Rivers State Police Command has arrested a policeman identified as Sergeant Ibrahim Odege, for allegedly being involved in an armed robbery in Elekahia community, Port Harcourt Local Government Area of the state.
The State Police Operatives also nabbed a 32-year-old Sampson Inomoghe who was operating with Sergeant Odege on Saturday night.
The duo entered the community with a motorcycle robbing victims with a pistol until one of the victims raised an alarm and all exit routes from the community were blocked, leading to their arrest.
Spokesman of the state Police Command, Nnamdi Omoni, in a statement on Sunday, said assorted handsets and a locally made pistol were recovered from the suspects.
One of the victims, Doris Elechi, identified the suspects as the same persons that robbed her of her valuables, Omoni added.
The state police spokesman, who stated that the suspects had confessed to have carried out the robbery, added that the Commissioner of Police, Joseph Mukan, had condemned the act.
The CP also ordered the immediate transfer of suspects and exhibits to the State Criminal Investigation Department for Investigation.
He said, “Operatives of the Elekahia Division on 16/1/2021 at about 2200Hrs responded to a distress call at the Elekahia Housing Estate, where two armed robbers, who were robbing people and dispossessing them of their valuables were arrested.
“The timely arrival of the police led to the arrest of the two armed robbers, who were later identified as Sergeant Ibrahim Odege attached to the Operations Department of the Rivers Police Command and one Sampson Inomoghe ‘m’ 32yrs from Nembe in Bayelsa State, but resides at Rumuokwrushi in Obio/Akpor LGA.
“The duo were arrested at the scene of crime with the following exhibits; three different handsets belonging to their victims and one locally made Bareta pistol. One of the Victims, Mrs Doris Elechi, identified them as those that robbed her of her Tecno handset, which is one of the exhibits recovered.