Operatives of the Anambra State Police command have arrested five suspects in connection with the vandalism of the Second Niger Bridge facilities.
The police command also nabbed three suspects for being in possession of the vandalised items and recovered 16 iron grills from them.
The commissioner of police in Anambra State, CP Aderemi Adeoye said following an alarm raised by the officials of the Ministry of Works concerning the vandalism of the Second Niger Bridge facilities, he gave marching orders to a team of the command’s operatives and with the “cooperation of the officials of the Federal Ministry of Works, the firm handling the Second Niger Bridge project, Julius Berger Plc and the security guards on the bridge, we have recovered all the facilities stolen from the Second Niger Bridge, and, we are going to release them to the contractors.”
Adeoye, who highlighted the achievements recorded by the command within the past three months he was deployed to the state, said that the operatives of the command have rescued six kidnap victims adding also that just a week ago, 18 passengers who were abducted by a criminal gang at Amorka in Ihiala local government area of the state while traveling from Port-Harcourt, Rivers State have been rescued and that they have continued on their journey.
He said 26 guns and 93 rounds of various calibres of ammunition were recovered from criminals within the period.
Adeoye paraded about 25 suspects and displayed about six vehicles of different brands and disclosed that the command within the three months arrested 30 insurgents, 39 armed robbery suspects, 38 suspected cultists and 22 kidnap suspects.
He said that 30 of the suspected cultists were those operating in Awka the Anambra State capital, and, that the deadliest killer amongst them was traced to the neighbouring Enugu in Enugu State, and, that he is already in the command’s custody, and, that he had made mind-boggling revelations including the killing of an operative of a private security firm based in Awka, Blueshield whom according to the suspect was killed by a rival cult group to the one he belonged to.
The commissioner also stated that 34 of the arrested cultists had been remanded in prison custody by the courts.
