Timothy Emmanuel, a suspect wearing military camouflage arrested by police in Nasarawa State.
By Arinze Chetuni, Lafia
The Nigeria Police Force, Nasarawa state command has arrested one Timothy Emmanuel who has been parading himself as a military officer and intimidating residents of Karu and Lafia local government areas of the state has been arrested.
Parading the suspect on Friday in Lafia with 60 other suspected criminals arrested for various offenses in the state, Commissioner of Police, CP Adesina Soyemi explained that the suspect, who is an indigene of Plateau state and has been on the watch list of the police, was arrested along B.A.D road in Lafia while he was trying to escape in a black Toyota Corolla vehicle with number plate ABUJA BWA 973 CD suspected to be a stolen vehicle.
“One Timothy Emmanuel of Bakin Chiyawa village, Quanpan LGA of Plateau state, a fake military officer who has been on our watch list has been arrested by officers of the police command. The 28-year-old suspect was wearing a military camouflage and was in possession of an AK-47 riffle with two magazines.
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“The suspect was never enlisted into the Army but got the uniform from his uncle who is a military personnel serving in Borno state. I have directed that further investigation into the matter should be carried out at the State Criminal Investigation Department in Lafia”, CP Soyemi added.
Suspects paraded by the Police in Nasarawa State on Friday 18th September, 2021.
The Commissioner of Police also paraded some of the suspects who are alledged to have vandalized railway tracks from Jenkwe Development Area of Obi LGA and were conveying the commodity to an unknown destination in the state.
“In continuation of the fight against rail tracks vandalism, police operatives of the Anti-kidnapping unit led by CSP Anietie Eyoh while working on credible intelligence, intercepted a truck without number plate which was conveying vandalized rail tracks stocked in two container bodies. The suspects confessed to the crime but further investigation will be carried out on the matter”, he said.
CP Soyemi disclosed that four vehicles, five firearms, five handsets, four rounds of live ammunition, two magazines and one laptop computer were among items recovered from the suspects.
