The Operatives of the Inspector General of Police, ‘Intelligent Response Team (IGP’-IRT). headed by Tunji Disu, a Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) have arrested a 27-year-old suspected member of an armed robbery gang who reportedly robbed a family of the sum of N18m, some phones, and other items at Jos road in Keffi Nassarawa State in 2015.
According to Police sources, the robbery gang operated in Abuja and neighbouring states and had been on the watch list of the security forces for a very long time now.
It was gathered that the suspect, simply identified as Christian Clifford, who claimed to have stopped robbery, had twice escaped from the police and from the operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) and escaped with handcuffs.
The source disclosed that the suspect was arrested by a combined team of the Intelligent Response Team (IRT) on 22nd September this year at an undisclosed hotel in the Kubwa area of the nation’s capital territory.
According to the source, “in a confessional statement made to the police team after his arrest, the suspect opened up that he had robbed at different points in Abuja metropolis and Keffi in Nassarawa State and also that he had earlier jumped from a Police vehicle in one of his travails in Police net upon being taken to court for arraignment
“The suspect further claimed to be an indigene of Plateau State but was born in Takum, Taraba State, where his parents raised him and his siblings before he relocated to Abuja
“On the locations where he had robbed victims and perpetrated his nefarious activities, he said that he alongside three other gang members had robbed a family in Jos road Keffi, and one other house at Karu area of Abuja, where they stole a laptop and were later arrested
“The suspect said that he has stopped participating in armed robbery activities and that he is now a registered photographer at the National Centre for Women Development
“He also told the police that he escaped from the custody of the disbanded Special Anti – Robbery Squad (SARS), after a stolen phone was tracked to him and well claimed to have bought the phone in question from a friend, who he alleged introduced him to robbery, but the police investigations revealed that the phone and others were stolen during a robbery operation at the GSM Village, Wuse, Abuja.
Though the Force Public Relations Officer, FPRO, Frank Mba, a Commissioner of Police CP could not be easily reached for over the development, however, a very Senior Police Officer at the Force Headquarters Abuja who spoke with Tribune Online confirmed the apprehension, adding that concerted efforts were being made to track down other fleeing members of the robbery gang.
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