Wednesday, November 28, 2012

1 die as 2-storey building collapses in Owerri



NO fewer than 24 suspects were paraded by police on Tuesday for various offences.
Disclosing this at a press conference on Tuesday, the state Commissioner of Police, Mr Ikemefuna Okoye, said the command recorded success in crime control in the outgoing month.
The police boss said the command had returned a sum N6.9 million stolen by armed robbers from the Automated Teller Machine (ATM) of a new generation bank in Sagamu area of Ogun State on Sunday to the bank.
Most of the suspects paraded were involved in armed robbery cases, while live ammunition were recovered from them.
A student of Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), Ago-Iwoye, names withheld, was arrested for murder, armed robbery and cultism.
Okoye said he was arrested with one cut-to-size single barrel gun in his hideout in Ago-Iwoye.
The student, according to the police boss, was said to be a wanted person in a case of murder, which was under investigation and was also described as the number two of the Eiye confranternity in the school.
He said, Usman Lateef and Endurance Dibie, were arrested by a team of police patrol, who foiled an attempted robbery at Oke-Aro junction, in Agbado area of the state.
Tribune

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