Police nab four suspected militants over pipeline vandals
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NIGERIA: THE Nigeria Police Force has apprehended four suspected militant leaders who have been vandalizing pipelines in Arepo area of Ogun State.
Similarly, the police command has deployed its men with Armoured Personnel Carriers to fish out other gang members from the creek.
The state Command Public Relations Officer, Muyiwa Adejobi, who disclosed this on Sunday, stressed that a special operation coordinated by the Police Commissioner, Abdulmajid Ali, arrested the suspects.
According to him, those nabbed are Pere Ugbozuwa (40), who is the secretary to the militants, Audu Tony (39), Ifeanyi Eze (29) and Ojogo Ezekiel (23).
Adejobi, a Deputy Superintendent of Police, further stated that the arrested suspects and other gang members have been established to be behind the killings, damaging of PPMC/NNPC pipelines and criminal acts at Arepo over the years.
The police image maker stated that the suspects have made useful statements that will assist the officer in charge of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) to carry out thorough investigation and make more arrests.
Adejobi said: “The command had deployed men from the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Police Mobile Force, Safer Highway, and Anti-Crime teams from various sections of the command to attack the hoodlums in the creek with two (2) Armoured Personnel Carriers.”
Similarly, operatives of the Quick Response Squad of the Command have arrested two vandals, Olamilekan Akinyemi, and Ramon Mudashiru, near Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministry, along Lagos/Ibadan Expressway.
The PPRO said that the suspects were apprehended on Saturday around 8.30pm with a Ford Bus with registration number LAGOS MUS 887 XF, blue colour, loaded with 14 (fourteen) 200 litre drums and several jerry cans of petrol (PMS).
Adejobi said that Ali has warned “recalcitrant vandals”, who operate at Ogunmakin, Onimaalu, Ogere, Ibafo, Ijebu Ode, Simawa and Ogijo, to desist from the act or else they would soon be apprehended.
Ali urged residents of Arepo and affected communities where the suspected vandals have been terrorising to be calm and support the police in its battle against the criminals who have been sabotaging Nigeria’s economy.
