Police operatives traced the vehicle’s location and effected the arrest of the suspect.
Another suspect, Eze Chika, 45, of Obiokwara Umualoma, Ideato North LGA, was allegedly found with the four-year-old.
Unknown gunmen, on Monday evening, struck at the Irete axis of the Owerri-Onitsha Expressway, killing four police operatives and a female point-of-sale operator.
The police command in Imo says it arrested five notorious armed robbery suspects terrorising Owerri and its environs.
Gunmen on Monday opened fire on a residential building in Orogwe, Owerri West Local Government Area, killing seven people and injuring six others.
Mr Babafemi said the desperate drug trafficker was travelling by road to Algeria through Sokoto state before he was arrested in Ibadan.
