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The invasion of an Owerri High Court by a dare-devil gang of criminals, last week, and the subsequent rescue and release of suspected hardened criminals on trial could aptly be tagged ‘ The Day of the Jackal’ from the epic thriller novel by celebrated English writer Frederick Forsyth. The auguries are hideous but intriguing.That penultimate Friday, the sanctity of the court was wantonly desecrated by a gang of gun-toting young men who stormed the premises in a commando-like manner, shooting from all fronts. At the end of the barely 30 minutes operation, two persons lay dead. Many people, including prison officials were seriously injured. The invading criminals succeeded in escaping with their booty which turned out to be the dreaded and highly prized kidnap kingpin and acclaimed serial killer, Henry Chibueze alias Vampire.
The notorious criminal, Henry, 30, from Nwangele LGA in Imo state, for long, bestrode the criminal scene in Nigeria like a colossus. In fact, his exploits and successes have continued to baffle and taunt security officials even after he was caged and kept in the cooler awaiting trial in Owerri prison. Before his arrest early 2016 by operatives of the Department of Security Services, DSS, Vampire was terrorizing both the Eastern, Southern and Western parts of the country unhindered.
He was notorious for killing his victims after collecting ransom.
The chilling bloody account of his operation in Lagos on February 16, 2013, still remains a red dot in security circles. It was a day he stormed the home of his girlfriend, Sandra Ijedinma at Igando area of Lagos with an AK47 assault rifle and opened fire on everyone present in the apartment, killing his girlfriend, her elder sister, Praise Ozor and her two children. Not satisfied, Vampire proceeded to a nearby street where one of the elder sisters to Sandra resided and killed the woman and three of her children before fleeing from the scene.
The chilling bloody account of his operation in Lagos on February 16, 2013, still remains a red dot in security circles. It was a day he stormed the home of his girlfriend, Sandra Ijedinma at Igando area of Lagos with an AK47 assault rifle and opened fire on everyone present in the apartment, killing his girlfriend, her elder sister, Praise Ozor and her two children. Not satisfied, Vampire proceeded to a nearby street where one of the elder sisters to Sandra resided and killed the woman and three of her children before fleeing from the scene.
Days after perpetrating the evil, filled with vulgar obscenities and crude hoopla of the wantonly self-obsessed ragamuffin, Vampire still continued threatening to eliminate other remaining members of the family who had no option than to re-locate to an unknown place. His grouse was simply that the girlfriend and members of her family vehemently rejected his continued relationship with Sandra after discovering his deep involvement in crime. The whereabouts of the fleeing members of Sandra’s family still remain unknown till date as efforts they made to be protected by security agencies failed.
‘Vampire’ and other inmates
However, while security agents spread their dragnets in search of the fleeing butcher in Lagos and environs, Vampire regrouped with his gang in Imo state and they coordinated several kidnappings in the South East and South- South areas of the country. At the last count, he was reputed to have kidnapped no fewer than 200 persons, killing most of his victims including the wife of a royal father in Imo state and an official of the state Environmental Transformation Commission which yielded him about N5million in ransom. It was gathered that anti-kidnapping team from police headquarters in Abuja had cause to place a huge ransom on his head after combing virtually all the nooks and crannies of the criminal hideouts in the country searching for the highly prized criminal kingpin without success.
Luck, however ran against him when he attempted to kidnap the tribunal Judges handling Election Petition in Imo state, at their lodge in Disney Hotels, along Onitsha-Owerri Road when operatives of the DSS, acting on a tip-off swooped on him. He managed to escape with bullet wounds and relocated to the house of his elder brother in Ohafia, Abia State to treat himself when men of the secret police eventually apprehended him. He was subsequently taken to court and remanded in Owerri Central Prison.
While in the prison, Vampire, unfortunately, continued with his criminal exploits unhindered. He capitalized on the porosity of security in the prisons and turned himself into the ‘Lord of the Manor’ – no thanks to gullible officials of the prisons. He reportedly converted some serving officials of the prison and formed a new gang inside while awaiting trial. One of the officials identified as Chukwuma Agim allegedly assembled a six-man gang headed by one Chiboy also known as Ezekudele and they carried out several operations in Imo state aimed at raising funds for Vampire’s freedom.
In one of the operations, they abducted a middle-aged woman and got a ransom of N5m but after the operation, operatives of the Inspector-General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team, IRT, headed by indefatigable Assistant Commissioner of Police, ACP, Abba Kyari, succeeded in rounding up five members of the gang , including the prison official various parts of Imo state.
Surprisingly, that did not deter the rot and connivance of other prison officials in Owerri as they continued to aid and abet not only Vampire but other dreaded criminals inside the prisons. Vanguard learned that the invasion of the court was planned and executed inside the prisons by new members of the gang in connivance with some officials of Owerri Central Prison.
Feelers revealed that both Vampire and other hardened criminals awaiting trial in the prison had virtually turned officials of the prison into errand boys. The prisoners are known to have free access to all communication gadgets including laptops, assorted high- wired telephones etc. In fact, it was revealed that robbery and kidnapping operations are freely planned and perfected inside the prison after which members of the gang outside would execute the operations and deliver proceeds to their gang leaders awaiting trial.
Most of the time, they have evening rendezvous inside the prison where they review their exploits in the full glare of officials of the prison officials said to be ready to do their bidding for a fee.
On the day of the attack inside Owerri High Court, sources said only five officials of the prison accompanied about 50 awaiting trial inmates to the court without handcuffs. The suspects were left under one shade inside the court instead of being locked up in the cells provided inside there. People were freely allowed to mingle with them and that was why the gangsters that earlier arrived the court in an SUV capitalized on the security lapses and struck.
Eyewitnesses said as soon as they swung into action by releasing volley of bullets in a staccato manner, one of them quickly handed over an AK47 assault rifle to their mentor, Vampire who tuned into Rambo and perfected what he knows how to do better. They all shot their way to freedom and even forced other awaiting trial inmates to join them in escaping from the scene. While the shooting raged, sources said the Commissioner of Police, Imo state; Taiwo Lakano was forced to rush to the scene with his personal aids and engaged the rampaging criminals in a fierce battle.
Unfortunately, they disappeared from the scene without trace.
From Vanguard
*Imo state security agents and Police,please find Vampire oooooh,before he begins to unleash terror again on Innocent people.
U think vampire is still in Nigeria? I just dey laugh
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DeleteSee the level of corruption in Nigeria my good God, prison officials became errand boys, he almost wiped out the whole of his gurlfrnd's family. Lord have mercy.
DeleteThe late Sandra was my sister's course mate, and the said vampire lived in my area then, I'm very very conversant with this story.....I remember how she used to buy stuffs to show off then in their school and my sister would tell me her story and we envied her then, she even comes to my mums shop to buy stuffs with cashhhhhh, even though she never knew the guy was a robber and kidnapper.
DeleteTheir wedding was for easter that year when she found out who he was, she was beaten and raped by his gang members at the guys residence at uti street, commissioner road, warri, I think he had issues with his gang and he was hiding and they looked for him to his house and met sandra, that was how she found out......long story mehn. So sad
Since 2013 and he could not be sentenced to death abi. Our system is FUCKED UP.
Our system is dead not just fucked up.
DeleteThis is what Seun Egbegbe would have done to Toyin Aimakhu. God has saved her ass.
DeleteSee me shaking. Hmmmm. What happens in 'feem'
DeleteWhy didn't they kill him immediately
Now he is loose causing more havoc
Emmmmmmm
DeleteGoons Mi, soffery nau!
If you know the late girlfriend, then you should also know she was murdered in 2015 not 2013!
@Monkey, Vampire is in Ivory Cost. He left Nigeria that same night
Fear took a Toll on me while reading this. Lord save your children. Not sure I can live in Nigeria anymore
DeleteWater don pass garri ooh... may everybody dey watchful ooh .. this guy is a blood sucking bastard
Delete@Goons Mi do you know when I read the story I kept imagining how the late gf would have been 'chopping' money not knowing that he was an armed robber and a specialised criminal. *sigh*
DeleteGoons mi, thank you. They had every evidence they needed and they kept adjourning the case. His god father must be very influencial.
DeleteOnly in Nigeria.
DeleteSome beeveesss will be dating notorious criminal without even knowing it.
Single girls please shine ur eyes
What a story. Torrr
DeleteMy dear ekaette..sandra was murdered in 2013 because she was my optometry lecturer then...it was such a big shock to we her students
DeleteThese kind of people don't deserve to even stand trial. why can't police shoot them on sight? They've killed so many innocent ppl.
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Vampire is very much in imo and still roaming around freely. Fyi, no one was injured not to talk of being killed. Heard from a reliable source that he didn't go anywhere and is being protected by the people looking for him, please don't involve police in this issue cos we are even afraid of Vampire's master in the person of Mr R O
DeleteBRB to read
ReplyDeleteImo and Aba are the most insecure places to leave in the east
ReplyDeleteUmuahia join.
Delete*live
DeleteNa wa oo God have mercy!
ReplyDeleteI cringed reading this write up, imagine the nonsense, taking criminals to court without handcuffs, just five prison officials for over 50 inmates, gosh. Definitely he'll die, but the earlier the better. All the people that one way or the other contributed to his escape will meet their water loo.
ReplyDeleteAmen ooooo. I wonder whay they didn't kill him sef.
DeleteWhy*
DeleteFor me am never going back to that state again
ReplyDeleteChai I fear humans. So this is somebody's son? When the mother gave birth to him they were happy. This is a devil and he is out there??? May God help us in this country
Delete@code, I was just thinking about that. How happy the mum must have been to have a male child. And the ones tapping from the blessing. What went wrong?
DeleteHmmmmmmmmmmm such a heartless 'amurobber'. He needs to be caught and executed immediately mehn. Our security guys should bera swing into action, taking time.
ReplyDelete#This is your world. Shape it or someone else will*
ReplyDeleteSo much dirt and rot in our security system! Imagine how one girl's wrong choice led to the loss of her family members' lives..
ReplyDeleteThis one is worse than Anenih. This is a serial killer
ReplyDeleteAnini
DeleteI am from imo state and I am not surprised at this, our people are too desperate and can do anything for money,common recharge cards they will add extra 50 naira or 20 naira to cheat, they don't practice true Christianity, hypocrites, always gossiping anf hating, see how they allowed the criminal to do what he liked and escape all because of money, this is so sad, where will Vampire be found? Only God knows, Mr President Buhari please look into this and let this hardened wicked criminal be found, I felt they had killed him, this is a big shame to the prison wardens, tufiaaaa
ReplyDeleteWell said, this is just it.
DeleteImagine the foolish and good for nothing prison Officers. They should try and look for the guy, he is so, so dangerous. And kill him codedly as soon as they see him. This animal will not see me, any of my family members and friends. Amen!
ReplyDeleteWe don't know the whole story. He may be threatening their family members and they would have no other option seeing as our own government can't even protect us.
DeleteThis one needs no second chance. He is a demon
ReplyDeleteAlot of people said Toyin Abraham's ways aren't pure thereby her association with the Yoruba National Thief but what we dont know is that,she probably didn't know the truth about what the guy was into. Just like Sandra who probably didn't know she was dating a notorious kidnapper and killer too. I really hope the police force will chanel all effort into arresting this vampire guy before he wipes out more people and cause more families pain.
ReplyDeleteWhich one is yoruba national thief again? Why didn't you refer to vampire as igbo national thief? the amount of tribalism on this blog is so disgusting, expecially from the igbos.
Delete"Yoruba national thief"chai!
DeleteThe igbo's are something else I tell you . Always the first to bring up tribalism, other tribes are better I have noticed I ain't even nigerian.
DeleteI remember that Sandra story... Choi, this guy dikwa strong o. Pls they should do something fast.
ReplyDeleteOmo Ibo ole
ReplyDeleteWait o
ReplyDeleteDon't they have his current pictures. He has been wearing this boxers since 2015 when he killed his girlfriend
😂😂😂😂😂😂
DeleteIs that what we're talking here. Off point.
DeleteI am from imo state too! The people are too desperate for sharp sharp money they nearly kidnapped my aunt who came back from US.But she was so close to one high Court judge dat they couldn't get her. She got the information on time and my aunt ran back to US and never came back. The court and judicial system in Imo state is so porous. Those who live by the gun will die by the gun tueh!
ReplyDeleteMy dear I lived in that state, it's full of fraudulent activities and lazy boys who are so desperate for money and can do anything to get it.
DeleteJesus! Lord have mercy on Nigeria.
ReplyDeleteThe question is why take him to court? This idiot should have been wasted. It's all planned.
ReplyDeleteJust like you waste of a sperm is supposed to have been wasted tey tey too na😉😐Shege!
DeleteSandy Neky, am sure you're a kidnapper. From this your comment. No wonder you were busy giving money away December period. Will notify Nigeria police ASAP
DeleteHaha. Sandy aka corpse What are you doing among the living. This year is your last. Better know that now .
DeleteImagine the fool killing a girl he loves and her family members..then imagine what he would do to strangers or his victims....nobody is above the law,so they should place a shoot on sight order on his head...everyday for the thief but just one day for the owner
ReplyDeleteWho even nick-named him vampire? Tufia
ReplyDeleteToo much collaboration from the prison officials, they should be brought to book quickly and the vampire to be found quickly. God protect us in Jesus name.
ReplyDeleteSounds like a horror film... O town is insecured... i remember the day my brother around works layout and a car overtook him and immediately they assassinated a woman inside her jeep na so bros put car for reverse and ran for his life.
ReplyDeleteThe woman way no pure sef, drug deal thgs. I remember that story
DeleteWell let d police start with d prison officials,i believe after interrogation they can trace his hideout.its just unfortunate that d system is deteriorating.chia,i weep for my nation.may God have mercy on us
ReplyDeleteThey should find and kill him immediately
ReplyDeleteHe will certainly die
ReplyDeleteChilly revelations. God in heaven. Look at the 8th paragraph:how he continued like a Lord in Manor while in prison.
ReplyDeleteObviously, his escape was stage managed. Shame to the Security System in place in IMO State.
I knew it all along, go to prison and see the big boys criminals living like Lords. In Nigeria with money anything what? Everything goes
ReplyDeleteThey should have killed this guy since nah, what are they even going to court for bikonu? That guy and his gang members are out there o! God have mercy!
ReplyDeleteWhat kind of story is this really? This vampire and his gang should have been killed instantly. Such people should never be kept. I can't believe this vampire is still alive. I've come to realize that almost all kidnaps and gangary are known by the police. You can imagine allow criminals on death row to be using phones gadgets and perfecting kidnaps. The police aids and abaits crimes period. And it's so sad and unfortunate.
ReplyDeleteThese ones saying the prison officials should be brought to book hope una never forget say na naija we dae.for bringing them to court with no handcuff simply shows it was well planned.
ReplyDeleteHis customers still need him alive.naija is dead I swear!
ReplyDeleteUgly criminals tend to be more deadly..... All the rejections and unacceptance is converted into hatred for mankind. See how ugly the guy is. I pray he his found and killed soon
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