POLICE operatives in Abia State have
paraded four suspected fake members of the Nigerian Security and Civil
Defence Corps along the Ugwunagbo axis of the Enugu/Port Harcourt
expressway.
The suspects are Thankgod Ani, Chinedu Ezekwem, Peter Onyemachi and Chiemezie Nnadozie.
Items recovered from the suspects were
two pairs of NSCDC uniform, a pair of scissors, three machetes, two
torchlights and two pairs of safety boots.
Speaking while parading the hoodlums at
the police headquarters in Umuahia, the Abia State capital, the
Commissioner of Police in the State, Mr. Adeleye Oyebade, said a police
patrol team intercepted one Passat car with Registration No. NKR 271 AA
on August 26, 2016.
He added that the four occupants of the
car claimed to be members of NSCDC but on interrogation, it was
discovered that they were impersonators on a mission to hijack tanker
truck with either PMS or AGO petroleum products on the expressway.
Oyebade noted that the command had completed investigation into the case and added that prosecution would follow promptly.
He assured the people of Abia that the
command was ready to flush out of the state criminals indulging in child
stealing, kidnapping, rape and armed robbery, adding that all the
officers in the state had been well trained to do the job.
The CP commended members of the public,
who had been giving the police information on criminal activities around
their communities and pointed out that such information had reduced the
response time to distress call by the police.
He urged members of the public to continue to give useful information to the police that would help to apprehend criminals.
Some of the suspects, who spoke with Southern City News, confessed to the crime with Ani admitting that he arranged for the failed operation.
He said, “I planned the operation that
failed. Our aim was to hijack any tanker truck loaded with petroleum
products along the road and sell the product to raise money for
ourselves.
“The pressure I have been receiving from
the people I owe and hunger led me into this crime. I made the NSCDC
uniform myself because I have some experience in making clothes. I
bought all the materials from the market.
“We used public transport to the place
we stayed for the operation on the first day, but on the second day,
Nnadozie brought his boss’s car and we went with the car. We were
arrested immediately we arrived at the place we wanted to stay for the
operation.”
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