By Ikemefuna Asika
The Police in Anambra state have apprehended nine persons suspected to be responsible for vandalizing the Second Niger Bridge.
The Commissioner of Police in the state, Aderemi Adeoye announced this at the Command headquarters, Amawbia while briefing journalists on the progress so far recorded by the Command within the three months he assumed duty in the State.
According to him, apart from arresting the suspects and apprehending the buyers of the vandalized items, all the sixteen iron grills earlier stolen from the bridge have been recovered from them.
Adeoye explained that the breakthrough became possible through a collaboration between the Federal Ministry of Works, the Police and the Contractor handling the project who took up the challenge of getting those behind the incident few months after the Second Niger Bridge was inaugurated for use.
The Commissioner of Police who regretted the activities of cultists especially within Awka the state capital noted that thirty eight of them were also arrested within the period under review while thirty of them had been charged to court and remanded in prison by the judiciary.
According to him, the Police tracked one of the most serial killers to Enugu state and apprehended him before he confessed that his cult gang had killed four persons in Awka including a private security guard that was recently killed at Eke Awka Market and his head was cut off.
Adeoye told journalists that thirty nine armed robbers were apprehended while thirty insurgents operating in various locations of the state also met their Waterloo.
He said twenty two suspects were arrested for kidnapping incidents across the state while six victims were rescued by officers and men of the command.
Five suspects that specialize in intercepting commercial buses along the Amorka Ihiala road were also apprehended after a joint team went after them and rescued eighteen passengers they had kidnapped from a vehicle on the said day.
Mr Adeoye explained that twenty six guns were recovered including ninety three rounds of Ammunition and one roll of armoured cable.
He also confirmed that twenty five vehicles , fourteen tricycles and seven Motorcycles were all recovered at various locations of operation including Ogbunka were a camp was recently raided .
The suspects who were paraded before journalists includes a middle aged man apprehended while he was vanderlizing State office of the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN close to Anambra state government house in Awka.
