SOME commercial motorcyclists, popularly known as Okada , operating in Okigwe, Imo State, have accosted some hoodlums and recovered N3 million they had allegedly dispossessed from a trader in the area. Their gallant action was given official recognition when the Special Assistant to Governor Rochas Okorocha on Security, Pastor Frank Onwumere, hosted them.
The leader of the group, Emeka Uzodinma, said a bank customer, who had gone to withdraw N3 million, was trailed by the hoodlums to a location where they forcefully snatched the bag containing the money. Immediately they were notified, their members rode on several machines in pursuit of the robbers and recovered the money.
In a similar vein, theMACROBUTTON HTMLDirect MACROBUTTON HTMLDirect Imo State Police Command, led by the Commissioner of Police, Taiwo Lakanu, arrested 88 suspects for various offences ranging from armed robbery, kidnapping, child-trafficking, among other vices. They have, subsequently, been paraded, preceding the processes of their arraignment in court.
Briefing journalists at the command’s headquarters in Owerri, Lakanu attributed the successes to the institution of “Operation Npkuchapu wipe out”, launched last year.
He disclosed that since September when it was launched, 16 victims have been rescued, adding that among the 88 arrested, 41 were alleged armed robbers, while 24 children trafficked were rescued.
