The Akwa Ibom State Police
Command said it has arrested a total of 104 suspects for various offences across
the State, ranging from cultism, kidnapping, armed robbery, child
stealing/selling and other crimes.
Briefing Journalist at the Command headquarters, Ikot Akpan Abia, Uyo, the State
Commissioner of Police, ZUBAIRU MUAZU, disclosed that 15 suspected Kidnappers and 20 Cultist
were also apprehended and charged to Court.
He explained that his decision
to temporarily relocate the Operation Base of the Special Anti-Kidnapping and
Anti-Cultism Units to identified flashpoints in Ukanafun, Etim Ekpo and Onna,
yielded positive results.
The CP
explaining further said Public trust and confidence in the police has improved
tremendously with large flow of information from members of the public being
unprecedented, adding that more platforms where the Police and Members of the
public interface regularly were established.
Items recovered from
the suspects includes, Two AK 47 rifles with three magazines and eighteen
rounds of live ammunition was recovered, One Assault rifle, Two Pump Action, One
Berretta pistol with eight rounds of live ammunition, 8 Locally made pistols
and 1 single barrel gun with 12 live cartridges.
Also recovered
were One Toyota Avalon Car, one Lexus Jeep, one Toyota corolla, one Toyota
Camry and a cash sum of Two Million, Eight Hundred and Seventy Thousand
(#2,870,000).
In another
development, the Police boss said the Command has finally arrested the
notorious gang responsible for series of Bank related robberies in the State.
The suspects are, Hycent
Loveday Bright, Menford Austine John, and John Usam Chibueze
where arrested on November 3, in Eket, following a sustained monitoring.
He said the Team at Eket
received a distress call of a robbery in progress at Food affairs, opposite
First Bank, Eket. One Nkerewen Bassey Akpan withdrew the sum of One Million
Naira (#1m) cash from First Bank Eket and was trailed and blocked by the
suspects and robbed of the said amount withdrawn.
Items recovered from them
include: One Toyota Avalon Reg. No. NCH 28 ST with ignition key: Cash sum of
#521,300.00; One Tecno phone; Different ATM Cards, etc.
CP Maizu said the
ring leader, Hycent Loveday Bright based in Eket, while the other gang members
always come from Rivers State, adding that they will soon be charged to court on
completion of investigation.
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