The Anambra State Police Command has Paraded some of the suspects concerned in varied crimes on the Command’s Headquarters Amawbia.
The State Commissioner of Police, CP Adeoye Aderemi, said this whereas addressing the press on his scorecard for 3 months since his assumption of workplace in Anambra State.
“Out of the 128 suspects, 30 were arrested for insurgency, 38 were arrested for cultism, armed robbery 39 and 22 for kidnapping and a total of 119 arms and ammunition were recovered from the suspects within the period under review.
The 6 suspects and their receivers who were earlier arrested for vandalising the second Niger Bridge armored cable and one other News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) properties serial robber in Awka were among those paraded,” he said.
The Commissioner listed the objects recovered from the suspects: pump motion weapons, domestically made cut-to-size weapons, pistols and cartridges, faux police uniforms, Biafra flags, assorted charms, one roll armored cable and 16 iron grills stolen from the 2nd Niger Bridge Onitsha, others are 14 tricycles, 9 automobiles and seven bikes.
“All the suspects will be charged to Court as soon as the investigation is concluded.
6 kidnapped victims were also rescued by the operatives and they have long been reunited with their families,” he famous.
Sources and Proliferation Of Weapons
CP Adeoye, additionally hinted that arms and ammunition are being traded in Onitsha, the business metropolis of the State however assured that the commerce would stop below his watch till Anambra State is pronounced a free crime state in Nigeria.
“I am talking from a long experience of my service in the state, during the 90s, and the situation had even worsened now. Onitsha’s main market is one of the sources for the proliferation of weapons in the state. And also Awka blacksmiths manufacture local guns, thereby contributing in the proliferation of illegal arms, but I tell you the command will go after such arm manufacturers and bring them to book,” he expatiated.
The Commissioner additionally famous that unlawful arms have been additionally being introduced into the South-East from Cameroon by way of Port Harcourt. He mentioned the sellers would bundle such weapons with stockfish and convey them to a spot close to Aba, Abia State for prepared consumers.
Grace Period
He, nevertheless, restated the Inspector General of Police’s grace interval for individuals with unlawful firearms to return them to the police, stating that inside the grace interval, no person could be punished or prosecuted for returning such arms.
‘After this grace interval we will start the search and restoration of such firearms the best way that it has not been accomplished on this half of the nation and culprits might be prosecuted appropriately,” he warned.
A RUNDOWN OF ACHIEVEMENTS RECORDED BY ANAMBRA STATE POLICE COMMAND FROM 1ST JULY 2023 TO DATE:
Number of INSURGENTS ARRESTED – 30
Number of armed ROBBERY SUSPECTS ARRESTED – 39
Number of CULTISTS ARRESTED – 38
Number of KIDNAPPERS ARRESTED – 22
Number of KIDNAPPED VICTIMS RESCUED – 6
Number of FIREARM RECOVERED – 26
Number of AMMUNITION RECOVERED – 93
Number of MOTOR VEHICLES RECOVERED – 25
Number of TRICYCLES RECOVERED – 14
Number of bikes RECOVERED – 7
Number of ARMORED CABLES RECOVERED – One roll
Number of IRON GRILL FROM 2nd NIGER BRIDGE RECOVERED – 16.
The State Deputy Commissioner of Police in cost of Operation, DCP Ibrahim Ezekiel and the State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Tochukwu Ikenga, have been additionally current through the media replace.
