Ebubeagu Arrests 15 Suspected Criminals in Ebonyi

Ebubeagu security operatives have arrested 15 suspected hoodlums on Saturday for allegedly terrorising people of Abakaliki metropolis.

Speaking to journalists in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State capital, the Special Assistant to the Governor on Internal Security, Eze Ikechukwu Patrick said the suspects were arrested during a stop and search operation carried out by the Ebubeagu security outfit in various streets of Abakaliki metropolis

He said: “Those boys are the major suspects that are terrorizing the state and we apprehended them yesterday night with a locally made rifle.

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“You can see, we handed them over to the police for further investigation. They are fifteen in number but we still have others left, we took to the venue of the crime for investigation, we will equally hand them over to the police.

“We arrested some of them at Gariki the ‘burying ground’, while other ones are arrested at the centenary city. Noon of them are students. Most of them are cultists.

“We arrested some of them during our stop and search operations. There is peace already in Ebonyi since the arrest of the suspects.

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“They are the major Taliban’s that are disturbing the people of the state and we have peacefully handed them over to the police”