– The Nigeria Police Force has revealed
that it has arrested five suspects involved in the midnight raid on Ukpabi Nimbo
community in Uzo-Uwani Local Government Area of Enugu State on April 25
which left at least 20 people dead.
This was disclosed in a statement released by the police on Wednesday signed
by The Force Public Relations Officer, Olabisi Kolawole.
She revealed that operatives of the Police Inspector General’s Intelligence
Response Team (IRT) arrested the suspects based on “credible intelligence”.
“The Nigeria Police Force in its renewed determination to rid the society of
crimes and all forms of criminality, has arrested five of the suspects involved in
the midnight raid on Nimbo community in the Uzo-Uwani Local Government
Area of Enugu State April 25, 2016 as operatives of the IGP’s Intelligence
Response Team based on credible technical intelligence swooped on them,” the
statement read.
“The IGP’s IRT, based on the intelligence gathered on the attack, arrested the
following suspects viz: Mohammed Zurai, Ciroma Musa, Sale Adamu, Suleiman
Laute and Haruna Laute.”
She added that Police also recovered one Gionee L88 mobile phone with
memory card containing the video recording of the massacre in the community.
The police also revealed that the team, on May 6, arrested a three-man
syndicate of bank robbers/kidnappers and recovered arms, ammunition,
dynamites and rifle servicing tools from them.
“The gang members, Gogo Daniel Ume, Ikado Michael and Ifeanyi Kalu had been
terrorizing Rivers, Imo and Enugu State, respectively,” the statement said.
“Items recovered from them include 3 AK-47 rifles; 1 LAR rifle; 310 rounds of
live ammunition; 12 rifle magazines; rifle servicing tools; cache of dynamite
explosive; 1 Toyota Highlander Jeep; 1 Toyota Venza jeep; and 1Ford Edge
Jeep.
“In continuation of the IRT anti-kidnapping operations in Kaduna State, the
team on 20/05/2016 as well arrested Babangida Ibrahim; Idris Abubakar and
Idris Mai Anguwa in the State for allegedly involved in kidnapping and robbery,
while different calibre of weapons were also recovered from the bandits.”
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