CITY NEWS Police arrest 3 robbery suspects, recover toy gun FCT taskforce to begin demolition in Nyanya-Karu next week

Policemen in Wuye have arrested three suspected robbers with a toy gun and a substance suspected to be Indian hemp.

The suspects were arrested Tuesday at about 1:15a.m. on Ruga Road, Wuye.

The FCT Police Command spokesperson, ASP Usen Omorodion, said the suspects were arrested by officers of the Anti-Crime Patrol team in Wuye divisional command.

He said, “The Samaila Ibrahim, suspects Abubakar Haruna and Yahaya Isah, all of no fix address, were apprehended on Ruga Road, Wuye. They were arrested in possession of a toy pistol, wrapped substance suspected to be Indian hemp, and charms purportedly used by them to rob and torment innocent people of the area.”

Omorodion said the FCT Commissioner of Police, Musa Kimo, has directed all area commanders, divisional police officers and heads of departments in the command to intensify efforts to make sure the FCT is crime free. The FCT ministerial task force team is set to begin the second phase of demolition along Nyanya-Karu- Jikwoyi- Karshi axis next week.

The Chairman of the Ministerial Task Team Major Gen. Emmanuel Nienge (rtd) stated this while briefing newsmen on the sensitization’s second phase in Abuja.

Nienge said having held series of meetings with the residents along that axis his team will prefer to carry out the process without the use of force.

“That is why we have taken the sensitization activities of the task force to the people themselves and which is considered as the most important part of this exercise,” he said.

He said those who may be affected by the demolition process are yam sellers, coffin sellers, traders, transporters and scavengers.

He however said during the sensitization process the taskforce and the victims had come to an agreement.

Nienge commended the people for their support and corporation with the ministerial task team as they have begun to comply with the directives given to them.