Police parade Libyan deportee, 61 other suspected criminals

NO fewer than 62 persons , including a Libyan deportee, Destiny Kelly, have been arrested by the Edo State Police Command for various criminal offences in the state.
The Commissioner of Police , Mr . Johnson Kokumo , who disclosed this to journalists , explained that the suspects were arrested between December , 2017 and January , 2018 .

Kokumo stated that the police command recovered several items , including seven AK47 rifles, one pump – action gun , 34 cut – to – size guns , one toy gun , a machete and a face mask , from the suspected criminals .
He also said seven operational vehicles used by the suspects were recovered .
The Libyan deportee, Kelly, he said , was picked up by policemen on December 2 , 2017 , along with his accomplices , for allegedly abducting and robbing a female corps member .
The two accomplices were identified as Christopher Agbonugo , 29 , and Endurance Aburimeh , 23 .
Aburimeh confessed that the gang picked up their victim , one Joseph Jennifer , at Ramat Park, en route to Ring Road.
He explained that his gang member , Agbonugo , posed as a cab operator , while Kelly and himself ( Aburimeh ) pretended to be passengers .

He said as the car approached the Ikpoba slope area, the suspects tortured their victim and forced her to surrender her mobile phone, N4 , 000 cash and ATM card .
However , they were said to have run out of luck when the victim ’ s phone was tracked by the police , leading to Christopher ’ s arrest .

Narrating her ordeal, Jennifer said the hoodlums failed in their bid to empty her bank account as it had not been authorised for withdrawals .
She said , “ I was coming from Uromi, so the bus driver dropped us at Ramat Park . I needed to take a taxi to Ring Road. As I was inside ( the taxi) around Ikpoba slope , suddenly, I felt a shock and before I knew it, my head was between the legs of one of them.
“ They started to hit me on the head . The more I begged , the more they hit me . So , I gave them my bag and everything . One of them went to the bank to collect money from my bank account but he could not collect money .
“ They became angry and beat and tortured me in the car . Even I could not withdraw money from the account because the Federal Government just paid money into the account and had not opened it for my use . ”
Kelly, who said he was deported from Libya in February , 2017 , claimed to have engaged in robbery only once .
“ I spent about four years in Libya but I was deported. That robbery was my first attempt . We planned to collect her phone and we did , ” he added .
The Commissioner of Police , Kokumo , said the suspects specialised in robbing unsuspecting passengers and had confessed to the crime .
Kokumo said , “ Through intelligence -led policing , they (suspects ) were established as authors of the crime . They have also confessed .
“ They had an Audi 80 car , as an operational vehicle . They pretended as if they were operators to unsuspecting commuters . They picked them up and rob them of their valuables . ”

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