The Edo State Police Command has arrested an official of the Nigerian Navy, Ibrahim Adamu (25); and an operative of the Nigerian Correctional Service, Abdullahi Abdulwahab (26), over alleged car sn@tching and arm£d r%bbery.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, SP Chidi Nwabuzor, while parading the suspects on Tuesday, said the suspects were arrested in military uniforms in Ekpoma by operatives based on credible intel. He noted that the suspects had att@cked the driver of an unregistered C300 Mercedes Benz car in Sapele, Delta State and sn@tched the car from him. They also f%rced him to transfer N400,000 to their account. They were meant to take the car to Abuja and sell it but were arrested by the police in Ekpoma, Edo State.
“The suspects have made statements and claimed to be personnel of the Nigerian Navy and Correctional Service respectively,” Nwabuzor said.
Speaking with newsmen, Abdullahi, who was said to be a correctional service officer in Kaduna State, said Adamu invited him to Warri for the job, saying that was his first time taking part in a r%bbery.
Adamu, who was recruited into the Nigeria Navy in 2019, told newsmen that he was arrested for st£aling a Mercedes Benz C300 car in Delta State.
“I was recruited into the Navy in 2019. I worked in Lokoja, Kogi State before I was posted to Warri, Delta State. It was when I went on a course in Sapele that I made the plan to st£al a vehicle. After my course, Abdullahi came to visit me and I told him my plans, assuring him that we would make money and he agreed to join me,” he said.
