A 38-year-old Nigerian, Oghenemaro Ejerua, has been arrested by the Toronto Police Service in Canada for allegedly assaulting vulnerable adults while working as a caregiver in the Sibley Avenue and Dentonia Park Avenue.\n<\/p>\n
PUNCH Metro learnt from a statement obtained on the Toronto Police Service website on Tuesday that Ejerua was arrested after being declared wanted in December 2025.\n<\/p>\n
The statement disclosed that Ejerua was employed as a caregiver at a group home for vulnerable adults between November 1 and November 30, 2025.\n<\/p>\n
It noted that during the period of his employment, he allegedly committed a series of assaults on residents of the home.<\/p>\n
The statement read, \u201cOn Wednesday, December 10, 2025, at approximately 9 a.m., police responded to a call for an assault in the Sibley Avenue and Dentonia Park Avenue area.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is alleged that the suspect was employed as a caregiver at a group home for vulnerable adults between November 1 and November 30, 2025. During this period, the accused committed a series of assaults on the residents of the home.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
Following the report, the police declared Ejerua wanted, and after a manhunt, he was arrested.<\/p>\n
The statement added that he was charged with seven counts of assault.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cOghenemaro Dave Ejerua, 38, of Toronto, has been arrested and charged with seven counts of assault.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was scheduled to appear in court at the Ontario Court of Justice, 10 Armoury Street, on Wednesday, January 7, 2026, at 10:00am, in room 106,\u201d it stated.\n<\/p>\n
Ejerua is not the first Nigerian to be arrested in Canada for misconduct.\n<\/p>\n
PUNCH Metro reported on Thursday that the Toronto Police arrested a 28-year-old Nigerian, Babatunde Afuwape, in connection with the killing of a 20-year-old university student, Shivank Avasthi, in Canada.\n<\/p>\n
The police said Afuwape was charged with murder over the incident, which occurred on December 23, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 38-year-old Nigerian, Oghenemaro Ejerua, has been arrested by the Toronto Police Service in Canada for allegedly assaulting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[17963,172001,49,48,172002,172003,172004,55309,172005,172006,172007,44,172008,172009,172010,21251,79076,172011],"class_list":["post-408278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-assault","tag-assault-charges","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canada-crime","tag-caregiver-abuse","tag-caregiver-assault","tag-crime-news","tag-group-home","tag-group-home-abuse","tag-group-home-assault","tag-news","tag-nigerian-caregiver","tag-nigerians-in-canada","tag-oghenemaro-ejerua","tag-toronto-news","tag-toronto-police","tag-vulnerable-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}