Ebonyi State Police Command Tuesday paraded nine suspects in connection
with various crimes ranging from armed robbery, cultism, and unlawful
possession of firearms to vandalism.
Among those paraded include
members of a robbery gang that operates on highways. They are; Ndubuisi
Iseh, 23; Uchenna Nweke, 24, and Sunday Elom, the driver.
The
hoodlums had perfected plans to rob in Lagos but were prevented by the
police who trailed them after snatching their rifles which they wanted
to use for the operation.
Parading the suspects at Police
Headquarters, Abakaliki, the state Commissioner of Police Peace Ibekwe
Abdallah told newsmen that the hoodlums attacked a team of policemen on
stop and search duty at Evangel Camp junction, Okpoto in Ishielu Local
Government Area of the state.
She disclosed that the gang
inflicted bullet wounds and machete cuts on the policemen during the
attacked and snatched three AK47 rifles with 20 rounds of live
ammunition in each of the rifles.
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