Police in Niger State have arrested a three-man robbery gang who specialised in terrorizing residents of Fadipe community and its environs in Minnaq, the state capital and dispossessed their victims of huge sums of money , DSTV decoders, laptops, telephone handsets and other valuable items.
The suspects who are now being detained and investigated at the Government Reservation Areas (GRA) Police station, Minna, include Stephen Andrew, 18 years old, Danbaba Solomon, 26 and Mustapha Mohammed Jimoh, 25.
The Nigerian Tribune further gathered that nemesis caught up with the suspects at about 3am on Saturday, February 8, 2014, immediately after their escape from a robbery scene. They were said to be in the habit of carrying out their robbery operations with cutlasses, iron bars and other dangerous weapons with which they intimidated their victims.
According to the Divisional Police Officer, GRA Police station, Mr Ezenwaeze Paul, in a brief encounter with Nigerian Tribune on Monday in Minna, said “in the early hours of Saturday, February 8, 2014 at about 3am, we got a distress call from some of the victims of the robbery incidents. But before we could reach the robbery scene, the suspects had escaped.”
He, however, stated that unfortunately for the gangsters, two of their victims, Hajiya Zainab Gata and Hajiya Mariam Abdullahi said that they could identify two of the robbery suspects and their residences in the neighbouring communities.
“In fact the first complainant, Hajiya Zainab Gata specifically reported to the Police, saying that she could identify one of the suspected men of the underworld, Mustapha Mohammed Jimoh, while the second complainant, Hajiya Mariam Abdullahi, also told us that she could identify another member of the gang, Stephen Andrew,” said the DPO.
Thereafter, he said that he and his men mobilised and swung into action by cordoning off the houses of the suspected robbery gang in the early hours of last Saturday, adding that the operation which lasted barely one hour led to the arrests of the three suspects.
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