The Police High Command on Wednesday paraded 11 undergraduates of the Ambrose Ali University, Epkoma, Edo State, for alleged cultism.
It also paraded 20 others for alleged high-profile criminal activities ranging from conspiracy, kidnapping to armed robbery in the country.
Paradng the suspects in Abuja, the Force Public Relations Officer, FPRO, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi said the suspects were arrested by the operatives of the Force Intelligence Bureau, Intelligence Response Team, FIB/IRT of the Inspector-General of Police IGP, led by its Commander, Olatunji Disu, a Deputy Commissioner of Police, DCP.
The FPRO who was flanked by the Commander of the FIB/IRT squad, DCP Disu said that all the suspects were picked at different locations in the country and that they all confessed their various levels of participation in the criminal activities for which they were arrested.
Adejobi who said that the Inspector General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba
had declared total war om cultism in the nation’s education institutions stated that the undergraduates were picked up by the operatives following credible intelligence information
He explained that various incriminating items including weapons were recovered from them while their leader had also made useful information to the police regarding to their activities
The FPRO also paraded four suspects who allegedly murdered a retired Divisional Police Officer (DPO) in Bauchi state and member of the Bauchi State House of Assembly respectfully
He said that all the suspects had confessed to the killing of the retired Divisional Police Officer, DPO CS Garkuwa and a serving lawmaker Hon. Musa Mante of the state House of Assembly.
While the suspects said that they killed the Police officer after his retirement for making life tough and miserable for them by constantly searching for them, they also said that they killed the late lawmaker and kidnapped his wives and children for failing to assist them with funds after making several requests for it.
The syndicate’s key suspect is Hamishu Galadima 48 alias Kan Wuka and Abdulwahab Alhassan alias Emeka and Abdulwahab Ahmed alias Dan mama and Hamidu Saleh, confirming they wre kidnappers arrested by the IRT operatives after intelligence reports on the kidnappings, armed robbery and criminal conspiracy were lodged against them by the indegenes of Dass LGA of Bauchi State.
The FPRO also paraded three fleeing suspects who escaped from the Kuje Medium Custodial Centre of Nigeria Correctional Service NCS, on Tuesday, July 5, 2022.
He explained that following the jail break and subsequent release of the personal particulars of the fleeing felons in which security agencies were given marching orders to ensure prompt rearrest of the fleeing inmates of the prison, the IRT tasked its officers to double down, an action that led to their arrest.
According to him, the suspects included Abdulrazak Isah (m) 27 from Ondo State residing in Tafa Local Council Area of Kaduna State, Danjuma Tanko (m) 50 and Taofeek Alao (m) 35, a computer system analyst specialising in data analysis who also hails from the same area in Kaduna.
“In his confessional statement, he told the Police team that he actually killed the alien and was 17 years old when he was sentenced to life jail even as a minor at the time of the incident.
“He also told the Police team that his escape from the prison facility was due to the special treatment in terms of feeding and accommodation given to some other prison inmates like Boko Haram detainees while the authorities starve other inmates.
“He also stated that he had served ten years in the prison facility from the time of his imprisonment till the time of the jail break at the midnight of July 5, 2022”
He promised that all the suspects still undergoing investigation by the Police would be arraigned for appropriate sanctions
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