ABA-Soldiers attached to 144 Battalion, Asa, Ukwa West council area, Abia State, have reportedly arrested two robbers who are members of a gang terrorizing residents of  Aba.

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Vanguard gathered that the soldiers acting on a tip off recovered a Toyota Sports Utility Vehicle which the gunmen had snatched from the owner along Ehere road, Ogbor Hill. Two members of the gang were arrested while two others escaped.

The soldiers after conducting search on the SUV also recovered 3 pistols, live ammunition, a mobile phone, jewelleries and cash. A soldier at 144 Battalion who spoke on condition of anonymity further disclosed that the gang on interrogation confessed that they wanted to use the car for robbery and kidnap operations. The source explained that the soldiers could not gun down the fleeing members of the gang to avoid stray bullets hitting innocent members of the public. “The incident happened about 2pm along Ehere road, Ogbor Hill area. The woman was driving her kids home when the gunmen, using tricycle trailed her to Ehere road and double crossed her and asked her to come down from the car with her children.

“The woman immediately alerted her husband who went to the military guard post near Rowmay Hotel along Opobo road to report the matter. While the man was making report, he spotted the car passing. The soldiers swung into action, using the patrol vehicle to chase after them, but the hoodlums didn’t know that the soldiers were after them. “Luck however ran after the four occupants of the SUV when they got to Brass junction by Aba-Owerri road as they were stopped by the soldiers on patrol. The road is always busy at that time and the soldiers couldn’t shoot at them because of the traffic on the road. “When the soldiers searched the car, they saw a pistol hidden under the car carpet while the other two were on one of the seats and floor of the car. They said that they intended to use the car for a robbery operation that night.

“Investigation into the matter is still ongoing as we are trying to get at other members of the gang that are still at large,” the source said. Effort to confirm the arrest from the spokesman of the 14 Brigade, Ohafia, Major Major Oyegoke Gbadamosi, was unsuccessful, as at the time of filing this report.

Source; VANGUARDNGR.COM

Two suspects arrested with cannabis worth 250 million

Officers of Kwara state command of the Nigerian Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) are by and by investigating two presumes it captured regarding seizure of three tons of compacted cannabis esteemed at N250 million in the open market.

The Assistant authority tasks, coordinations and insight of the office, Emmanuel Dandi, talking at a question and answer session in ilorin yesterday said that the capture and seizure were affected on Thursday at about 11:30 pm at Okolowo region of the Ilorin city. He anyway said that one of the suspects gotten away capture. Dandi, who said that the compacted cannabis, also called conk, was transported in from Ghana through Togo and Republic of Benin, included that the capture and seizure were made conceivable by knowledge reports. He additionally said that captured people were distinguished as truck loaders, adding that examination was continuous to unwind individuals behind the importation. He noticed that the "Conspicuous repercussion of the cannabis discovering its way into Kwara state markets can't be over stressed. " The cannabis is compacted by machine and not a conventional one. It's foreign made. It came into Ilorin through one of numerous outskirts in the state. "The strategy for covering is that the cannabis was wrapped with utilized fabrics, cello taped and put inside sacks. The suspects carried the sacks into the nation through the outskirt in bits, utilizing little autos, which are stacked with merchandise, for example, rice.

"They later repackaged the sacks in trucks for dispersion. "Our quick concern is that the measure of the amount is removed the market. That is the reason we did the motorcade in scurry. NDLEA manager, who engaged government, good natured individuals and partners to aid coordinations, said that the organization was in desperate need of help with its activity to perform better. He likewise called for valuable data from individuals from the general population, to make work of its officers simpler, promising to treat all of data provided with privacy required. As 2019 general decisions move close, Dandi likewise spoke to guardians to see medicate issue as an aggregate one however not that of the NDLEA alone, saying that they should screen exercises of their wards.