The Edo State Police Command on Friday paraded 102 suspected
criminals, cultists, kidnappers and hoodlums arrested in different parts of the
state.
The suspects were arrested for different offences across the
State, ranging from cultism, fraud, kidnapping, armed robbery and murder.
The State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Babatunde Kokumo, who
paraded the suspects before journalists at the Command headquarters in Benin,
advised criminally-minded persons to either repent or relocate to other places,
else, they would face the full wrath of the law.
He alleged that many of suspects who escaped from the long arms
of the law in neighbouring States, were caught in Edo following a crack down on
criminal hideout in the State.
Many of the suspects confessed to the crimes they were accused
of, and narrated their level of involvement in the crimes.
Among the suspects paraded was 14-year-old Anna Amos, who as
arrested last Wednesday, for the allegedly murder of 71-year-old Madam Helen
Adodo, a day before, by smasshing her head with a stone.
The teenage suspect who had lived with the septuagenarian for
about four years at Guobadia Street, in Benin, said some unseen spirit who
control her, told her to kill her victim.
Anna further disclosed that the occultic spirit sternly warned
her never to disclose that she was the one responsible for the death of her
victim.
Also paraded was 26-year-old Wisdom Olocha, an indigene who was
accused of capable of opening any locked door after knocking the door with a
ring strapped to his finger.
The suspect, who denied opening doors with with rings, however,
said he was arrested after breaking into a car and stole a woman’s bag..
Items
recovered from the various suspects include laptops, cellphones, undisclosed
amount of money, banned drugs, cutlasses, assorted sophisticated arms and
ammunitions and locally made cut-to-size guns.
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