BEVERLY HILLS, May 25, (THEWILL) – 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.”
