CP Bola Longe, (left) the Commissioner of Police, Nasarawa State Command commissioning a Police Post located at Gunduma, Karu local government area, donated by Mr Sam Ayongo, on Friday, April 23, 2021. Credit : Facebook page, NPF, Nasarawa State.
By Abasifreke Effiong
The Police in Nasarawa State have burst a gang of armed robbers who wrote letters to communities in New Karu, near FCT, telling them that they are coming to rob.
A covert team of policemen from New Karu division arrested two members of the gang last weekend while they were planning to rob the communities.
Police sources told The Dune that the police in New Karu division, Karu local government area of Nasarawa State led by SP Aaron Kaura, had launched a haunt for members of the armed robbery gang after communities in the area reported that they were served a letter from a gang threatening to rob the community.
“Many communities reported to the police that they received a letter from a robbery gang. The gang said it was coming to rob the communities. So, there was apprehension everywhere in the affected communities but thank God the police were able to burst the gang and abort their heinous mission”, a police source said.
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Police Public Relations Officer in Nasarawa State, ASP Ramhan Nansel, confirmed in a phone interview that the police aborted a criminal operation “while the gang members were planning the operation.”
“Having given letters to some communities, they were preparing to rob, so they were having a meeting, that was when Police rounded them up”, ASP Nansel said.
Two of the gang members arrested by the police, one Onofiok Job and Sunday Akpan, a.k.a ‘small calabar’, have confessed that they have been robbing communities near the FCT.
“Since the gang had dispatched letters to the communities, police made adequate deployment, both covert and overt, to the area in order to frustrate their effort in making that threat possible. So, on Saturday, at about 10p.m, the covert police deployed to the area saw a group of young men walking aimlessly in the area, so when they were rounded up and stopped, two of them ran and one of them was apprehended. When a search was conducted on the bag he had on him, two locally made pistols and two cartridges were discovered in the bag, so he was arrested.
“He has confessed to being part of the armed robbery gang that has been carrying out nefarious activities in that area, New Karu and FCT environ. So, a follow up on the investigation led to the arrest of the second suspect on Sunday. Effort is ongoing to arrest other fleeing suspects”, the police spokesman said.
Nasarawa State have been battling with increasing cases of banditry, kidnapping and armed robbery.
The Nasarawa State Police Command led by CP Bola Longe, has made tremendous success haunting down the criminals. Recall that last month the Police command nabbed a 12 member gang that kidnapped 26 officials of the Federal Road Safety Corps in September 2020.
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