on his way to attend a church vigil and demanded his phone. The man handed his phone to him and on seeing the phone he got enraged that it was not an Android phone and proceeded to give machete cuts to him. George was rescued by a member of the local vigilante in Diobu, one Aniefiok David who fought him off and took the injured victim for treatment. This act of the vigilante offended Boy Satan, and he earmarked Aniefiok David for death.
Battle with vigilante strongman:
He began trailing the 39-year-old vigilante who worked as a sachet water distributor. On a particular night, a few weeks after the incident with George, at Ojoto Round-about in Diobu, he waylaid Aniefiok and shot him in the chest with a locally-made pistol. Aniefiok swung his machete as he took the shot and hacked off Boy Satan’s left hand at the wrist. They were both taken to the Rivers State University Teaching Hospital (formerly Braithwaite Memorial Hospital) where Boy Satan was arrested by the Police and charged to court. That marked his first imprisonment.

He returned from Prison and continued his criminal activities which led him to be incarcerated three more times before he was eventually neutralized by the Rivers State Police Command.

How he came under star Police radar:
His gang came under the full glare of the Rivers State Police Command after they robbed one Mr Timothy Musa, 42, of his Toyota Camry on the night of April 17, 2024, and used the same car to loot shops and houses around the Agip-Ada-George areas of Port Harcourt before selling the vehicle to one of their receivers-an Alhaji still at large.

On another night, on the 5th of June 2024, the gang struck again, snatching another Toyota Camry and diverting the car and its owner to a location in Timber, Diobu. There, the car owner was robbed of his personal belongings, shot and left for dead whilst they whisked the car away. The victim was taken to the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital where he eventually succumbed to his injuries.

The waterloo:

The Police who had been on the heels of the criminal gang got credible intelligence that they were about to carry out another operation at Diobu using a Keke-bus (minivan) on the 8th of June 2024. Men of the Octopus strike force of the Command immediately mobilised to the area and aided by the Diobu vigilante, came upon the criminals at Okonkwo Street in Diobu.

On sighting the Police, the gang began shooting at the Police. Boy Satan and other gang members fled the scene after being overpowered by the superior firepower of the Police however, the gang’s driver, Junior Moses Eyimode, was arrested, and the minivan was recovered by the Police.

The Police gave hot pursuit to the fleeing gang members and caught up with them in one of their numerous hideouts in New Road, Borikiri where they fired more shots at the Police in a bid to escape. In the gun battle, the notorious ‘Boy Satan’ and another member of his gang were neutralised and one Beretta pistol and two locally made revolvers were recovered.

The Police have so far recovered 2 more cars from the gang as investigations continue in a bid to mop up other stolen vehicles and round up fleeing gang members.

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