Anambra Police Arrest Two Suspects, Recover Large Quantity of Gunpowder, Locally-made Pistol, Live Ammunition
Police-led Joint Security Force while on intelligent-driven routine patrol along the pillar-pole area of Aguata on 22/9/2024, intercepted a suspect, name withheld, carrying three bags of Garri.
The Operatives upon search of the suspect discovered beneath the edible, a large quantity of gunpowder.
The Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, who disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday, 25th of September, 2023, said that preliminary information revealed that the suspect was en route to a criminal camp to deliver groceries for consumption and the gunpowder for production of Improvised Explosives for the gang.
The PPRO said that the suspect is currently in custody and assisting the Police to arrest the other gang members
The also informed that in another development, Operatives of the Special Anti-Cultism Squad (SPACS) acting on credible information, stormed a criminal hideout in Oba, Idemili South LGA, in the early hours of Wednesday, 25/9/2024, and arrested one Nelson Wisdom ‘M’ from Etsako East, Edo State, and recovered one locally fabricated pistol with two live ammunition.
Ikenga said that all the suspects will be charged to court on the conclusion of the investigations
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, CP Nnaghe Obono Itam, has reiterated that the Police Command and Other security agencies will continue to act on information to sustain the onslaught Operations against criminal elements, and will continue to frustrate their evil plans in the State.
