Enugu, Ebonyi Indigenes Carrying Out Armed Robbery Attacks In Anambra, Police Allege

The Police in Anambra State have arrested two armed robbery suspects, saying that the two who are members of a robbery gang are indigenes of Enugu and Ebonyi States respectively.

The press statement from the office of the Police Public Relations Officer of the Anambra command DSP Ikenga Tochukwu Anthony has it that the arrested robbery suspects specialised in dispossessing unsuspecting citizens of their belongings on the Second Niger Bridge in the Onitsha axis of the state.

The statement also revealed that the suspects used deadly weapons like daggers, knives, and others on their victims.

The statement reads, ” Men of Anambra State Police Command attached to Harbour  Division last week nabbed two robbers dispossessing unsuspecting citizens of their valuables on the  Second Niger Bridge.

The Police team which was on surveillance patrol on the Bridge to prevent vandals from stealing expansion joints was alerted to the activities of the gang near the Obosi end of the bridge.

The Covert Police Team monitored the gang and swooped in on them arresting two of the gangsters while others fled.

When searched, two daggers and five sim cards removed from previously stolen phones were recovered from the suspects aged between 20 and 22 years.

One of the suspects hailed from Enugu State and the other from Ebonyi State.

The Commissioner of Police CP Aderemi Adeoye commended the Police Team for its vigilance and courage in confronting the gang.

He has directed that owners of the recovered sim cards be located to assemble evidence for the successful prosecution of the  arrested suspects.”