The Akwa Ibom State Police Command has arrested six suspected armed robbers and five persons involved in cultism in the state.
The state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Murtala Mani, said on Thursday that the men were picked up from different locations in the state through intelligence policing.
Mani, who spoke through the Police Public Relations Officer, Cordelia Nwawe, warned criminals to stay away from the state, saying that once they operated in Akwa Ibom, the long arms of the law would not spare them.
One of the suspected armed robbers, Emmanuel Effiom, who admitted to being among those using tricycle to rob residents, said he did not rob on the day the police arrested him. He explained that his friend was the one that tried to rob a prostitute at the Ewet Housing in Uyo.
He stated his friend, also a tricycle rider, had pointed a gun at a prostitute when policemen arrived at the scene and arrested them.
He said, “When my friend brought out the gun and pointed it at the lady, the patrol team came and asked what happened. The lady told them that we wanted to rob her.
“So, when the police asked where the gun was, the lady took the torchlight from the police and brought out the gun from where my friend had thrown it immediately he sighted the policemen. It was his action that led to our arrest.”
A suspected cultist, Idongesit Effiong, 21, from Nsit Ibom, who also claimed to be a student of a polytechnic in the state, said he was arrested for cultism.
He said, “But I have denounced cultism since 2015.
“I was arrested following a supremacy clash between my former group and another cult. As a former cultist, somebody mentioned my name.”
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