Robbers in police uniform rob motorists in Delta

Delta State Commissioner of Police, Alkali Usman

Armed hoodlums, allegedly operating in police uniform, have continued to rob motorists on Ibusa/Asaba road.
It was gathered that the armed hoodlums were dressed in police uniform in order to deceive unsuspecting motorists before robbing them at gun point.
A victim, Mrs. Stella Odeh, who boarded a commercial tricycle on her way to Ibusa, narrated her ordeal to Southern City News.



She said, “I was going to Ibusa on a tricycle when we ran into two men who wore police uniform.

“They ordered the tricycle rider to stop, only for them to search us and remove the money in our bags, handsets and jewelries. When we raised alarm, they ran into the bush.”

Odeh said the armed robbers had females who also wore police uniform.

But the state Police Commissioner in the State, Mr. Alkali Usman, who dismissed the allegation as untrue, however, admitted that Ibusa and Umunede communities had been flashpoints of robbery syndicates.

Usman pointed out that the police had re-strategized with a view to ensuring that the hoodlums were apprehended and brought to book.

Meanwhile, a suspected armed robbery kingpin identified as Jossy Ekoh has been arrested in Umunede by police detectives in the area.

The state Police Public Relations Officer, Mrs. Celestina Kalu, who confirmed the arrest of the robbery kingpin, said the police acted on a tip-off that robbers were operating in a house within the community.

Kalu disclosed that the suspects had held their victims hostage, adding that the police moved quickly to the scene and arrested the 25-year-old suspect, who was identified as the leader of the robbery gang while others escaped into the bush.

Items recovered from the suspect, the police image maker said, included cut-to-size double barrel, locally-made pistol, one toy gun, two live cartridges, one black mask and 26 wraps of a substance suspected to be hemp.