By BASSEY EFIONG, Uyo –
Operatives of the Akwa-Ibom State Police Command have arrested three suspected armed robbers linked to the killing of two police officers, a private security officer and a little boy at Tranquility Hotel in Nung Oku, Uyo.
The command’s spokesman, SP Odiko Macdon, who disclosed this at a news conference in Uyo on Friday, said that the suspects were traced to and arrested July 10 at Tantalizer Fast Food along Abak Road, while attempting to destroy another ATM machine.
SP Macdon said the the suspects had confessed to their involvement in the killings of the three persons and various ATM bank frauds where they stole no less than N26million as well as being involved in other crimes.
He said that the suspects also owned up to the attack on Jean Juliet Supermarket at Ikot Ekpene Road, where they killed a little boy.
He said that the suspects admitted that they were also responsible for the attack on Metropolitan Supermarket at Oron Road, the robbery at E-Plus mates at Atiku Abubakar Avenue, Uyo, and the murder of two policemen at Tranquility Hotel, Nung Oku.
“They were responsible for robbing Maya Restaurant at Two lanes where a private security man was killed and the robbery that took place at R&R Supermarket and the attack on a Sienna bus at Nwaniba, Uyo,” Macdon said.
The police spokesman also said that five car robbery suspects who specialised in armed robbery and car snatching were arrested by operatives of the Anti-robbery Squad.
Macdon said that the suspects were apprehended on July 18 at 1:00 p.m.
He said that the items recovered from them include; four locally-made pistols, four expended cartridges, one empty shell of AK-47 ammunition and a red Toyota Sienna car with registration number: MUS 797 GS.
The PPRO said that the command would arraign all the suspects in court after they would have concluded their investigations.
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