The Delta State Police command has arrested a serial killer and prison escapee in the state.
The suspect, one Micheal Ezenwai, was said to have escaped from the Oko correctional centre during the EndSARS 2020 jailbreak.
He was arrested at the point of selling a stolen phone after killing the owner, 26-year-old Christabel Egedefe, in Agbor, Ika South Local Government Area.
The statement by Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), SP Bright Edafe, said: “Preliminary investigation later revealed that the suspect is a serial murderer and was part of the syndicate that raped and murdered Uwaila Omorzua, a 200-level student of the University of Benin (UNIBEN), who was murdered in the church when she went to study in 2020.
“On October 24, 2025, the DPO Agbor received a complaint that one Michael Ezenwai was trying to sell a suspected stolen phone. The DPO swiftly mobilised operatives to the scene and immediately arrested the suspect.
‘’Upon interrogation, the suspect claimed that he brought the phone from Libya. Later that same day, the phone rang, and the caller said that the phone belonged to her sister, Christabel Egedefe.”
The PPRO said: “With the strength of this information, the DPO and his team proceeded to the house of the said Christabel and discovered her dead in her apartment. At that point, the suspect confessed to the murder of the victim, Christabel Egedefe, aged 26, and initially lied that the father of the deceased had asked him to do it.
“Upon further interrogation and after six days of the father being in detention, the suspect changed his statement, stating that he was only trying to indict the father of the victim. He then stated that he went on a robbery operation at her house on October 23, 2025, and murdered her when she refused to let go of her motorcycle keys and also made away with her mobile phones.”
“Preliminary investigation later revealed that the suspect is a serial murderer and was part of the syndicate that raped and murdered Uwaila Omorzua, a 200-level student of UNIBEN, who was murdered in the church when she went to study in 2020.”
