By Ola ‘Kiya, Reporting
Delta State Commissioner of Police, CP Ari Muhammed Ali, has charged all Area Commanders, DPOs, Tactical Commanders and the Command Anticult Unit to identify cultists‘ hideouts, carry out continuous raids and arrest suspects for prosecution.
The charge is coming on the heels of 13 Aiye confraternity suspects arrested on February 24 during an initiation ceremony in a forest at Ukwu Nzu in the state by operatives of Issele-Uku Police Division.
In a statement made available to Stonix News by the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Bright Edafe, on Monday, operatives of the Delta State Police Command also rescued a kidnap victim.
According to him, the operatives also felled a robbery suspect, and recovered assorted arms and ammunition from criminals in Delta State.
He said on February 25, 2022 at 2:00p.m, operatives of ‘B’ Division Warri Patrol team, while acting on a tip-off, the police engaged a gang of robbers led by one wanted Getay in Warri in a gun duel.
Getay, Edafe said, subsequently sustained lethal injuries and died in a hospital while a cut-to-size double barrel gun, one live cartridge and two expended cartridges were recovered from the scene.
Edafe further disclosed that on February 24, at about 10:30p.m, operatives of Dragon 18 Patrol team while on routine stop-and-search duty along ECN/Otu-Jeremi Aladja road by Ewhrekekan junction, sighted a Mercedes Benz ML 350 and Lexus 350 parked by the road side.
On a close observation of the two vehicles, a kidnapped victim (name withheld) aged 62 years raised an alarm that he had been kidnapped.
The victim was eventually rescued by the patrol team and explained that he was kidnapped at about 6:50p.m on that day at the entrance of his gate in Afisere road, Ughelli.
The operatives, Edafe added, recovered one Mercedes Benz ML 350 black colour with Reg. No. EKY 964 DP belonging to the victim, and an AK47 magazine loaded with eight rounds of 7.62 ammunition.
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