…Police rescue man from cultists
Juliana Francis
An armed robber who robbed a victim at gunpoint in Delta State, bolting with his N700,000 necklace has been arrested.
The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Bright Edafe, while narrating the incident, explained that on the 25th of June 2023, at about 8:30 PM, the DPO Sapele division, CSP Harrison Nwabuisi received a distress call from a victim that as he alighted from his car, a suspected armed robber attacked him with a gun, cut his gold chain from his neck valued N700,000 and took to his heels.”
The DPO Sapele division immediately alerted the patrol team deployed around that axis. They swung into action and arrested the suspect named Lucky Sunday, 25, of Otumara village Jesse.
Exhibits recovered from the suspect are one cut-to-size double barrel locally made pistol, three live cartridges, one phone, and the stolen gold chain.
In an earlier development, on the same date at about 3:23 PM, while police operatives from the Sapele division were on visibility patrol around Sapele and environs, heard some suspected cultists chanting ‘ARO MATE’.
The policemen swiftly moved to the area where the suspects on sighting the police took to their heels, leaving behind a victim they were holding hostage with the intention to murder him.
The victim was rescued unhurt and reunited with his family, and one pump action gun was recovered.
In another development on the 26th of June 2023, at about 1:35 am, the DPO Agbor division, CSP Idris Haruna received a distress call of an ongoing armed robbery operation along Uromi Junction Agbor.
The DPO promptly responded and led operatives of the division to the scene where the hoodlums on sighting the police took to their heels and escaped into a nearby bush abandoning one cut-to-size locally fabricated gun, one expanded cartridge.
“The victims are aged 41 and 36, and both of the Agbor community were rescued unhurt. They stated that they were attacked on their way from the Agbor-Obia area towards Uromi Junction Agbor. Exhibit in custody, the investigation has commenced, and effort is on to arrest the fleeing suspects,” said Edafe.
The Delta State Commissioner of Police, Wale Abass assured residents of the command’s commitment to the fight against crime and criminality, noting that it will be improved, maintained, and sustained.
