The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Lagos State Command, has handed over a notorious crime suspect, Obi Levi Obieze, to the Lagos State Police Command for further investigation.
This was confirmed by the Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, CSP Benjamin Hundeyin, in a statement posted on X (formerly Twitter) on Friday, May 30.
“ONGOING: @nigimmigration, Lagos State Command hands over wanted suspect, Obi Levi Obieze, to @LagosPoliceNG at the Police Command Headquarters, Ikeja,” Hundeyin wrote.
Obieze, who also goes by the alias Levi Obu Onyeka, was arrested on May 29, 2025, by NIS operatives at the Gbaji checkpoint along the Badagry-Seme Road while attempting to escape the country on a motorcycle.
According to the NIS, the arrest followed credible intelligence linking him to kidnapping and ritual killings in Isiagu community, Enugu State.
The Comptroller General of Immigration, Kemi Nandap, confirmed the arrest in a statement released by the Service Public Relations Officer, ACI AS Akinlabi.
“The suspect is a male individual wanted by the Nigeria Police Enugu State Command for alleged involvement in abduction, kidnapping, and ritual killing,” the statement said.
Obieze, a native doctor from Umuajor village in Enugu State, is believed to be part of a three-man gang that abducted a 13-year-old girl on May 27, 2025, while she was walking with her father to the farm. The victim was later rescued from a shrine allegedly linked to Obieze.
Authorities confirmed his identity through a National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) enrollment slip found on him at the time of arrest.