Police Recover N8.9m From Robbers In A/Ibom

Police in Akwa Ibom says they have recovered the sum of N8.9 million from hoodlums who attacked and robbed the manager of a telecommunications company in Uyo.

The new police commissioner in the state, Mr Gabriel Achong, who disclosed this yesterday in Uyo at a press briefing, said the hoodlums armed with locally made pistols, robbed the manager of the company, who was on his way to a bank in Ikot Ekpene LGA to lodge the money, shot his driver on the leg during the operation and bolted with the cash.

He explained that the suspects, who used motorcycles for the operation, were chased by police detectives following a distressed call and succeeded in causing the robbers to abandon their loot and escaped into the bush with one of them carrying gun shot.

Achong said that the command also arrested over 37 suspected criminals involved in various crimes across the state in the past two months.

The crime of the suspects, according to him included attempted infanticide, vandalization, kidnappings, possession of fake currency and stolen vehicles.

He hinted that five children stolen from their parents were also rescued by the police and had been re-united with their parents.

The children stolen by gunmen and later rescued, the commissioner said, were between the age brackets of a day old and 13 years.